During MLK’s legendary speech the audience is able to pull the dramatic purpose and the array of powerful intended audience members. MLK is able to attract important political influences at the time by evoking the image of how corrupt our society is and how, “we reuse to believe that the bank of injustice is bankrupt.” He is reminding the reader of the idea of how flabbergasted society is to see these leaders who believe that our society is not suffering. Furthermore, he is also mimicking the religious individuals by the use of ethos in his speech. He mentions at the end, “we will be able to speed up the day when all God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, protestants and Christians, will be able to join hands…” This enhances of the mood of religion in his speech thus ringing in the people of people and emotionally ties them to his speech. The overarching purpose of this is is to represent the movement that one day see an America where are colours are accepted, where it will be free and the future generations will be able to live in peace. This will re-enforce the context because it will ultimately effect the way he uses language and was he choses to include. His attended audience will also be a major factor that will affect the context because who is planning on attracting, he will write a different way an use different language.
MLK’s unforgettable speech was no doubt influential to the American people and that was all set by his style and structure. In his speech he uses phrases like “Let freedom ring!” “Now it is time to lift our nation…” “I have a dream”. There are all phrases that stress the effect of a call-to-action, and the style is what helped develop his context. He also uses many inclusive terms such as “we” and “us” to help further develop his structure and convey the impression of his context. He also carries the tone of hope in his style, a hope that America will be inclusive and successful. He started off his speech by drawing in the reader and capturing their attention. He did this by mentioning straight from the start what this speech will do. “This will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.”
