Analysis#1

 

The King Naresuan

On the YouTube, it is a movie based on Thai History, directed a film by Mom Chao Chatree Yu Kon.  This movie splits in four sections, but I would bring the second section which name is “To Proclaim Peach”.  The year 1674, Princes Maha Hrnrnamrnrcha was promoted as the king of Ayutthaya, then inherit to Mahin who pleased make it succeed to the throne reign of King Naresuan to govern the city of Phitsanulok.  In Myanmar, after the rain God died, relationship between Thailand and Myanmar became shaking.  Moreover, King Naresuan was surprisingly ambushed.  Thus, he took this opportunity to proclaim peach to and broke off diplomatic with Myanmar.

In this scene, he is proclaiming in front of troops by giving speech that Thai people should be in peach to his people and people from the other side who want to join him.  The king used Gorgias’s epideictic or praise rhetoric speech attempt to defend the enemy.  He also used a literary tradition of blame on the enemy that “the king of Hongsawadee does not stand with honesty, friendship, kingsmanship, or tradition.  He acts dishonesty attempting to bring danger up on us.  From now onwards, the kingdoms of Ayutthaya and Hongsawadee will be separated until the end of time.”  When the enemy which has been superior becomes weak, a country which has been a prisoner becomes mature.  To the point of Gorgias, the stronger is not hindered by the weak, but the weak must be ruled by the stronger.  Moreover, the stronger must lead the weaker to follow (39).  I think he tries to persuade his people to trust on him that he is going to bring freedom to them.  It seems to me that he is inviting his people to fight with him, and die with him.  According to Aristotle’s From on Rhetoric noted that “(There is persuasion) through character whenever the speech is spoken in such a way as to make the speaker worthy of credence; for we believe fair-minded people to a greater extent and more quickly (than we do other), on all subjects in general and completely so in cases there is not exact from a previous opinion that the speaker is a certain kind of person; (115).  His own characteristic its self makes people trust because his tone, his personality, and his reputation of war. 

In the scene presents the power of persuasion.  This situation has impact on the future, and it is in the line with Aristotle’s Logos of deliberative.  He proclaims peach at this moment, he can or cannot overcome the enemy.  He or she may die in the war, die a martyr, but he or she trusts and believe in him.  Moreover, the idea of sublime is important on this scene.  At one point the country had been captured, and people had no freedom.  One day, their king proclaims to get back to his own country, to be free.  This freedom and peach must exchange with many people’s lives.

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Works cited

The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.
W.W. Norton & Company; Second Edition. New York, 2001. Print.