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Rhetorical Analysis Essay
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KC 1Johnson KC
Prof. Timothy Galow
ENG-170A
1st November 2022 The vision of a compassionate and peaceful world Ten Zin Gyatso, enthroned as Dalai Lama (“Ocean-wide priest”) on December 10, 1989, in his
lecture “Philosophy of compassion” argues about the purpose of life for human beings and our
responsibilities as human beings. Throughout his lecture, The Dalai Lama portrays the nonviolent
method selected by Tibetans which had achieved peace in the face of Chinese communists' accusations
and supremacy over Tibet. In his critique of nonviolent action, Lama effectively triggers the World and
the Tibetans’ emotions through rhetorical devices, questions, and analogy to make them more receptive
to his criticism with logically supported scientific arguments. Besides, Dalai Lama's speech about the philosophy of compassion was the one he gave after
accepting the Nobel Prize in 1989. On the very day in Oslo, there was a presentation of his government’s
Five-Point Peace plan, which concludes a fairly dry address with a moving prayer” to dispel the misery of
the world.” However, Dalai Lama speaks again informally to Tibetans who are his target audiences and
are interested in his philosophy. He presented in deceptively simple declarative sentences. As he knows
his audiences are the Tibetans not only the philosophers that are present during the Nobel Prize
distribution day. He knows that the Tibetans who admire and follow his philosophy will for sure analyze
this lecture, which is why He is using simple declarative sentences to give commands or even emotions
about the way of being nonviolent.
Furthermore, Lama appeals to Tibetans for nonviolent campaign to end the Chinese domination
on Tibet through compassion a hook to grab Tibetans attention. Firstly, Lama starts his lecture with an
affectionate tone, asking the audience “what is the purpose of life for a human being? This hooks the
current readers ultimately toward him and makes his speech seem more productive for them to listen to
him. The main purpose behind using a question to hook the Tibetans is that he wants to tell how
significance happiness and satisfaction can be in one’s life. Here Lama seems smart because he knows
what the Tibetans want these days i.e., happiness and satisfaction. Here lama also uses vast numbers of
conjunctive adverbs (i.e., therefore) to show substitute translation between happiness and satisfaction.
His clear purpose was to show how compassion can turn into peace later in human life.
In fact, Lama tries to make his audience i.e., Tibetans active by frequently asking them series of
questions. Even though he questions his target audience, he him selves answers his own questions. He
interrogates audiences not because he wants answers from them, but the truth is he knows that making
audiences free can distract him as well as his audience from the main topic which he does not at that
moment. For instance, to demonstrate that he believes compassion and love are essential in life. Lama,
“what is compassion?” He frequently raises his questions to his audiences to have an active
environment. He himself gives his answer and try to clarify it using a simple and compound sentence to
make it as simple as it could. Lama is trying to use affiliation humor to create a bond with his target
audience, the Tibetans. The basic meaning of compassion is not just a feeling of closeness, or just a KC 2
feeling of pity, rather he thinks genuine compassion is some kind of determination and responsibility
which he claims as a level of compassion and love of life. There the core idea behind raising questions
about compassion is to show tranquility and inner strength of it in an interesting way.
Likewise, His lecture has neither any figurative language nor symbolism language, but emotional
appeals can be seemed by his questions about our life that grab attention toward him. There are many
examples throughout this lecture of Lama making an appeal to the Tibetans by asking rhetorical
questions to make an engaging environment and to gain audience attention. Lama asks, “what is my
purpose in life, what is my responsibility?” Here Lama is not expecting answers from others but just the
attention from the audience. Every question has its unique answers which seem appealing to audiences
as it connects our happiness to our life, which is absolutely true. His optimistic claims to his questions
like “weather I like it or not, I am on this planet, and it is far better to do something for humanity.” Every
claim relates to us today which seems declarative and meaningful to the Tibetans, which is why he has
good evidence to claim his lecture. The questions he asks about our lives seem to appeal to our
emotions, which is the best idea for any lecture to grab audience attention.
Actually, Lama relies heavily on pathos throughout his speech, as without it, he would be unable
to properly develop a strong bond between himself and his target audience, the Tibetans. Further in his
lecture, Lama has uses enormous amount of pathos to refers to one’s birth in this world. Lama
effectively makes appeals to pathos talking about human suffering with declarative simple sentences
which makes an emotional bridge with his audience. Although, his introduction part is full of hypophora
to make captivating environment with emotionally charged words that connect compassion and love.
Later, in the middle of this lecture, he tries comparisons about “the relationship between human nature
and love & compassion to emotionally connect to audience. As lama knows what people want, which
can clarify by this saying, “Every human wants happiness and satisfaction.” By doing so, he success on
putting his audience, i.e., the Tibetans into a certain frame of mind between his experiences and human
nature’s reality which connect compassion with love.
Furthermore, lama makes scientifically verifiable claims about human nature, so his audience
emotionally connects with his ideas. He utilizes the evidence of scientific studies on humans to
emotionally connected ( pathos) with the Tibetans by showing them a vivid picture of the reality of
compassion in life. For instance, he says that the fetus had feelings in mother’s womb which affect the
mother’s mental state. That the few weeks after birth are crucial for enlarging or healthy development
of baby’s brain. Here he began with the use of scientific evidence in his talk is the strongest use of
pathos, where this core idea is to make the audience believe that his lecture is true. Additionally, Lama
simply has an emotional appeal, taking the example of baby to reach his audience with pathos is a good
one. Throughout this, Lama builds an emotional bridge between the people who were there during that
day and himself. He shows the Tibetans that he understands his topic very well. The main idea of the
lama using intensive pathos is to put emotion in his statement to make a good bond between the
Tibetans & himself. In order to develop ethos or credibility, Lama must develop an emotional basis of
trust which he really done well by manipulating his audience through reality if human nature. In this section, we will discuss the ethos associated with the lama's background knowledge and
his credibility(ethos) as a compassionate person according to his assessment. He uses his own
experience to remind the audiences about the importance of the sense of universal responsibility.
Clearly at this moment lama has two target audience the people who were and the western world
people who believe in Gandhian and the Tibetans who believe in gradual or slow results. Here lama
claims about the importance of compassion, altruism seems controversial. The westerner audiences felt
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