Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Rhetorical Analysis

The writer's purpose, in this article, is for the audiences understanding of Madame de Beaumont and Angela Carter's novel's f beauty as the women and beast as the men. They both have similar characters but they both end up with different conclusions. The writer portrays that women are usually the ones who bring out the “best” in men, but in her opinion, there is a more in-depth version of the beauty and the beast .I feel as if her audience could be directed towards the young women who have had relationship problems or problems within their own hearts. The author seems to be mindful of her audience but she makes it so that even if you haven't read the novel's she provides a great overview of both. The text is not very complicated it's refined and gives a slight image of both sides when she offers quote's. However, the subject is men versus woman, and the relationships between them. It is a subject that the audience would be directed to and also tuned into. The author doesn't just talk about a men and a women's relationship, she goes farther and deeper into talking about a father and his daughter's relationship and how woman are naturally with their father's. Also for the purpose or overall main point it would be in Madame de Beaumont’s,  Beauty and the Beast, the woman are portrayed as the civilizing negotiator, while in Angela Carter's The Tiger's Bride, the women or known to bring out the "beast" in men. Which means this thesis shows that the subject is the controversy of how woman are to men. The author is trying to prove both sides of both novel's and which makes her thesis controversial; it makes you want to choose a side.
         As the author selects a few words  that are more complex that stretch a deeper meaning to the point,  but for the most part the context is easy to understand for the the type of audience she is focused on. The quote's she uses to present her points from each novel gives us a clear understanding her important point she's trying to get the audience to understand. This evidence that she provides is important to prove her argument because without the proof there is no argument to prove. The author begins the introduction with going straight into what the theme is for each of the novels’s talked about. It is done effectively because it sets up the article and gives an efficient overview of what the audience is about to read. Although she sets up a good introduction, she also does use positive transitions throughout the whole entire article. I think they work well because you’re still getting the point in each paragraph, it’s not as if you’re losing sight of the main point. In addition, the author's wording has a formal and sophisticated tone. The diction used would not be used to be put into younger kid's books, more for teenagers and beyond. The author here does use specialized terms in this case it was when she was describing the quotes
                Although there are many particular terms mentioned from the novels there are many contrasts and some judgments to follow up, there aren’t any similes are metaphors. She tends to use the contrasts and comaprisions when talking about both novels in the same. I think they are also there to improve meaning for either the main point or to support the quotes. I do feel as if the author herself is an authority of the subject just because her points are proven and captured by the audience well.