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Rhetorical Analysis Of Remarks Concerning Savages Of North America

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Oh, The Irony Benjamin Franklin takes on an ironic tone in his essay, Remarks Concerning Savages of North America. He has a way of stating his thoughts using a rhetorical manner. He uses the word “savages” in a way that could apply not only to natives but settlers too. He compares natives and white settlers throughout his writing to show that natives aren’t savages, but their way of living is different from what settlers are normally accustomed. Right from the start, you can see the irony in his writing when Franklin states, “savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; which they think of theirs” (244). From this, we can draw that Franklin does not believe that natives are savages
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