History will Absolve Me- Fidel Castro

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Main topic

This was a speech where the speaker understood how to spark change. At this point, Fidel Castro had done many things to try to get Cuba's attention so that they could understand that they could fight back against their oppressors. This speech was the final try in a way as he would be imprisoned unable to continue what he started after this. This speech was a call to action.

Did anything significant happen to the author of this speech afterwards?

Widely accepted to be the beginning of the Cuban Revolution.

In Castro's published manifesto, based on his 1953 speech, he gave details of the "five revolutionary laws" he wished to see implemented on the island: - The reinstatement of the 1940 Cuban constitution. - A reformation of land rights. - The right of industrial workers to a 30% share of company profits. - The right of sugar workers to receive 55% of company profits. - The confiscation of holdings of those found guilty of fraud under previous administrative powers.

The speech later became the manifesto of his 26th of July Movement.

Who was the original intended audience? It was intended for the people of Cuba who were suffering due to the current government and telling them what they should deserve in terms of rights.

When did this speech take place, and what happened before this took place? It was originally spoken on the 16 of October, 1953. Castro made the speech in his own defense in court against the charges brought against him after he led an attack on the Moncada Barracks in Cuba.

Who was the author of your speech? Fidel Castro was the original author of the speech which was originally 4 hours long.

History will Absolve Me- Fidel Castro

Original Speech

Its a call to action

Literal

Figurative

these are his thoughts on America

The Acting

Body Language

An almost blank stair into space making the actor look erie

His face uses extreme facial expression

The tone of voice used

Excitement

Joy

Resolve

Frustration

Anger

Fear

Serious

Edditing

Camera Work

Unlike some of the other speeches that I learned to, this one focuses almost only on the face using very few wide shots.

Questions

Considering the length of the original speech, it interesting to think about just how much Castro had to say and how it was cut down in the right way so that only the most important parts are highlighted, so how do think people felt when they listened to the original speech as the important points were slowly revealed

How did the people of Cuba feel after the speech was made, and how much of an impact did it have on the beginning of the Cuban revolution.

How would it have felt to listen to this in the original language.

Connections

text/world

people around the world were fed up with America due to their actions in the Cold War and how they have handled the communists in a way that has only hurt more people than helped

text/text

I recently watched the movie Oppenheimer and many of the connections that Fidel Castromakes remind me of the many precautions taken to make people fear and hate anyone that was communist no matter who they were.

text/self

I could see how people would be motivated to start a revolution because of this speech, but you can also see that Fidel Castro knew that it would happen and that his imprisonment would only further peoples hatred of the US. "I know that imprisonment will be harder for me than it has ever been for anyone, filled with cowardly threats and hideous cruelty. But I do not fear prison, as I do not fear the fury of the miserable tyrant who took the lives of seventy of my comrades."

Quotes

my comrades are neither dead nor forgotten; they live today, more than ever, and their murderers will view with dismay the victorious spirit of their ideas rise from their corpses.

I know that imprisonment will be harder for me than it has ever been for anyone, filled with cowardly threats and hideous cruelty. But I do not fear prison, as I do not fear the fury of the miserable tyrant who took the lives of seventy of my comrades.

The sadists, the brutes, go about in the guise of human beings, but they are monsters, only more or less restrained by discipline and social habit. If they are offered a drink from a river of blood, they will not be satisfied until they drink the river dry.

5 one sentence Quotes

The criminal hands that are guiding the destiny of Cuba had written for the prisoners at the entrance of that den of death the very inscription of Hell: ‘Forsake all hope.

I am a humble citizen who one day demanded in vain that the Courts punish the power-hungry men who had violated the law and torn our institutions to shreds.

We are Cubans and to be Cuban implies a duty; not to fulfill that duty is a crime, is treason.

What is more, my comrades are neither dead nor forgotten; they live today, more than ever, and their murderers will view with dismay the victorious spirit of their ideas rise from their corpses.

The sadists, the brutes, go about in the guise of human beings, but they are monsters, only more or less restrained by discipline and social habit.