Scapegoating Joe from the 1919 World Series Scandal

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Introduction Kenneth Burke used a process of analysis to certain situations call a “Pentadic Analysis”. I this research paper I will attempt to explain a pentadic analysis, what its elements are and then provide an example of a specific situation (1919 World Series). Then explain some of Burke’s key concepts he has derived throughout his life. I will also compare some of Burke’s concepts to two reading by Sigmund Freud. Next a deep clarification of each of the five terms (act, agent, agency, scene, and purpose) associated with a pentadic analysis. Then assign each term (act, agent, agency, scene, and purpose) with regards to my chose 1919 World Series example. I will then attempt to help clarify the motives that Joe Jackson uses as a scapegoat, by assigning ratios to the terms (agent/agency, scene/act etc.…), by assigning these ratios. Last I will then identify the most relevant concepts that relate to the 1919 World Series pentadic analysis. Situation During the 1919 MLB season the Chicago White Sox were one of the elite teams. Many of the players had formerly been on the 1917 World Series winning team. The 1919 World Series has ever been a phenomenon to many sports enthusiast still to this day. The series started out seeming like any other World Series played before. Two highly talented and competitive teams playing for what some call the most prestigious honor in baseball, to be crowned world champions. But many adopt the Reds had some help. What started as a few simple gamblers trying get rich quick, turned into one of the most predominantly and surly one of the obscurest scandals in American baseball past and present? With the nation already in disorder the 1919 World Series scandal made many American lose assurance in the... ... middle of paper ... ...able for a critical analysis threw Kenneth Burke’s Pentadic Analysis. Then I have explained some of Burke, Freud, and Marx key concepts that could be examined why attempting a pentadic analysis. I have provided a brief description, and assigned examples of the five elements (act, agent, agency, scene, and purpose) to doing a pentadic analysis. I have additional broken done a few of these elements by assigning ratios, to offer my reader with an added, deeper analysis to motives behind each element of a pentadic analysis. Lastly I have given a brief case for my given situation (1919 World Series), and the most relevant Marx concept of exploitative system in society. By taking into count a few of the aforementioned concepts given by Burke, Marx and Freud I trust a well-rounded pentadic analysis of “Scapegoating Joe, from the 1919 World Series Scandal” can be completed.

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