Rhetorical Strategies Analysis of “Bill Clinton’s First Inaugural Address”

rhetorical Strategies Analysis of Bill Clintons First Inaugural Address Introduction William Jefferson Bill Clinton served as the 42nd chair of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He got authority at the end of the Cold War. During Cold War, in order to postulate with the Soviet Unions military power, the federal government activity spent a great deal of financial resources to give a powerful military. The quality of life of common people decreased year after year. At that time, people desired to have a new powerful authority to rebuild peoples confidence.Clinton won the 1992 presidential election with 42% of the vote against his predecessor, George H. W. Bush who had 37. 4% of the vote. Clintons wining ended the republican rule of the White brook of previous years. With 43% of the vote, he outpolled the winning House candidate in five districts. Clinton has been described as a New Democrat. In January 1993, he had campaigned on the theme of change and the public expected him t o deliver. And in his scratch foremost address, he continually promised change.The purpose of my article is to figure out what rhetorical strategies and play did President Clinton use in oder to accomplish hi task of change? Inaugural addresses have lots served as the civil religion. Clinton was well prepared to take this tradition. According to the evidence, it suggests his three main resources for first inaugural address are his lifetime study of the Bible, his education at Georget take in University, and his reading of others inaugural addresses by Republican and Democratic presidents.During the campaign Clinton menti whizzd that when he was a little tiddler, he felt a strong name to go to church even though his parents did not go. He grew up in the Southern Baptist assignment and as he remembered, I had to get other people to read the scripture every sidereal day or do it myself. His religious choice fits the American belief. Most American believe that God is actively interested and involved in history, with a special concern for America, as Robert N. Bellah said. During the 1990s, Clinton skillfully used scriptural language to make common eople trust him and rebuild their confidence in a future president. condition The inaugural address of an American president is a vital ceremonial event and an occasion for a particular kind of communication between the President and the people. The president represents all the people of a clownish and his inaugural address shows a direction of the government. The address is the first official announcement made by the new president and it is analyzed as setting the tone for the four years to follow.Presidents have had their own skill in shaping and delivering their addresses, drawing on rhetorical devices to convey a message and to extend a sense of meaning and value. Clinton gave people a vivid image about a grade new future for the United States with a short first address. He bring a allegory for the futu re, a spring reborn in the worlds oldest democracy, that brings forth the vision and courage to reinvent America. For the spring to be reborn in America, President Clinton called for government and public to change.Clinton thought that America have to change for founder notion and not change for changes sake, only change to preserve Americas ideals life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Thus, from my perspective, the rhetorical strategy of Clintons first address is scene. He tries to explain contemporary situation of America and he tries to advocate change on this issue. The Strategy of Persuasion As we learned, the three main methods of persuasion involve pathos, ethos and logos. President Clinton seems to use one major approach, pathos, to persuade audiences.Also you can read Rhetorical Devices in Night Walker by Brent StaplesPathos is to use emotion to persuade audiences minds in a rhetorical argument. President Clinton uses basic American beliefs and ideologies, such as, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, trying to arouse peoples passion. Also, he brought out the social problem of America, that raised in unrivaled prosperity, we inherit an economy that is still the worlds strongest, but is weakened by business failures, stagnant wages, change magnitude inequity, and deep divisions among our people. He used realistic problems to relate to common peoples daily life. It brings out another passion, which is to skin for their life.Then, in the middle of his first inaugural address, Clinton calls for peoples responsibilities to regenerate and create a better nation. He uses child to bring out a bigger theme of posterity and he calls peoples passion to create a better society for their posterity. He said, posterity is the world to come the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we wear down sacred responsibility. By using pathos of persuasion, President Clinton tried to arouse the public to put to a greater extent effort into establishing American society in order to renew the United States.The significant purpose of persuasion always to change peoples behavior eventually. Then, Clinton mentioned three main parts to renew the whole country. First of all, to renew America, we must be bold, which brings out the responsibilities of citizens and government second of all, we must revitalize our democracy, which discusses reinventing authority and the federal government finally, we must meet challenges abroad as well at home, and President Clinton gave two ideas both fineness and national thoughts. The Strategy of Biblical LanguageIn the end of first address, President Clinton emphasis on how individuals change themselves to beget the governments and countrys change. He used emotional language to make that argument, that is in serving, we recognize a simple but powerful truth we need each other. In the final paragraph of the inaugural address, it included a verse from St. Pauls letter to the Galatians, and let us not be weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not, which could make special resonance. As mentioned above, Clinton uses biblical language to reference to semipolitical trusts and purposes.