The Crucible Rhetorical Analysis Essay

During this long chunk of non-dialogue the Narrator, seemingly Arthur Miller, goes into great depth to describe what is happening in America at the time of this play and also establishes his beliefs and persuades us to believe what he tells us with rhetoric. He frames America in a light of strict law and where most people are almost authoritarian and view every law made as moral rights and wrong. He frames America in this time where political opposition is unheard of and has strict consequences. He shows us that religion is almost law in this point of America and all who do not follow every rule to its finest are punished severely. A way he does this is by flat out saying it but in rhetorical terms he uses a very large analogy of American law to Communist beliefs. Their government is
He tries to boost his practical wisdom by showing us that he knows his craft. He does this in one of the main three ways that Heinricks showed us in TYFA, showing off experience. He does this by showing us that he got his beliefs and justifying them from how he was taught by a Lutheran professor in University. He was there, he lived it, and learned from it so that builds the idea that his ideas about it should be true, this is how he builds our belief in his craft. This then contributes to building his practical wisdom and as a whole his credibility is boosted making his Ethos look very solid. He also establishes disinterest in his conclusions by never taking a side. He remains neutral throughout this sort of monologue and instead gives us facts and logic that applies our logos then using deductive and inductive reasoning to come to conclusions about it. This disinterest he tries to establish applies to our Ethos. He also uses decorum in the way he relates his ideas about religion and how Salem is being run to Communism in other