HItler's Battle

Burke analyzes the Hitler’s powerful use of rhetoric to direct the attention of his audience in such a way that their ignorance combined with openness to his words allowed him to use well crafted speeches to make the public understand something in a way that was conducive to Hitler’s plan for power. One way Hitler does this is to direct attention towards the problems in Germany, such as economic strife, and once he had constructed a sympathetic frame, convince the people that has was the “cure” for this “disease”. (Burke, 193) Hitler thrived on textbook racism by asserting superiority over the Jews, that they are “different” that they are not like the rest of the Germans and thus a divide was struck and power was in his hands.

Burke, Kenneth. “The Rhetoric of Hitler’s ‘Battle’.” In The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic Action, Third Edition. Berkeley: U of California P, 1973. 191-211.