The success of rhetoric comes from the ability to reach out to people. John Locke speaks of how language ultimately is used to communicate with people. An interesting thing I found was how it is important for the people listening to be “excited” by the same words being spoken. This is because what a person is saying needs to be understood and attract the attention of the audience. More complex ideas make the use of language more complicated because more words have to be used which means more opportunities for misinterpretation and confusion. I believe this because even reading this I’ve gotten confused and twisted around a bit. Misinterpretation is the cause of many problems. A significant one I can think of immediately is the Bible. Complex ideas have been interpreted in many ways and everyone believes the other is incorrect. With one text many ideas are being receives. This is because language is not perfect and cannot fully encompass the ideas behind the insignificant words. The words are nothing without an idea behind them, but sometimes the words do not fully explain the original meaning. This why language is not perfect. If language is meant to share an idea and yet cannot, then language is not perfect. The end goal is to be able to communicate with others and that end goal is achieved making words and language critical to our culture.