Magna Carta: Symbols, Motifs, and Rhetorical Devices
Magna Carta: Symbols, Motifs, and Rhetorical Devices
The "Royal We"
Try spending just a single day where you only refer to yourself in first-person plural. Imagine telling your mom, "We're hungry for some dinner and we feel that ordering a pizza would be best for u...
Repetitive Rights
Virtually every clause of the Magna Carta deals with protecting—or reinstating—some kind of right. If there is one motif carried throughout it's that the people have rights…and that this docu...
Tax Scenarios
A lot of the clauses within the Magna Carta explain detailed scenarios for when it is and isn't okay to tax a person. Some of them are really similar to one another, with just minor differences, li...