Martin Luther King was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. 

 

2.     Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered what is commonly known as the "I have a dream" speech on Aug. 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The speech, which was partly improvised by King on the spot, started off with an observation that black people were still not free more than 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation and ended with the famous "I have a dream" section in which he hoped for a better future for all people. 

 

King's speech is considered by many to be one of the key defining moments of the civil rights movement. King's "I have a dream" speech moves chronologically through the history of black people in the United States. It begins by referring to the Africans who were brought to America as slaves and celebrates the Emancipation Proclamation, which set them free legally. 

 

He also believed in the "Beloved Community," a term first used by Josiah Royce. The term referred to his belief that all people should be able to have enough to eat, enough money to sustain themselves, and a roof above their heads. It also referred to how he valued love and peace rather than hate and war.

 

3.     The primary audience of the speech is lawmakers and citizens of the USA.
 The secondary audience is millions of the people who heard the speech over television, radio and recording.

 

4.     If we have to mention just one important theme of the text, it would be the call for the end of racism in the US. Because in 1963, 100 years after the abolishment of slavery, the black still don’t have equal rights with the white. They suffer segregation, police brutality and racism in general.

 

 

 

5.     Analysis 

 

The paragraph “But there is something …… bound our freedom” has a metaphor:  “Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.” He means that the black should not fight physically for their rights.  

We can see alliteration in L 44: “ dignity and discipline”. And an example of repetition in a phrase “We must” which is repeated 4 times and a phrase “Come to realize” repeated twice. We can see a parallel in lines 49-50: “their destiny is tied up with our destiny … that their freedom is bound to our freedom.” Finally an antithesis we can find in contrasting “physical force”  with “soul force”.