Use of こそ. What words is it replacing here?


OK , so I am a huge fan of Kill la Kill, and I looked up how to say "Fear is
Freedom, Control is Release, Contradiction is Truth". The whole line in
Japanese is:

> 「恐怖こそ自由！君臨こそ解放！矛盾こそ真理！それがこの世界の真実だ！服を着た豚ども！その真実に屈服せよ！」

Now, this Japanese is pretty simple, and I totally get the meaning (obviously,
since there's a translation, but I mean that I understand how the language
here works). However, I'm not sure what こそ is doing here. I know that it
emphasizes the previous word, but is that enough to form a statement? Can
someone explain what it's doing here, and the proper use of it?

Also, secondarily, I'm wondering why ども is required here. I was pretty sure
that it was used to mean "both", so why is it needed here, where she is not
addressing _both_ pigs in human clothing, so much as a whole crowd of them?




こそ is appended to a word to emphasise it. It can replace particles は or が -
you can form a sentence using the pattern 「AこそB。」. It has similar meaning of
equivalence as「AはBだ。」but gives the statement more emphasis:

> 恐怖こそ自由。 (emphatic)
>
> 恐怖は自由だ。 (normal statement)

(Note: this is not the only pattern of こそ usage.)

* * *

One of the meanings of ども is "(derogatory) second or third person plural
(implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)" (source
[WWWJDIC](http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/%7Ejwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1C)). 「豚ども」
in this case is plural - "pigs", giving it derogatory meaning.




こそ is appended to a word to emphasise it. It can replace particles は or が -
you can form a sentence using the pattern 「AこそB。」. It has similar meaning of
equivalence as「AはBだ。」but gives the statement more emphasis:

> 恐怖こそ自由。 (emphatic)
>
> 恐怖は自由だ。 (normal statement)

(Note: this is not the only pattern of こそ usage.)

* * *

One of the meanings of ども is "(derogatory) second or third person plural
(implies speaker is of higher status than those referred to)" (source
[WWWJDIC](http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/%7Ejwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1C)). 「豚ども」
in this case is plural - "pigs", giving it derogatory meaning.

