Rhetorical Analysis Of Gone With The Wind

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“Gone with the wind” and the American Civil War are a movie and a historical event which complements each other effectively. I was expecting a great analysis, however as I was reading through the paragraph composition, I found was quite confused in the flow of his paragraph. The sentences seemed fragmented and were not complete. For example, “Rhett now in jail with his foreign bank accounts all blocked, her attempt to get his money has been in vain.” This does not constitute a proper sentence; it is if two simple sentences has been brought together by a comma and the words are in the wrong order, disrupting the flow. Instead it could have been written as “Since Rhett is now in jail, this caused his foreign bank accounts to be closed. Thus [her] …show more content…
He engages the use of pathos, logos and ethos well, and links it directly to the audience and the setting given using statements such as “The families endured logos on humanities focus of a general well-being, happily safe and sound.” During a civil war families struggle to create a civil and happy environment in the house where their personal feelings are affected by the dampening emotions of the ongoing war.2 Although once again, I was quite confused in terms of grammar and sentence type, I could understand the logos and pathos that was being expressed. For example, “The Families endured logos on humanities focus of a general well-being, happily safe and sound”, the grammar is poor, however as I analyse the concept of the “real-world” effect, I understand how the effects of the world war, which has been described by historians as one of the world’s most influential and destructive piece of history3 that has ever happened, is encompassed in a movie that gives the ideals of the family being affected by the war to just want peace and a reunion of their …show more content…
Instead of rewriting the plot, I feel certain aspects of the movie could have been analysed, where rhetorical appeals could have been more extensively brought out to the reader. The tone gives the reader not the effect of the movie on the audience, but rather just explains what the movie is about. Instead the tone could have analysed the purpose of the movie, where more emotional appeals could have been centred on if chosen a topic such as “Death in the American Civil War” in which statements such as “Roughly 2% of the population, an estimated 620,000 men, lost their lives in the line of duty”4 could be used and then retract to the movie where the movie shows the casualty of men and then appeal to the sense of pathos, logos and ethos in a way where the audience would understand the detrimental effects of

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