Sunday, September 18, 2016
Blog 1: Bush's 9/11 Speech 9/18/16
Bush's speech was very effective at a time of disunion and fear. He uses pathos, logos and ethos to properly engage the American people. Bush speaks as the president of the nation and already has ethos, yet the speech is filled with promises of defense and revenge against the terrorists, promises that he can make true. He uses his authority to fill the people with security. With logos, Bush addresses the victims, who were all family and friends of the nation, and the deliberate attack on the freedom of the USA. He verbalizes the situation with concise sentences. Lastly, Bush uses pathos to sympathize with the people and to unify them with a mutual anger and grief. He uses informal phrases to let the people know he is one of them. He finishes the speech with a sense of nationalism and a need for strength within the public. The perfect balance of rhetoric incorporates the president, the disaster, and the people during a crisis, and lets America know that despite what has happened, the terrorists have failed to shake the country into fear.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I'd have to agree on everything you mentioned. Bush himself being president of the United States of America already obtains automatic ethos. With automatic ethos I believe pathos comes with it aswell to a certain degree, considering Brush has the power to convince an audience of the his credibility or character, he can in a way control how they feel. With high credability there is a quality along with it where you can evoke the feelings of many. That's where Bush uses informal phrases to unify the nation and everyone as you said Victor, to fill people with the feeling of security. To conclude as you said I agree that logos was just another factor in the piece that made the speech so effective where he addressed the attack, the terrorists behind it, and how we can come out of this disaster as a better United States of America.
ReplyDelete