Adam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcvjoWOwnn4&NR=1 1. The purpose of the speech is to persuade the soldiers and the people of the country to not withstand tyrants. Charlie Chaplin conveys through the speech that dictators enslave the people and how greed has deteriorated the minds of man into machines.

2. In this speech the immediate audience is the people in the crowd before him such as the soldiers and the nation’s people. Also in Chaplin’s movie he is addressing you the viewer. He is purposefully doing this to leave the viewer with the lasting impression that freedom and equality will eventually take rise and that dictators die.

3. Chaplin’s main appeal is pathos. He draws upon the emotions of his audience the importance of vanquishing dictators and hate. He inspires the audience to help other men, to stand for freedom and equality, and to advocate for humanity in every-way, shape, or form.

4. Chaplin’s argument is very strong by speaking out against the horrors of tyranny and oppression and the hope with which man can achieve through the thirst for knowledge and understanding. I would have to say that Chaplin used False Dilemma for the most part. He establishes that there is only darkness in a dictatorship and that freedom will eventually rise up in revolt but these things may not be true since he only says that Humans are loving caring creatures but yet we kill and lie and cheat and steal.

5. His argument could have been better had he focused more on one thought besides expanding out to cover more a more broader issue. He possibly could have used a more logical appeal with his emotion to really drive home his argument.