Analysing the representation of speech: Texts A and B are both similar texts in that they have the same purpose to try and change peoples views on animal rights.
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AS English Language and Literature Assignment 5 – Analysing the representation of speech: comparison Texts A and B are both similar texts in that they have the same purpose – to try and change peoples’ views on animal rights. However, the ideas are conveyed in two different styles. In text A, Brigitte Bardot demonstrates the reality of how many animals are treated these days. The text is written in a serious manner and the author gets straight to the point by using very strong, vivid vocabulary which is shown in the first sentence: ‘Who has given Man (a word which has tragically lost all its humanity) the right to exterminate, to dismember, to cut up, to slaughter, to hunt, to chase, to trap, to lock up, to martyr, to enslave and to torture the animals?’ Here she uses a continuation of descriptive verbs which attracts the readers attention and shows them just a few of the many ways animals are treated. Brigitte Bardot is fighting for equality between humans and animals so that the earth is no longer a place ‘where men rule’, but ‘a shared Paradise.’ The middle paragraphs in this text