Princess Diana Eulogy Analysis

Powhatan uses pathos to attach or persuade Captain John Smith with sentimentality to reach out to him on a more personal level. He wrote “ I am growing old and must soon die.” this helps by making Captain John Smith feel concerned about Powhatans years of life left, making him feel pity. Another example of pathos would be “Why should you take by force that from us which you can have from love?”. Here you can see how Powhatan is trying to convince and make a point of how peace is easier achieve than what it appears to be.

Thatcher used a pathos appeal to get the audience to feel bad for the passing of Reagan. With this, she gets the audience to feel sorry for her dear friend, and makes them feel the sorrow that she endures. One example of this is shown on lines one through two, “We have lost a great president, a great American, and a great man, and I have lost a dear friend.” These lines get the reader to

Princess Diana of Wales was killed in a car accident in Paris, France in 1997. She was divorced from England’s Prince Charles and a mother to Princes William and Harry. In her life, she was known for her philanthropy and her marriage with the Prince. The accident was known around the world and many newspapers and news programs wrote articles about the late Princess’s death. The Queen of England and Princess Diana’s brother Lord Spencer spoke about the Princess in a televised speech and her eulogy at the funeral service.

The effective use of pathos is the crowning jewel used throughout Quindlen's article. The emotion portrayed in each testimony gives light and drives the forces of the lasting effects of death and grief. Mrs. Quindlen's specific examples and hard hitting emotional ties of her own experiences delivers a fatal blow to the heart strings of the reader. Quindlen conveys, "My great journalistic contribution to my family is that I write obituaries. First my mother's, 22 years ago, listing her accomplishments: two daughters, three sons. Then that of my father's second wife, dead of the same disease that killed his first one." There is more than meets the eye with his statement, carried throughout the article.

Thatcher builds ethos by her standings politically as the former prime minister, and she builds this by explaining her relationship with her ¨dear friend¨ Ronald Reagan (Thatcher). Ethos is how an author or speaker shows they they are credible. When Thatcher explained how she worked closely with Reagan, it made it sound more reasonable to the reader to listen to her opinion about him and believe it. Margaret Thatcher also uses a large amount of pathos to bring honor to Ronald Reagan and to help ¨America´s wounded spirit¨ (Thatcher). Pathos is how the speaker or author appeals to the reader's emotions throughout the writing. Since this is a gloomy time, many emotions will surface and Thatcher played off of those feelings in order to get the reader to sympathize Ronald Reagan. Thatcher also uses logos by recalling specific times and places of events like Reagan's win against the ¨Soviet Union¨ in the ¨Cold War¨ (Thatcher). Most people never got to know Ronald Reagan personally so it was important for Thatcher to recall old times that proved that her was an amazing man to even those who never knew him. Specific details from events serve as facts which the reader who thinks logically will sympathize more with rather than things that appeal more to your emotions. The use of ethos, logos, and pathos helped Thatcher make her eulogy credible enough that the audience can connect to it, logically and

Margaret Thatcher, the former British Prime Minister, reflected on the benign qualities of President Ronald Reagan, with whom she worked closely with in office, in her eulogy to the American public. Her purpose was to emphasize Reagan’s hardworking, reassuring, and friendly personality through the use of different rhetorical strategies, in order to create a sense of pathos. Thatcher was able to pay her respects and covey her meaningful message by using anecdotes, parallelism, and contrast.

He also includes a lot of emotional parts throughout the speech this is effective as it may get an emotional response from the audience this happens when he says “Your loved ones were daring and brave” and “It is hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen” this is a good use of pathos as it does connect to the emotional feelings of the viewer.

The stage is set, the lights are dimmed, and the spotlight shines down upon former pro wrestler Mike Kinney. Throughout Kinney’s speech, he uses pathos to help appeal to the audience's emotions and persuade them to accept and approve of his ideas. The strongest and most effective use of pathos happens towards the middle of Kinney’s speech. “Not long after I started wrestling, my dad unexpectedly passed away. And as you can imagine, especially as a teenage boy, it destroyed me”(3:39). Kinney uses a very strong emotional appeal when he tells the audience that his dad has passed away at a very young age. This is such an effective appeal because anyone who has lost someone important in their life knows how hard it can be. If the speaker himself has lost someone important to him, not only does this make the audience sad, they

I found in the play “Leaving Home” that I could find the use of pathos in various spots. I noticed the definition “an expression or utterance that evokes sadness or sympathy, esp. in a work of literature; a description, passage, or scene of this nature” more than the others. In this text, I could really see the use of pathos being used by the emotionally-loaded language, the emotional examples, the figurative language, and the emotional tone. The actors had a lot going on in just the short time of the play.

One example of how Brady uses pathos to connect emotionally with the readers is in paragraph two. In paragraph two Brady writes,”Why do I want a wife?”(Brady 229), she writes this not as a serious statement, but as a sarcastic one. She writes it sarcastically to show readers that she is a women so she doesn’t really have any desire to have a wife, but to show the crazy ideas men have and expect their wives to do.

This quote in particular helped me realize exactly how upset Jackie had been after her family died. Another example of pathos is, “I watched in horror as a mile down the road the pavement started to crumble apart. When the road split in two, our car drove right off the edge and the earth swallowed my family up. ”(Novak 12 ) This quote allows me to get a better understanding of what happened to Jackie’s family and let’s me feel the same pain

The President John Kennedy used pathos to appealing the emotion of the American people, he wanted the audience to feel profound about he is speaking about. For example, he broached that “they were born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by hard and bitter peace.” He brought up all death and suffering that occurred during the war.

When reading “Don’t let me be lonely” by Claudia Rankine. The passage I came across on was (Rankine 39) the way people mourned for Princess Diana and how they addressed their grief towards her death was the way that I’ve have mostly commonly seen which would show people weeping and being there for one another. The citizens would leave flowers and candles on the palace to show respect and

Specific Purpose Statement: To inform the audience about Princess Diana and her contributions to the world.

This speech does have a purpose, which is to tell the whole world that Britain is united in grief and respect for Princess Diana. Unlike the previous text this one does a good job because it does not bore reader because the speech has a unique style of not telling its real purpose until the near end which forces people to listen to the whole thing. Also it knows the subject and the occasion and in which the two things interact nicely. Also the Queen knows her audience who are the people shocked by the devastating news. As a speaker the Queen uses soothing tone that make her look like she is just regular person in grief for her grand daughter and does not mention any negative details like, if she were to have one, which would be her rage against the photographers or the press. In conclusion there is not that much criticism for this text because the purpose can be identified really easily by the stylistic phrases and knowing all the key elements of rhetoric. Also one of the most important factors that make this text more effective is the shift from “I” to “Our”, this pronoun is significance because it demonstrate the speaker to connect with others which is a key element in persuasion or speech.