肯尼迪就职演说背景

肯尼迪就职演说背景

【篇一：肯尼迪就职演讲背景分析 the background

meaning in john f.kennedy inaugural address】

the background meaning in john f. kennedy?s inaugural address 摘要:肯尼迪是美国历史上最年轻的总统,他的当选代表了二

战后的年轻主张.肯

尼迪的就职演讲被认为是美国总统就职演讲中最为精彩的篇章之一,

其语言简明、结构巧妙, 内容也反映了当时的政治，文化，社会背景，值得我们探究学习。

关键词:就职演讲;权利;核力量.

abstract: kennedy was the youngest person elected u.s. president .his presidency

came to represent the america youthful idealism in the aftermath of world war ii. and kennedy?s address was considered as one of the most wonderful in american history, the words in it is short, well-organized, inflected the political, culture, social background, and his sentences were worthing study.

key words: inaugural address; rights; nuclear power.

president kennedy was an excellent speaker and writer; kennedys speech object is global ，does not only aimed at the american citizen, moreover in view of international judgment.

he applied various historics. such as, alleles, repetition, alliteration, antithesis, metaphor, synecdoche. and he used the first person, let people in the same standpoint, feel comfortable, so make it easy to win their support. he aroused americans sense of pride and responsibility, enabled the speech having strong sedition .in his address, we can learn the political, social, cultural situations at that moment; appreciate the art of his language.

1.kennedy?s victory is all the people?s victory.

“we observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of

freedom--symbolizing an end, as well as a

beginning--signifying renewal, as well as

change…”(张汉熙,1995,51-56)

kennedy emphasized that he become the

president of america is not only a victory of a party but also embody the celebration of freedom. it symbolizing a new start , which fulfill hope, freedom. equal rights. it is also the victory of all the american people and the human rights career.

2.the new generations advocate freedom, equal rights and peace.

“…we dare not forget today that we are the heir s of that first revolution. let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of americans--born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage--and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing

of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world…”(张汉熙,1995,51-56)

some americans proudly called the 1950s the placid decade. the united states had made huge profits in the second world war... as a result, the post-war years saw a degree of

prosperity of capitalist economy. the relation between capital and labor became less intense.( 狄红秋,2008;209-211)there was a relative peace. as to the new generation ,few of they have been influenced by the old doctrine of pre-world war，they witness the tragedy of war and the power of the nucleus. americans are free—free to express to create, and ideally, to solve problems, and expect to make the world a better place. they rose with a respect, recognition for and expectation of continued freedom; they have immense freedom and their ancient people fought to have freedom.

3. diplomacy policy and nuclear power at kennedy?s times.

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finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction...but neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course--both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance