Consider the Lobster Rhetorical analysis
Gaige Schaal
In “Consider the Lobster” by David Foster Wallace, rhetorical elements are used with the purpose of slipping a controversial argument under the defenses of the audience. The author’s purpose is to persuade the audience to at least consider that there is a moral dilemma involved with eating lobster. This issue is very sensitive as it calls into question the intended audiences’ humanity. The only way to approach the touchy topic is through the use of a casual argument. The essay is officially a non-professional correspondent report of a Lobster Festival for the magazine “Gourmet”. The readers are not expecting a moral quandary, so the argument is framed in a friendly tabloidish shell. When
Gaige Schaal
In “Consider the Lobster” by David Foster Wallace, rhetorical elements are used with the purpose of slipping a controversial argument under the defenses of the audience. The author’s purpose is to persuade the audience to at least consider that there is a moral dilemma involved with eating lobster. This issue is very sensitive as it calls into question the intended audiences’ humanity. The only way to approach the touchy topic is through the use of a casual argument. The essay is officially a non-professional correspondent report of a Lobster Festival for the magazine “Gourmet”. The readers are not expecting a moral quandary, so the argument is framed in a friendly tabloidish shell. When