History will Absolve Me- Fidel Castro
5 one sentence
Quotes
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.
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.
We are Cubans and to be Cuban implies a duty; not to fulfill that duty is a crime, is treason.
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.
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.
Quotes
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.
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.
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.
Connections
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."
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/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
Questions
How would it have felt to listen to this in the
original language.
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.
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
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.
Edditing
The Acting
The tone of voice used
Serious
Fear
Anger
Frustration
Resolve
Joy
Excitement
Body Language
His face uses extreme
facial expression
An almost blank stair
into space making the
actor look erie
Original Speech
these are his thoughts on America
Its a call to action
Figurative
Literal
Main topic
Who was the author of your speech?
Fidel Castro was the original author of the speech which was originally 4 hours long.
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 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.
Did anything significant happen to the author of this speech afterwards?
The speech later became the manifesto of his 26th of July Movement.
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.
Widely accepted to be the beginning of the Cuban Revolution.