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Rhetorical Devices In Of Plymouth Plantation

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From the three different text “Voyaged and Value” by Smith, “Of Plymouth Plantation” by Bradford, and “History of the Dividing Line” by Byrd, Byrd did a better job at using style and rhetoric to achieve his purpose of having the reader understand what was happening between the Englishmen and the Indians. Even though he stated his opinions and thoughts about the new world most of the time, his style was more successful for his purpose. At the very beginning of his narrative he was sarcastic and not very serious about the New World, he was using pathos. He thought that people were crazy to go to the New World because it was a dream for them. The Englishmen wanted to find new land to spread their religion, “As it happened some ages before to be the fashion to saunter to the Holy Land, and go …show more content…

These people were doing what they believed and following their dreams about discovering something new while Byrd was using a sarcastic tone while talking about the Englishmen's dream. The Englishmen left for America, but did not follow the initial plan. The Indians distracted the Englishmen from following their original plan, which was to spread their religion. Towards the middle of his text, Byrd was not being sarcastic anymore, instead he was mean and controlling. Byrd made rules between his people and the Indians, “The natives could, by no means, persuade themselves that the English were heartily their friends, so long as they disdained to intermarry with them” (Byrd 26). America was not what the Englishmen excepted it was going to be. Byrd did not like the Indians so he made a bunch of rules to make sure to keep his people and the natives separated. This was not the dream that the people thought it was going to be. The Englishman had to be careful and stay away from the Indians so they would not get punished. This part of the story used pathos because he was able to connect to the reader

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