Analysis

 __**Subject**__: The question of who we let govern us and their true motives.

"Why don't you go home?...This is no place for you - you're half-way decent. You don't belong here. Now go home." - Clarissa Saunders

"The people of my state need permanent relief from crooked men riding their backs." - Jeff Smith

__**Occasion**__: Released and based in the late 1930s, //Mr. Smith Goes To Washington// is primarily focused on the events that occur in Congress with the arrival of a fictional character meant to symbolize Truth and Justice, and the impact such a character would have upon Congress.

" I wonder Diz, if this Don Quixote hasn't got the jump on all of us. I wonder if it isn't a curse to go through life wised up like you and me." - Clarissa Saunders

The majority of characters that meet Mr. Smith view him as passionate yet naive.

__**Audience**__: //Mr. Smith Goes To Washington// premiered in Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., with 45 senators in attendance. The purpose of this premier was to make a bold claim and while it was not exclusively meant for political figures, it sent a profound message.

"Now, you're not gonna have a country that can make these kind of rules work, if you haven't got men that have learned to tell human rights from a punch in the nose." - Jeff Smith

__**Speaker**__: The speaker is a fictional character named Jeff Smith. Jeff Smith is a leader of the Boy Rangers, a group meant to mirror the ideals of reality's Boy Scouts. Smith has grown up believing in the ideologies of the founding fathers, and is blind to the state of actual politics. It is this uncorrupted ignorance combined with his public appeal that makes Jeff a prime target for the newspaper tycoon Jim Taylor in his attempt to influence the Senate in his favor.

"That's why they sent you here in the first place, because you don't know a dam from a bathtub." - Clarissa Saunders

__**Tone**__: The tone ranges from the slow drawl of Jeff Smith as he slowly begins to understand what is happening, the weary dialect of Clarissa Saunders as she tries to guide him with her years of experience, and the jowly snarl of Jim Taylor as he commands his forces to descend upon Smith's reputation in an attempt to discredit his claims of corruption against Jim.

"I know I'm being disrespectful to this honorable body, I know that. I- A guy like me should never be allowed to get in here in the first place. I know that! And I hate to stand here and try your patience like this" - Jeff Smith

"Either he falls in line with us and behaves himself or Ill break him so wide open theyll never be able to find the pieces." - Jim Taylor