George S. Patton's Speech vs Sergeant Hartman's Speech

 The general style of Patton's speech with its "bullshit"s and "son of a bitch"s closely resembled the rhetoric of Hartman's speech. However, there are a number of vast differences between the two men's speeches. The agenda of Patton's speech is to persuade the American soldiers to suppress their natural fears of death and to persuade them to fight for their country as true patriots should. Sergeant Hartman's agenda was to make real soldiers out of mere civilians. Therefore, Hartman's speech is generally more lighthearted in nature than that of General Patton, because Hartman treated the soldiers more as an exceptionally strict father figure that wants to instill military values in his sons; whereas, on the other hand, Patton spoke to the GI's as a military commander with much experience in the bloody business of war. Patton took on more of a salesperson role in trying to convince his audience of his point of view by using a number of rhetorical devices. First of all, he addressed his audience as an equal by using simple words and sentence structures. He also employed the redundancy principle by repeating the word 'America" or "Americans" eight times in the span of one short paragraph. He also stated one main counter-argument that his audience might have and dispelled it. Overall, Patton was a very gifted speaker.