Litertary movie Analysis:The Great Gatsby

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Writers and movie directors for years have the goal to try to tell or persuade the audience with their ideas on an issue or a cause that they believe in. They do this with the help of Aristotle’s idea of ethos, pathos, logos, telos, and kalos.These five rhetorical pillars are essential in writing and help readers figure out if the writer wrote persuasive or unpersuasive texts in their writings. In this essay, I will explain what the five rhetorical pillars are in the movie Great Gatsby and show examples of each of the five rhetorical pillars. In the movie The Great Gatsby, there are many great example of pathos that helps connect emotional appeal to the audience. Like for example how Nick Caraway says in the movie that “Gatsby believes in the green light, the orgiastic that year by year exceeds before us.” This shows emotion that the audience connects to because he says that Gatsby made a change in his life to be closer to his true love Daisy. Or also the scene where Daisy and Gatsby see each other at Caraway’s house for the first time in years, which is supposed to make an emotiona...

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