Rhetorical Analysis Of The Leviathan By Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes in his book The Leviathan stated “Our motives and actions are all based on internal bio-mechanical processes.” In other words, our actions for change are based off wants and needs. Cesar Chavez, labor union organization and a civil rights leader, uses juxtaposition all throughout his essay (published in a religious organizations’ magazine) to state the two methods of taking action, violent or non-violent. He writes his article in an introspective tone by using religion to advocate nonviolence. He uses aphorism to repudiate violent methods. All throughout his essay he uses juxtaposition to compel the audience the consequences for violent and the benefits for non violent methods. He states “When victory comes through

in his letter to Birmingham jail writes in an ironic style, he uses this to make an obvious point that people have been too blind to see. Chavez all throughout his essay he tries to enlighten people, he does this by using aphorism. He state “If we resort to violence then one of two things will happen: either the violence will be escalated and there will be many injuries and perhaps deaths on both sides.” Everyone knows that violence has that ripple effect yet he stresses this enough because despite various people have read and written papers about this, people still are blind of this concept, people still find violence as a better method. He even states “We advocate militant nonviolence as our means of achieving justice for our people, but we are not blind to the feelings of frustration, impatience and anger which seethe inside every farm worker.” In other words they say justice loud and clear to shield them from the pain they harvest inside. The author follows on and shifts his tone to a call to action stating “If we fail, there are those who will see violence as the shortcut to change.” When he says this he is acknowledging the fact that if their is no change it will have a dominos