Speech_Essay-_Keating_Aung_San_Suu_Kyi

Speech Essay Keating in his speech,”The Unknown Soldier”, has been successful in getting the audience involved in the speech. This is achieved by the repetition of “the unknown soldier” throughout the speech and at the end the “unknown soldier” is now known. Keating also invokes the audiences participation through the sad tone and the language used, as the purpose is simple and elegant. The one line intro is very effective in gaining the audience's attention, it manifests a sense of unity in the audience. Keating's next paragraph uses the repetition of “we do not know” five times followed with the slight variation “we will never know”. Keating is very clever here as this repetition starts off subtle and builds up to a climax. This emotional build plays on the audience and forces them to sympathise with the families who have lost loved ones during the war. Keating has now got the whole audience mesmerised just after the intro of the speech and this allows myself to appreciate what a great speech maker he is. In the following paragraph Keating again uses repetition, “one of the”, however this time he also uses statistics from WW1. This paragraph is used to flow on from the previous and again makes the audience empathise with the lost one's families. This section ends with one line “he is all of them. And he is one of us”. The inclusive tone is used again to reinforce the intro, to unite the audience as one. It also links the audience to the 100000 Australians that have died fighting for this country and lures people into wanting to hear more of the speech, which again lets me appreciate how effective Keating's speech is so far. Keating has been poetic in describing what the war was truly like. He uses imagery and emotive language, “mad, brutal, awful struggle...waste of human life” to paint a clear picture for the audience about the horrors of war. This then reiterates the recurring idea of honouring he memory of all those who have died defending our nation. Keating has also been successful at using procatalepsis at the end of this paragraph. He states that “we might think this unknown soldier died in vain”, which is what a lot of people would of thought as this war was pointless and it ended up planting the seed for the second world war. As Keating has anticipated this criticism he can answer that the war did not result in just another war, that a lesson came out of it. “It was a lesson about ordinary people-and the lesson was that they were not ordinary”. Keating shows that the “soldiers, sailors, and nurses”, are the real heroes, “not the generals and the politicians”. Here Keating has built an image of an ordinary person who served his country, by using the paradox of the two ordinaries, which in turn invokes the audience's patriotism as well as his own. Keating through his inclusive language, plus his formal, sombre and reflective tone, has been pivotal in honing the ideas of mate-ship, the “ordinary” people, patriotism and democracy in the direction of the audience. It is through the Unknown Soldier that i increases the awareness of the audience that thousands of Australians went to war to die for “his country and his King”. Keating leaves the audience with the hope that this soldier may symbolise peace, to avoid waste of life from war. Aung San Suu Kyi's speech is about fighting for women's rights. Suu Kyi uses non-academic language with pronouns to try and persuade the audience to side with her argument. In the intro she makes out this speech to be a positive opportunity however still challenging at the same time, “wonderful but daunting task”. At the end of the this paragraph Suu Kyi states, “I want to try and voice some of the common hopes”. From the audience's perspective it seems that Suu Kyi feels humiliated. This is the case as women right's are not highly regarded and for Suu Kyi to stand up for these right's it is very courageous of her. In doing this it makes me appreciate how brave Suu Kyi is and it a great way to lull people into believing her. Suu Kyi incorporates various powerful techniques throughout her speech, which in turn manipulate the audience to accept her view and allows myself to see how well Suu Kyi has constructed this speech. Suu Kyi refers to her home country religion of Buddhism by stating an old Burmese proverb, “The dawn rises only when the rooster crows”. She follows this by contrasting light and dark. The message Suu Kyi is trying to convey here is that women “have done much to dissipate the darkness of intolerance and hate, suffering and despair” of the world and that they deserve to be treated equally as men. Suu Kyi influences her audience into seeing that talking is instrumental if women and men are going to put aside their differences. She achieves this by implementing the cliché, “women talk too much” and reinforces this with procatalepsis by using two rhetorical questions to answer the cliché. Suu Kyi strengthens he argument about the importance of talking by using the religious allusion referring to buddhism as she states, “the Lord Buddha, who did not want human beings to live in silence”. The audience can clearly see that buddhism supports the idea of talking to solve an issue. Another aspect of Suu Kyi's speech that contributes to making its construction effective is that her argument is backed up with conclusive evidence. As a result the audience is inspired to believe Suu Kyi's message she is trying to portray. In the speech Suu Kyi uses facts and figures, “14 out of the 485 MP's elected in 1990 were women”, to illustrate the lack of participation of women in politics in her country. This statement is used to consolidate her argument that women deserve to be treated equally by pointing out the inequality of women rights in her country. The conclusion to Suu Kyi's speech delivers a strong message to the audience. The message is that e still have a lot to learn and that women have the ability to acquire more knowledge. The audience can see that Suu Kyi is trying to make out that in order for our world to move forward that women must be given the opportunity to do more. Suu Kyi ends on a personal note by thanking everyone listening to her speech on behalf of all the women in the world. By ending this way it portrays the imagery of women suffering from the injustice of men's past actions which in turn forces the audience to feel sympathy for these women, and lets me see the magnitude that Suu Kyi's speech has achieved.