Monday, September 29, 2008

The First Charter of Virginia: Rhetorical Analysis

From my understanding I believe that the author of this document is Lukin. I think that his audience's are the Christians and the people who are colonizing to the new lands. The way that this document was written, in my opinion, was dull and very repetitive. The document always repeated "Plantation and Habitation" and "...the Lands, Woods, Soil, Grounds, Havens, Ports, Rivers, Mines, Minerals, Marshes, Waters..." It seemed as though there was little "excitement" in the voice of the piece which, to me, made it dull. The main idea of this document was establishing a colonization. The people who established these colonies ( the first and second) claimed this land, assigning land by latitude and longitude as the dimensions for their rightful properties. Councils were also established, it was their own government which made laws, currency, military and trade.

I think that the laws of this colony are the ethos because they represented more of a restriction which, dependign on which ones you broke, could be an emotional time. The pathos are the Successors, the people who ruled the colonies because they are the the credibility of the lands. The Successors establishing a new Colony, I believe, is the logos because you have to be logical to make a colony unite together so that your will not break.

No comments: