How To Write A Rhetorical Analysis Of Mark Twain's Ethos

Ethos appeal to ethics and in this article, it is apparent that Mark Twain lost all credibility when he said that he was in deed a scientist. Once you read through the essay you quickly realize that it is written on a metaphorical foundation. Stereotyping every citizen as harsh, irrational and gluttonous. The comparison that Twain uses to illustrate his stances on the matter is the sport of hunting buffalo. Twain describes how man killed seventy-two buffalo for sport and left seventy-one to rot. Twain’s correspondence concludes that all men are malicious and annihilate things that they have no use for. Twain continued through the essay with his employment of efficient pathos. His similes or as he refers to them as “experiments” moves readers to a different level of

In this essay the example Mark Twain says, “At the head of this article we see how three monks were burnt to death a few days ago, and a prior put to death cruelty. Do we inquire into the details? No; or we should find out that the prior was subjected to unprintable mutilations” this is his way of appealing to the emotions of his readers. He is making the readers feel grief for the monks and when he says “subjected to unprintable mutilations” explains that another monk was murder in a horrendous matter to the point that the paper did not print it. Which in returns makes the readers angry towards the press because they suppressed vital information. Since logos appeals to logic and in this essay, there are a few examples of how Twain uses logic. However, when he goes into speaking about how, “man is the only slave and he is the only animal the enslaves”. Which is logical because it is true and has been a bad representation on humanity for centuries. He talks about how man holds another man in bondage under him and have that man slave for