This fourteen minute speech of President John F. Kennedy has given a powerful appealed on Logos, Ethos, and Pathos to his audience. The main purpose of this speech is that the president wanted what is best for his country and full filling his fellow Americans dream.Here, the president presented his dream with great credibility using claim and support, as well as great encouragement and inspiration to America and the world that soon would be change.
The Inaugural Speech has a lot of meaning and purpose, but most essential the speech was to inform and inspired America society to help them get involved with their country. In additional, President Kennedy tried to unify American people together in order to achieve peace.President Kennedy made good use of the introduction by contrasting them when he talked about “an end, as well as a beginning - signifying renewal, as well as change”. He also comparing the rights and wrong when he mention “well or ill ' and “support any friend, oppose any foe”. President Kennedy made use of his word and know when he’s going to use it in an effectively way such as “that this hemisphere intends to remain the master of its own house.
” and “casting off the chains of poverty.There are also causing and effect which he using to makes it looks like it’s our responsibility that we should go to war, but other than that the structure was nicely done. John F. Kennedy use of logos in his speech was minimal compared to the use of pathos, and ethos. However, in some paragraphs he uses logos where he claims and uses it them effectively such as when he mention about freedom.
“To those new states whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge our word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merely to be replaced by a far more iron tyranny.We shall not always expect to find them supporting our view. But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom. ”( AmericanRhetoric. com). To retain freedom John F.
Kennedy wanted all the free nation to be united. By giving other nation to united together, John F. Kennedy believed that it would help prevent unite nations to become communism. John F.
Kenney also speaks of how we must not look at our differences but instead learn to solve our daily problems that are present in our societies.Next, John F. Kennedy explains about his best wishes for his audience by using ethos. President Kennedy had shown a great deal of trusts on ethos when Kennedy took oath as President of the United States. He knows he was prepared to do the job and therefore he said what he had said “For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago.
”( AmericanRhetoric. com). This tell the nations and fellow citizens that he sworn to take responsibility and follow the rules as the pervious President has had in the past.He also shows his credibility as a fellow citizen and President of the United States who needed supports not just by himself, but also the help of his people and together they could achieved their goals. In the statement that he mention “All this will not be finished in the first 100 days.
Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. ” (AmericanRhetoric. com). President Kennedy and his family were well known for their political with high morals and good characteristic.
So it was predictable that his speech was ethos. ( Parekh, Nilesh). He appeals to the audience with both moral personality and academic and also his moral perspective became clear when he discussed God and doing the “right” thing. “With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth and to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing here on earth God’s work must truly be our own.
”( AmericanRhetoric. com). Next, John F. Kennedy use of pathos, has caught the whole nation attention because of his strongly word use.By using the word “We. ” President Kennedy tried to engaged with the audience using pathos, Kennedy mention that “the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans -- born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.
(AmericanRhetoric. com)” Throughout the speech he uses emotionally words to draw in the American public and get them to connect with the topic.However, a sentence that was delivered to the audience with great enthusiasm by President Kennedy and surely cannot be compared “Ask not what your country can do for you but ask what you can do for your country. ”( AmericanRhetoric. com) This quote is so strong and powerful because it uses one of the strongest objects of emotion, The United States of America.
It speaks to every person who lives in America on a personal level. It is the use of which President Kennedy eloquently spoke in 1961 that made this speech so memorable, emotional, and meaningful. This essay was both powerful and affective.His purpose and dream was to stop the war, also to help improve the relations with the other nation and to gain respect and support from the nation. President Kennedy makes his speech an incredible persuasion to the people and citizen.
First, by making his audiences know that he could be trust and then engaging his audience by supporting. Second, his speech uses metaphor and language that makes it a memorable speech for the nation and American fellow. Lastly, his use of ethos, logos, and pathos makes it powerful and an effective piece of writing that soon would help change the world.
