Medieval Rhetoric: The Art Of Persuasion

Rhetorical criticism: Exploration &

No matter who anyone was there the laws and taxes stilled applied to everyone. The government set the taxes and laws based on the will of what church they went to and what was the right thing to do. They also had strict rules about kissing in public and a lot of inappropriated things considered to be wrong by the church. Some states had nicknames after the color paper they printed the laws on.

Laws were even made based on religion. The churches were so powerful they would even go to war with people of different religions. Peasants were expected to follow the “Great Chain of Being” which meant they were expected to show humble deference to their betters(). The second reason that the modern world highlights the limitations of peasants is they were constantly threatened by scarcity and famine ().

The racist U.S. government reinforced the powerlessness of slaves by denying their ties to both biological and nonbiological relatives and refusing to recognize civil unions of slaves as marriage. In colonial Peru, O’Toole points out that African slaves also received everyday abuse in the fields and masters’ residences yet socially impacted colonialism by joining the Catholic church, which counted them as Christians by canon law with Spanish subjects, therefore allowing them to marry each other and baptize their children. Moreover, racial mixture permeated casta boundaries in the northern port city of Trujillo, where the clerics of the indigenous parishes of Santa Ana and San Sebastian defended their right to marry indigenous people with mixed-race and black

Religious places are valuable for providing people with the joy and peace that they need from God. And the action of this man was ruining the environment. He was clearly not respecting or adhering to the culture of the church. I think that many people were thinking about getting him down from the chair and helping the guard, but no one actually did because of the bystander effect. Everyone was waiting for someone else to take the step.

King Henry VIII defended the Catholic Church during the beginning of his reign. He was very religious and attended mass as often as five times a day. He was openly against heretics, so when he publicly denounced Martin Luther, an influential Protestant, he gained the Church as an ally. Henry even went to such extreme lengths such as burning non-Latin bibles and torturing non-Catholics in order to gain affluence from the Church. The English King always carried his selfish motives along with him during all his alliances.

The role of women in society has become a question of interest for writers for some centuries, since these have traditionally been depicted as mere objects of pleasure, that also were responsible for the household chores, as well as nurturing and taking care of the children. Furthermore, the way women were represented was completely opposite to men, as if gender determined one’s personality, intellect or skills. Women were seen as the weak ones, too emotional, incapable of reasoning and dependent on the males of their family (and afterwards, their husbands). On their behalf, men were the rational and intelligent part of the relationship, strong and the leaders. This opposition is clearly represented in the stories “Woman Hollering Creek” by Sandra Cisneros and “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid, two authors that focus on the female character and approach the topic exposed before.

What equated women’s book-learning in the Middle Ages with black magic and disgrace, now, became a privilege not every woman can acquire. In addition, the Reform movement called for “a revision of religious positions on marriage. ”(mohja) This “revision” led to the decline of misogamy. The rejection of misogamy and the confirmation of the importance of the marital statues strengthened the position of woman in the family.

The monarchs were considered a representative of God on earth, and being a very devoted Christian society , the thought that the monarchs being overpowered would cause chaos and disorder. The shipwreck also have links to the disruption natural order or for Prospero ,the beginning of the reestablishment of his rightful throne . The tempest would seem as a bad omen to the people then, however , none of the ships passengers were physically harmed when they marooned on Prospero’s island. It seems as though Prospero uses magic to intimidate , but at his core, he is compassionate. Zimbardo points out that he uses music, the very symbol of order, in creating his effect , he manipulates other characters to

The standards and social acceptance by society in the Renaissance was the dominant role of men over woman. Woman had many inequalities in society that promoted the ideals of male dominance inside and outside the household. Numerous restrictions were set on woman both in civil and canon law. Social laws and expectations were held against woman not allowing them to hold office or any significant jobs during that time because their position was to obey and give service to the men.

Religion before the Great Awakening was strictly based on class and social status. Most people in the colonies sat in different seats, and they were divided into sections. It was not until the Great Awakening that these different social groups of people started to mix. Women, for example were treated harsh in the Puritan churches. They were considered as subordinates of men, and they did not have any roles in churches.

Puritans emerged from the Protestant reformation in the 1500’s, they believed in a total purification of English Christianity because of Henry VIII and his separation from the Roman Catholic Church. Eventually, due to the slow progress of the Protestant reformation, Puritans wanted to see the church of England rid of all catholic influence. With this new-found desire they began to structure their own beliefs and rules. These rulemakers were extremely devout Puritans, they believed that only “visible saints” should be allowed to attend church, meaning only people who could feel grace in their souls and openly demonstrate it to their fellow Puritans could set foot in church. This differed from the church of England, which allowed all subjects

Rhetoric is a tool students use to learn and analyse the reading more in depth. Rhetoric has many different sections to successfully use rhetoric, for an example there is the rhetorical triangle, the appeals, content and the intention. The rhetorical triangle is used to help the understand of the reading. The triangle has three sections: speaker, audience and the subject. The speaker is known as the persona, which means the character the speaker creates.

The author uses many rhetorical devices in the passage. He uses ethos to convince us he is credible by analyzing works that everyone is familiar with. For example, the declaration of independence. He breaks it down into parts and explains how Thomas Jefferson used a deductive argument.

Renaissance Humanism was the period of time in which many social and religious systems were being challenged after the austerity of the Middle Ages. The idea of humanism is that individuals could define their lives and live happily on earth without constant worry of the afterlife. People of the Middle Ages were expected to have a duty to the Church, and not be interested in much else. Many people of the Renaissance were conflicted between the medieval ideas of faith and the humanist ideas of reason. Scientific study also advanced from medieval ideas during this time.