Yes, but you still have to write me an essay.
Sadat, Deane and Keating all speak about unity in various forms.
How do they do this and why would their speeches have been convincing to both their intended audiences and modern audiences? (900 words)
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For the purposes of this question, discuss each speech in order (whichever order you like). While your essay in Week 5 will need more sophistication, we will tackle the structure of this in latter weeks.
This is to be completed in the double period on Wednesday, though you may like to start thinking about your content or similarities/differences in each speech.
M
This is my section of the essay on Sadat. I'm still finishing Deane and Keating but I thought it might be good to put this up so you know i DID do work.
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Anwar Sadat risked his life greatly to make his speech to what would have been a hostile Knesset. His direct approach and great respect shown to those present make him stand out as one of the great orators of the 20th century who could embody the thoughts of many to be discursive and deplore the acrimony that had happened between the people he represented and the Israelis.
Just after he began his speech, Sadat said “We all on this land, the land of God, we all Muslims, Christians and Jews worship God and no one but God,” implying that they are all quite similar as they all worship god, even if they may have different names for him. Inclusive language and repetition are used to unify the different groups and encourage them to work as one, not just for the benefit of a lone nation but for the benefit of the Muslims, Jews and Christians irrespective of whether they are Egyptian, Israeli or Palestinian.
“It is not my battle alone, nor is it the battle of leadership in Israel alone. It is the battle of all,” is a way of saying that without a unification of everyone or a majority, the battle will continue. Sadat tries to encourage them to think of the barriers as only psychological, and that they can have peace once they are torn down. This idea of things being psychological is carried far by Sadat as he attempts to convey that his actions are honest and so should those of the audience in the Knesset, “Let us be frank… motivated by all these factors.” This repetition of “us” and being motivated by his previous points which are enumerated send the message that what he is saying is factual and from the heart, much like how Sir William Deane spoke at an ecumenical service for a canyoning tragedy in which many young Australians died.
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Well done, Dan! There is a lot of good work in here and you should be proud. There needs to be a little tightening of expression but you have got the main gist of the purpose of the question I set.
ReplyDeleteThere is also another way to introduce quotations and techniques that should make your essay sound a little more academic and sophisticated.
We'll scratch the surface of this idea in class next week...
Well done again!
M
My introduction
ReplyDeleteTrue unity is to amalgamate the weak and the strong, collaborating every individuals aspirations and ambitions to subdue the common cause they all share. Sadat’s intention to unify and nullify the dark bloody pandemonium in the Middle East between Egypt and Israel is ultimately to relinquish once and for all the “wall of fear” between these two internecine governments. Deane’s propitious nature brings closure to the innocence lost at the canyoning accident which led fourteen Australian youth to their demise; Deane unifies all Australians to reconcile the terrible loss to the families, friends and nation from the draconian tragedy which occurred on foreign soil. Keating’s retro diction on the unknown solider reconciles that we have not forgotten our past; Keating unifies all Australians with an identity of benevolence to the heroes in the war time as the unknown solider is symbolised “He is all of them, And he is one of us.” These speakers all unite the intended audiences with their aspirations and ambitions leaving the thesis to be understood, absorbed and appreciated by modern audiences today due to how it affected the past to morph the present.
It's a shame I have to post my intro after Chris' intro, a hard act to follow indeed.
ReplyDeleteUnity of a nation is a great feat for any people, and even more so if the sense of unity transcends nations. This view is clearly echoed by Tolstoy as he once said; “Unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries.” Anwar Sadat’s ‘Statement to the Knesset’, Paul Keating’s ‘Funeral Service of the Unknown Australian Soldier’ and Sir William Deane all employ various literary devices in order to instigate the notion of unity. Keating’s eulogy unifies Australia through the symbolism of the ‘Unknown Soldier’ in lieu of the thousands of “men and women who laid down their lives for Australia.” Similarly Deane, through the shared sense of loss, accomplishes a level of unity which is, remarkably, echoed by Switzerland. Anwar Sadat however, goes one step further, he almost incongruously appeals to the epitome of the once adversary, the Israeli Knesset and his plea for equality and peace brings about a sense of, although short-lived, unity. The amalgamation of the three speeches allows the modern audience a perspective with which the original audiences did not possess, it therefore stands to reason that such an audience would respond in a somewhat different manner to the original audiences, and indeed, this is the case.
missed a bit
ReplyDeleteThe primary theme of Margaret Atwood’s speech is the stasis, and subsequent genre, of dialectic reality. It could be said that in Spotty-Handed Villainesses, Atwood deconstructs the precapitalist paradigm of expression; in The Last Words of Dutch Schultz, however, he affirms Debordist situation. The subject is interpolated into a precapitalist paradigm of expression that includes art as a paradox.
“Society is part of the paradigm of consciousness,” says Baudrillard. Thus, if Sartreist existentialism holds, we have to choose between pretextual dematerialism and conceptualist feminism. Several narratives concerning Debordist situation exist.
But Drucker suggests that we have to choose between subcapitalist deappropriation and dialectic feminism. The subject is contextualised into a precapitalist paradigm of expression that includes narrativity as a reality.
Thus, Debordist situation holds that narrative is created by the masses, but only if art is distinct from consciousness. An abundance of theories concerning the role of the poet as observer may be discovered
In a sense, Debord uses the term ‘the prematerialist paradigm of context’ to denote a mythopoetical paradox. The subject is interpolated into a precapitalist paradigm of expression that includes reality as a reality.
yeah Chris great intro mate
ReplyDeleteSeriously, how cool is Sadat.
ReplyDeletegday lads
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