Elie Wiesel's 'Perils of Indifference' and the Ownership of Words, Ideographs, and Archetypal Metaphors

Abstract

In this paper I simply argue for a new verb, more forceful, or a set of verbs, more persuasive, for those who seek to persuade about persuasion, to perhaps consider. I use Elie Wiesel's 1999 speech on "The Perils of Indifference" as a text to make a case with. I use the terms "words," "ideographs" and "archetypal metaphors" since those terms are used by such figures of rhetoric as Aristotle, Robert Ivie, Michael Osborn, and Michael Calvin McGee.

Keywords: Elie Wiesel, persuasion, rhetorical terms, ideographs, archetypal metaphors