Mad Men Rhetorical Analysis

Nathaniel Hawthorne, in his bold novel, The Scarlet Letter tackles a variety of themes that include: sin, guilt, redemption, postfeminism, and organized religion's abuse of power. Hawthorne spoke in a somber and grim tone, designed to arouse a sense of suspense for his readers. The audience in which he was addressing would have been conservative Christians and women suffragettes, all of whom reflected the ideologies during this time period. By instilling clever diction, Hawthorne exposes hypocrisy in Puritanism and objects against the religion's superfluous punishments; which force individuals to endure unnecessary and extreme suffering.

Check your intuitions—neither dismiss them, nor trust them blindly. In the play, Twelve Angry Men, the Jurors are always checking their intuitions. The Jurors’ intuitions are going to change whether the accused is guilty or not. The judge says, “If there is a reasonable doubt in your minds as to the guilt of the accused—then you must declare him not guilty.

“People ask, How did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there as well.”(pg.1) As this is the opening line of the book, “Girl, Interrupted” it pulls the audience in because they can most likely relate. People wonder how likely it is that they would end up in a mental hospital along with the other to say, “crazy” people. The author, Susanna Kaysen, uses many modes to effectively communicate a message to the audience.

This show portrays women being just as strong as men on many occasions, for example:

This postcard builds suspense in the reader’s mind. Alex saying that this adventure could kill him makes the reader interested in finding out more. “If this adventure proves fatal and you don’t ever hear from me again I want you to know you’re a great man.” (Krakauer 3).

After depositing her gear into one of the cage’s lockers, she ascended into the rafters with Vic who was seen grinning from ear to ear. He invited himself to watch Owen Grady demonstrate the contributive abilities of his velociraptors. Omorose remembered working with one pack but only briefly. Vic had them put down for ripping the stomach from one of his subordinates. Truthfully, she was hurt by it; she and Barry developed a bond with them. Although Barry trained them, she worked diligently to see that they were protected and grew fostered an almost matronly bond with them.

Sometimes whats ideal in a situation is not what the truth of the situation and can cause your ideals to be lost. In William Golding’s novel, “Lord of the Flies”, he demonstrates a shift in some of the characters from the thought of idealism to the reality and truth of the world. Ralph is a good example of this shift, he starts out thinking the island will be a fun place and they’ll have fun waiting to be rescued, but soon he realizes that there is going to be more hardship and struggles to keep up the moral and hope of rescue. In the book Ralph wanted to keep everyone safe and get them off the island, but Jack wants to be a leader and messes up his plans, making it so that Ralph is alone in his plan to get rescued.

“McCandless didn’t conform particularly well to the bush casualty stereotype.” Jon Krakauer, in his book Into The Wild, argues that McCandless was a unique personality who yearned for adventure. He supports his claim by the usage of epigraphs, interviews with McCandless’s acquaintances, and various maps that are indicative of where the protagonist travelled. Krakauer's purpose is to use an argumentative structure in order to convince the audience that McCandless was more complex than previously known. He uses a nostalgic and commanding tone in order to emotionally appeal to an audience who may have originally had different opinions on McCandless. In Into The Wild, Krakauer employs techniques of ethos and speaker in order to thoroughly convey

Nonconformity allows people to go against a prevailing rule so that they may do as they please.

Television sitcoms of the 1950’s through the 1990’s demonstrated the values and structure of the American family by portraying stereotypes. Since television sets became mainstream and entered almost every American home, the content of American sitcoms has reflected the culture of the times. Thus, as the popular American sitcoms of the 1950’s suggest, families living in the 1950’s were very tightly grouped and did everything together with roles of males and females clearly defined. In the 1950,’s women did the housecleaning and child care and men worked, providing for the family. In the sixties, women acquired more freedom in their lives. The 1963 Equal Pay Act and the 1964 Civil Rights Act came into effect. It was the end of the baby boomer

The author uses ethos to appeal to the readers through point of view since the author is a male and he is discussing characteristics of males. The author starts off with a connotation of the word manhood: “stupid, behavioural patterns that can produce unfortunate results such as violent crime, war, spitting and ice hockey” (page 940, second paragraph). This is significant because it links to some stereotypes related to men that the author may have experience or seen. Men are often seen as being more aggressive and violent than women. The narration of this essay is written in first person point of view which works hand in hand with the subjective description also being used and lets the readers see males through the author’s perspective. Connotation,

I like how in your post you brought up some common misconceptions that we have of the older adult population. There are so many lite hearted jokes around sexual dysfunction and the drugs to treat when thinking about older adult population in our society. It is a huge misconception that we have and a very popular one. We tend to think this to only be a problem for people that are older, but in reality sexual dysfunction effects men and women of all ages. I do like however, that this sitcom at least touches that the older population is not prude. During my Med Surg clinical last semester I noticed how when doing history on the older patients the nurse would often skip the sexual health section. I can only assume it is because we

Both television shows feature limited and somewhat problematic representation of women. This further extends to the treatment of women by show runners and the male characters present (actors) on these shows. Femininity is explored within the realm and it is not always in the best light as it is often ignored or downplayed. In Star Trek, the USS Enterprise is touted to be filled with officers of all stations of life: age, gender and ethnicities (at least on the bridge) from Star Fleet. If you’re on the ship-apart of the Federation that means that you are qualified and fit for duty and will be treated as such whether you are a man or a woman. Or so it seems.

From the opening of Act 1 to the very end of the play Logos is the only thing that keeps twelve somewhat pessimistic men from sentencing a boy from the slum to death. If Number Eight in the jury had looked at the upbringing the defendant as all the others did, then a potentially innocent boy would have been put to death. One of the most powerful claims from the prosecution was that the murder weapon was a strange knife one which the defendant purchased. Such a claim was diffused with Logos by Number Eight when he was able to get “it in a little junk shop around the corner from the boy’s house”. In Act three it was the smallest detail that “she testified that in the midst of her tossing and turning she rolled over and casually looked out the window…she couldn’t have had time to put on her glasses…maybe she honestly thought she saw the boy kill his father. I say that she saw only a blur.” which was able to convince the entire jury of the reasonable doubt the needed to find the kid not guilty.

Society is accustomed to having men play the role as “breadwinners,” while women stay at home, cook, clean, and raise the children. Mad Men portrayed men with high office jobs, while females had the lower end jobs. Nannies and secretaries were played as women in the show, which is a stereotypical job for a female. One of the women in Mad Men, Betty, was going to do the dishes, but her husband told her to “leave the dishes for the girl.” This represents the role of females taking care of the household.