Rhetorical Analysis Of Princess Diana

Diana’s brother, Lord Earl Spencer, in his eulogy for Diana, illuminates the awe-inspiring person they recently lost. He does this in order to honor the memory of his late sister, but also to expose that she is not the person the media exploited her out to be. He incorporates this by utilizing sincere diction, pathos, and ethos by establishing this he was able to provide the audience with a new view; in order to make the audience understand not the Diana the people knew, but the Diana he knew.
Spencer conveys the truly genuine person his sister Diana is by incorporating sincere word choice throughout his eulogy. Such as “[She is] the essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty.”, and “[She is] the symbol of selfless humanity.” He selects this language of text to convey not the malicious person, who the media constantly represented her as, but the grandiose person they had just lost. Thus causing the audience to feel the bitter loss Spencer was facing for a person they had never met before.

He also embodies pathos in order to make the audience reflect on her death, and to make the people regret the tragic loss of Princess Diana.

To illustrate, “Her [genuine] intentions were sneered at by the media.”, and “The greatest irony is perhaps a girl given the same of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in the end, the most hunted person of the modern age.” He integrates this in order to create a strong sense of pity for Princess Diana, therefore causing the audience to sympathize with Diana, and in the end feel only sorry for her. This causes the audience to realize what both the people and the media sadistically made her go through as a person, thus creating a suppressing feeling of

regret.
He also utilizes ethos to demonstrate to that he grew up with Princess Diana, therefore justifying that he knew her better than both the people and the media. He conveys this through, “she [did] not [change] at all from the big sister who mothered me as a baby.” This displays that as her brother he knew Diana extremely well; he implies this throughout the eulogy in order to convince the audience that neither the people nor the media had knew her as he did. This expounds that the audience should trust in his credible words alone, and not the factitious lies that were transmitted by the media and people.
Spencer, in his eulogy, exposes the media and the people at fault for maltreatment and maelstrom they had caused Diana to forcefully experience. However, he did not forget to exemplify the memory of the astonishing and radiant person Princess Diana is, and the person she will always be to her brother and the people who supported her.