I have a dream of Martin Luther King Jr. and the movie Gandhi.

This paper will discuss the relationship between the Martin Luther King's speech “I have a dream” and the movie “Gandhi”, five decades ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we are gathered today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation blacks. I have a dream (I Have a Dream) is the popular name of the speech 's most famous Martin Luther King Jr. when he spoke eloquently of his powerful desire for a future in which people whose skin is black and white could coexist harmoniously and as equals. It is often considered one of the best speeches in history, and was in first place among the speeches of the twentieth century by scholars of rhetoric.

Widely acclaimed as a masterpiece of rhetoric, King's speech resembles the style of the sermon of a minister Baptist black. Appeals to iconic and widely respected sources as the Bible, and invokes the Declaration of Independence of the United States, the Emancipation Proclamation and the Constitution of the United States. Through the rhetorical device of allusion (defined by Campbell and Huxman (2003) as "indirect reference to our shared cultural heritage, as the Bible, mythology, Greek and Roman, or our history "), King makes use of phrases and language of important cultural texts for his own rhetorical purposes.

The movie Gandhi, starring Ben Kingsley, was about how a nation under poverty and control of the British was set free by a man using peace and religion. Because he refused to move to 3rd class, he was thrown off the train. This was one of the differences that Gandhi wanted to change. He wanted Indians to be treated equally. Indians in South Africa also had to carry passes for identification while other Europeans did not.

Gandhi's method to changing this was to publicize the burning of the passes, hold peaceful meetings, and strikes. But it was not easy. Gandhi and many of his supporters were fined, beaten, and thrown in jail. They did not provoke or attack the British and through their non-violent protests Gandhi achieved his goal and the law was changed. During his time in South Africa Gandhi met a Christian clergyman named Charlie who was one of his greatest allies and who understood that Muslims, Hindus, Jews, Christians, and British people are all the same.

Even though Gandhi achieved his goal in South Africa and ...