Examples Of Ethos In Letter From Birmingham Jail
Ethos, Pathos & Logos in Dr. Martin Luther King's
"Letter from Birmingham Jail"
LOGOS
Logos is an appeal to our logic or reasoning. It is a presentation of the logical relationships between and the reasoning for a particular position. Simply stated, logos is the setting forth of the reasoning behind a position or action. In our scientific world, many times logos involves statistics. Dr. King appeals to our logic when he gives the reasoning for his statement "I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Klu Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice" (719). …show more content…
After these details, the accumulation of their experience and accompanying feelings, when Dr. King states, "then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait" (717), the logic of no longer waiting seems clear and an impossibility. The reader has vicariously felt and experienced the horrors of segregation. People are dying now. There is no time to wait. Now is the necessary time to act. Logos and pathos are not always separate but many times function together. When Dr. King states, "everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was 'legal' and everything that Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was 'illegal'" (719), we have a dual appeal. Dr. King, to support his reasoning that a legal act does not necessitate a just one, uses the historical example of Adolf Hitler to try to set clear the logic of his position. By comparing the situation of Hungarian freedom fighters, a situation that is likely to be known and viewed as an example of injustice, to his situation, Dr. King
"Letter from Birmingham Jail"
LOGOS
Logos is an appeal to our logic or reasoning. It is a presentation of the logical relationships between and the reasoning for a particular position. Simply stated, logos is the setting forth of the reasoning behind a position or action. In our scientific world, many times logos involves statistics. Dr. King appeals to our logic when he gives the reasoning for his statement "I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Klu Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice" (719). …show more content…
After these details, the accumulation of their experience and accompanying feelings, when Dr. King states, "then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait" (717), the logic of no longer waiting seems clear and an impossibility. The reader has vicariously felt and experienced the horrors of segregation. People are dying now. There is no time to wait. Now is the necessary time to act. Logos and pathos are not always separate but many times function together. When Dr. King states, "everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was 'legal' and everything that Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was 'illegal'" (719), we have a dual appeal. Dr. King, to support his reasoning that a legal act does not necessitate a just one, uses the historical example of Adolf Hitler to try to set clear the logic of his position. By comparing the situation of Hungarian freedom fighters, a situation that is likely to be known and viewed as an example of injustice, to his situation, Dr. King