Copy - Elizabeth Speech

Queen Elizabeth 1Tilbury Speech

By Maddie + Rachel

07 / 10 / 24

Context!!

• The year of 1588
• Queen Elizabeth's reign
• At war with spain
• Speech was delivered to troops at Tilbury Fort

How is Elizabeth's speech so effective?

Introduction

Analysis

• "My loving people"
• Vocative
• 'a word or word combination denoting a person (or a subject) to whom (or to which) the speech is addressed'
• Direct Adress
• audience makes the pragmatic assumption they are 'her' people
• Unequal encounter

- Power Behind discourseNorman Fairclough

"I know i have the body of a weak feeble woman"

• Face saving act - Goffman's Face Theory - addresses the controversy of a woman reigning
• Convergence with audience - doesn't have as much power as a king would

"I have the heart and stomach of a king"

• Declarative
• Rhetoric - Aristotle - Ethos
• Persuade soldiers she is still brave and worthy of ruling and winning a war
• Metaphor for her capability as a ruler

• Figurative language - Symbloism of blood - represent blood shed during battle, connotations of pain and toil
• Shows the troops devotion - willing to hurt and die for them - persuasive
• "My" repetition - power in discourse - her responsiblility to look after

" lay down for my God, and for my kingdom, and my people, my honour and my blood, even in the dust "

"I will fight for my country"

• Patriotic Imagry in the intrasative verb 'fight' - connotations of hardship, battle, honour and bravery
• Declarative
• Modal verb 'will' indicates a promise that won't be broken to stand up for her country

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