A Comparison of Dr. King's I Have a Dream Speech
and Mandela's Glory and Hope Speech
by Barry Wright
Essay: A Comparison of Dr. King's I Have a Dream Speech and Mandela's Glory and Hope Speech
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I Have a Dream and Glory and Hope were two speeches given, respectively, by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and
Nelson Mandela at times of great need, at times when ignorance and racially-based hubris intertwined themselves
in the sparse gaps of human understanding. At first glance, the facets of humanity and blanket tranquillity seem to
be in natural accord. Philosophers have struggled with the reason behind the absolute absence of peace as
everybody, by definitions both classical and modern, longs for peace, conflict arrives from the disagreement on
how to obtain it. The speeches I Have a Dream are similar both linguistically and structurally in that both speakers
apply strong emotional appeal to support their propositions of freedom, justice, and social equality.
From the steps of the Lincoln Memorial before more than 200,000 Americans on August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. provoked the original notions of American ideals with his cardinal I Have a Dream speech. Though
his prompting egalitarian reasoning, King pushed the definition and perception of human rights to then
impractical limits in a most diplomatic and affable manner. Who would suppose that 1994, nearly thirty years later,
the dispute of racial equivalence would be addressed by Nelson Mandela at his swearing-in ceremony in the face
of the South African apartheid. The belief of both men, Mandela and King, can be summarised in a mantra
proposed within both speeches: let freedom ring.
Each speech demonstrate a unique way of articulating what they want to express while maintaining separate and
distinct choices of what literary techniques are effective and which are not. The most prevalent rhetorical device
within I Have a Dream is anaphora, the repetition of a seq...