123 School Work

I have a dream

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  For this essay I have chosen to analyse one of the greatest and powerful speeches I have ever seen or read the "I have a dream" speech given by Martin Luther King Jr. on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC on August 28. 1963. Behind him was the statue of Abraham Lincoln sitting in his stone chair and in front of him the Washington Momument reflecting from the Reflecting Pool. The location of the speech was most probably chosen to emphazise the the lack of unity, which has promised to all Americans, whether black or white. This is the symbolic birthplace of the American nation. Maybe also a coincidence, but the Memorial has a painting of an angel freeing a slave painted on the ceiling.
  Starting from the first sentence, King gets into using symbols and metaphors. He says: "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation." May it be noted, that the Memorial also has the Gettysburg address engraved on the back wall behind Lincolns' statue, which starts with: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...