Rhetorical Analysis Of Drunk History

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The first video by Drunk History has shown the discriminating relationship between white and black people. Claudette Colvin, a black student sitting in a white sit is going back to home from her school. In the meantime a white lady comes inside the bus and orders these black girls to leave their sit just because she is. However, Claudette denies her. As a result police are called. In her defense she uses a very lethal rhetoric as she mentions that it is her right by the constitution since she has paid as many as the white lady has. The same video also portrays the flow of emotions as a rhetoric defense against discrimination. Rosa Parks gets into the drama to show the sick face being lift up from the white sit in order to demonstrate the evil segregation between to race people. This emotion could definitely trap white people for …show more content…
According to John Adams, constitution is liberal as it can turn and twist as per the need. On the other hand Jefferson's thinking is Constitution should be stable. Here is the initiation of their point of views. In their following speeches, they both speak bad things about one another with high confidence. One says the other is hermaphrodite and the other publishes the death notice in the newspaper. This shows the usage of the ethos as they both takes think from the prospective of public since they believe those headlines will definitely blow their mind. Austin says that Ethos "refers to the persuasion through the audience's perception of the speaker"(664). There is a brittle strike at this point. We can see a wide range of usage of sarcasm in the video like use of slang words, making joke of each other especially in front of mass and media. According to Austin Pathos are the outcomes of sympathy, fear, anger belonging and pride (662). Since the behaviors of two characters in the video are under these categories they are considered to be
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