-Paul Keating and Anwar Sadat Speech

Memorable speeches frame accepted (existing, dominant) historical narratives as

needing renewal to remain relevant.
1. Memorable speeches position their forum to critically evaluate (reflect,
assess) accepted narratives of their past (identity, communicating,
politics, issue)
2. Speeches sympathise (demonstrate awareness of the difficulties the forum
faces) with the predicament of the forum, but also challenge audience
members to strive for higher political and moral ideals.
3. Great speeches are empowering. While they do challenge their audience
to think and feel differently about the world. (Themselves, confliction
issue), great speeches provide the forum with the intellectual tools to do
so.
4.

Intro:
For speeches to become memorable, it is important that they are passionate and
insightful responses to the perceived injustice in the modern world. Memorable
speeches are passionate and insightful responses to perceived injustices in the
modern world. Anwar Sadats Speech to the Israeli Knesset and Paul Keatings
Redfern Speech are passionate as both position their forum in a manner which
allows them to critically assess accepted narratives of their political past. Both
speakers address the concerns of kairos, the universal values regarding their
political background and demand action from the intended audience which
successfully makes their speeches passionate and insightful responses to the
perceived injustices of their past.

Body 1: Kairos- What he aims to achieve- peace both sadat and keating
Passionate and insightful speeches can become memorable when they
successfully address the exigencies of their context. Both Sadat and Keating
explore the humanitarian and political exigencies within their contexts to position
their forum to carefully reflect on the accepted narrative of their national past.
Sadats speech to the Israeli Knesset aimed to end the geopolitical war between
Israel and Arab nations and allow for peace between both countries. Sadat
addresses the concerns of his kairos, leading up to the day of the speech both
seeking to make things right for life and accept the mistakes made in the past.
Sadat seeks out on a mission to establish peace with Israel in a time of political
discourse by personally travelling to Israel to make this speech about the
geopolitical conflict going on between the two countries. This was a momentous
decision by Sadat as he opposed the political values of other arab leaders and
promotes peace through means other than war. Through this, sadat establishes
himself as a poltical world leader striving for peace. He starts off his speech with
the unifying symbol of god as both these countries are heavily religious. He
explores the idea of peace based on justice by creating a powerful religious
paradigm to promote the significance of god in these two different cultures. He
emphasises on the responsibility of a leader, and thus his responsibility through
the use of anaphora motivated by all these factors but also allows the
audience to consider the arguments through the use of anaphora in let us be
frank. The religious allusions later on we all, Muslims, Christians, Jews, worship
God and no one but God depicts the segregation between his forum due to
religion and culture. He begins his speech with In the name of God, the Gracious
and the Merciful as a way to remind his audience of the commonalities between
them, that they all worship a god, and this becomes Sadats support to unite his
forum (the people of Egypt and Israel) together.
Keatings Redfern speech also successfully addresses the concerns of his kairos
and takes blame for all the wrong done in the past to the indigenous Australians.
His speech written in response to the widespread hysteria which resulted from
the Mabo v Queensland case for Indigenous land rights and presented in Redfern,
a place which holds a lot of cultural meaning for the Indigenous Australians due
to its history. Keating uses his power as the Prime Minister of a country with a
dark past to reconcile with the Indigenous population which was very wrongly
mistreated. He uses his politically strong position to be the first Australian Prime
Minister to take blame for the actions of the European settlers and recognising
the guilt and acknowledging it. The use of inclusive language and the dichotomy
used in We non-aboriginal Australian should perhaps remind ourselves that
Australia once reached out for us. It shows the Prime minister compare we the
Australians and compares it to them the indigenous community of Australians.
Keating utilises the literary trope of anaphora in Imagine if we were told in
history books that we had given up without a fight imagine if our spiritual life
was denied. The use of anaphora appeals to pathos and emotionally compels
the audience to open their hearts a bit as he depicts the injustices the
Indigenous population has faced. Although Keatings direct forum is the
aboriginals present while hes presenting his speech, Keating is actually talking
to the rest of Australia as an indirect forum as the speech is being recorded and
broadcasted live all across the nation. Both Keating and Sadat try to take
responsibility of the injustices and violent history of their country, especially as
they are the political leaders of their nation, and need to fix it by presenting
these speeches.
Body two: universal values- how they want to achieve it
Universal values can be a catalyst to making a speech memorable, as the forum
will always engage with and understand these values to due their universal
nature. Sadat and Keating both appeal to pathos and ethos by the constant
reference to the universal values of justice, peace, humanity and the national
identity of their country to create a dramatic emphasis and causes their forum to
rethink about the injustices, making it become insightful. Sadat talks about the
effects of the war between the two nations. The descriptive imagery within
innocent children and every child born on the land. He uses this to refer to a
symbol of new life, the innocence of children, which he then implies that he
wants for the nations and wants a fresh start. Sadat uses this to appeal to ethos
and continually reminds his forum about the effect war can have on the
population.

Keating universal values:

Keating also appeals to the same universal values as Sadat for the Indigenous
community and Keating is passionate about the injustices the aboriginals have
gone through and therefore has presented this memorable speech in a place of
great historical significance for the indigenous society. He utilises the literary
trope of anaphora in the constant repetition of we in We took the traditional
the traditional lands .. we brought the diseaseswe committed the murders
we took the children. He appeals to the universal values and the inclusiveness
of the we makes his indirect forum rethink about the events which occurred in
Australian history and who was really at fault, making it insightful. Keating
appeals to pathos with the high modality present in the phrase they are there in
the Australian legend.. We should never forget they have helped build this
nation. He makes this an insightful response to the injustices and continuously
appeals to emotional values which are shared by both White Saxo Anglo
Australians and Indigenous. He gets the audience to imagine' themselves in the
position of the Aboriginals mistreated with the anaphoric repetition of imagine if
we had resisted this settlement.. imagine ifimagine ifimagine if we had
suffered the injustice and then were blamed for it. This makes Keatings speech
an insightful response as it makes his forum rethink about the events which
unfolded in Australias history.