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Language is a powerful weapon, and in the hands of a skilled person, it can be used to manipulate others. This is a theme of William Shakespeare’s writing. In his stories characters speak very skillfully and can manipulate other people easily. Characters speak in front of a crowd and are able to make them think what they want them to think. This is a very powerful weapon because you can gain the trust and loyalty of many and make them do as you please. Brutus was persuaded to kill Julius Caesar, one of his best friends. This kind of manipulation is dangerous in the wrong hands. The ability to turn an wntire town against you like Antony did to the conspiracy’s members. They were forced to leave their city in fear of an attack from the people that used to love them and honor them.
In real life this kind of skill in language is also present. Hitler was very good at speaking in front of crowds. His ability to reach the masses is unique and remarkable, fitting no organizational scheme or dogma. It would be ridiculous to think he attended some sort of speaker school; he is a rhetorical genius who developed his own abilities with no help from anyone else. One cannot imagine that Hitler ever spoke differently than he does today, or that he will ever speak differently. He speaks his heart, and therefore reaches the hearts of those who hear him. He has the amazing gift of sensing what is in the air. He has the ability to express things so clearly, logically and directly that listeners are convinced that that is what they have always thought themselves. That is the true secret of the effectiveness of Adolf Hitler's speeches. Hitler is neither a speaker from reason nor from the heart. He uses both, depending on the needs of the moment. The essential characteristics of his speeches to the people are: clear organization, irrefutable logical reasoning, simplicity and clarity of expression, razor-sharp dialectic, a developed and sure instinct for the masses and their...