Rhetorical Analysis Of Titanic

The rhetoric artifact I am analyzing is a speech by a North Korean defector, Park Yeon-Mi. She is a twenty-three old activist for North Korean freedom. Her speech was about her life when she lived in North Korea and when she escaped. Her speech also talked about her own generation in North Korea. She called the generation “장마당 (Jangmadang)” or “Black Market Generation” due to their attitude and thoughts about North Korea. Her speech uses forensic and epideictic rhetoric to show how North Korea needs to change its ways. In doing so, she explains the good life as a place where people can live freely to think and act as they wish. The forensic side of her argument is solid as her speech are essentially about confronting the oppressors of …show more content…
Controlling what we sing, say, read, listen to, or think what we want, But I realized that Titanic showed me a human story about love, beauty, humanity. It showed me that people could value something for themselves.” (1:49-2:13) She demonstrates how North Korea’s government control is a problem as it inhibits the people to understand emotions and how to act with those emotions. She reveals people of North Korean to completely misunderstand emotion through the analogy of the movie Titanic with how no one truly knows love as they are being brainwashed into thinking they love their leader while the movie presents people falling in love from free will and not just being in love with someone due to the fact if they don’t, they could die. Almost right after she has a part of her speech that can be both a pathos proof or ethos proof. When saying, “Titanic made me realize that I was controlled by the regime. I was not aware like a fish is not aware of water.”(2:34-2:44) She is able to show how her own character and how she saw herself causing her to change herself to become better. It enabled her to understand emotion better and recognize the wrong her leaders were doing to their people. She also had another ethos proof of how her government no moral side to them and that they enslave their people to do their bidding without a blink of an eye. With her talking this way she exposes a side …show more content…
Most of the thoughts that were epideictic had the proofs woven together. The important proof in the epideictic side of her speech is the logos proof as it is used with both of the other proofs. When Ms. Park said, “It showed me that Kim’s are dictators, using powers to oppress people and that, North Koreans deserve freedom.”(Time) it revealed how the North Korean government does not have any virtues and is something to blame for the problems in North Korea. Also, when saying the statement that the North Koreans need freedom, it becomes an infallible idea to her and others as freedom do as you wish to be important. The ethos logos proof mix is about the generation Ms. Park is from the “jangmadang”. The two mix due to the fact that she talks about the generation’s character and how even if not stated fully the idea that they do not love the Kim family is proven. The “jangmadang” generation character is shown to show their virtue in how they think due to viewing different information other than the propaganda given to them and deciding what they think figuring out what is right or wrong to them. Other than their character towards their ideas different media, they also have thoughts against the leaders of the regime. In Ms. Park’s speech, she talks about how there are three different parts of her generation. She asserts that her generation has no devotion to the ruling power, which

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