Rhetorical Strategies In Blackfish

Throughout the documentary “Blackfish” many rhetorical strategies are used to persuade the viewer about how captive and free killer whales living styles are affected. The main devices used to manipulate the viewer are: ethos, pathos, and logos. The filmmaker uses ethos to try to convince the viewer of the credibility being used across the broadcast. For example “whales live equivalent to a human's life span” is a prime example of ethics because it is the moral principle of the lifetime of a killer whale being compared to a human’s lifetime. When the producer mentions how the “female whale lives to about a hundred years old and the males live to about fifty to sixty years old” is also credible facts of killer whales life span. “Tilikum was