Bill Clinton Rhetorical Analysis Of Persuasion

Credibility is the quality of being trusted and believed in. Clinton makes it clear that she understands and is an important person covering the topic. “Over the past 25 years, I have worked persistently on issues relating to women, children, and families. Over the past two and a half years, I've had the opportunity to learn more about the challenges facing women in my own country and around the world.” She shows competence with her knowledge and expertise to the audience. Aristotle states, “Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think they are credible.” Besides the words she is saying, she shows respectable charisma, and she appears to have a high level of confidence during
Also, because Clinton is a woman she proved that women are just as important as men. For this reason, it was more appropriate for Clinton to present the speech than a man. Credibility is hard to earn on even with these factors in consideration. If she did not show detailed logos, pathos, and ethos in her speech, then I feel she would have lost credibility really fast and it would be hard for her to bring up her beliefs ever again to the public. Especially these days, it is hard to keep credibility due to technology and precise records of everything if you are not consistent. Clinton may have had credibility in 1995, but the records clearly show that she likes to change her mind a
“The foundation of dramatism is the concept of motive: the reasons why people do the things they do.” Each event contains: act, scene, agent, agency and purpose. “Burke believed that all of life was drama, and we may discover the motives of actors (people) by looking for their particular type of motivation in action and discourse.” I am going to analyze the Act (the speech), Scene (Where the speech took place, Beijing), Agent (Hillary Clinton), Agency (Techniques used in the speech) and the overall purpose of the act, and why it was