Monday, February 18, 2008

Declaration of Independence

In the document Thomas Jefferson has made many ethos appeals. He gave his audience facts to prove that his points of views were right. “To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world…” This sentence was from the transcript of the document. And because of all the ethos appeals, the document seemed more forceful, and easier to fall for, to believe in. At the same time there are a lot of appeals to logo as well. There were about twenty similar sentences followed up: started with the letter “he”; He talked about the England King and his ridiculous rules and laws to his people. But if you read the sentences, and if you have gone through those facts, then Thomas Jefferson would have used appeals of pathos as well.
He talked about the British King’s Laws to his people, and put himself into his people, here I mean there are many “we” and “our” used in this document. It is an appeal to pathos.

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