Introduction
- Thesis: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address articulates powerful examples of strong emotional appeals of confidence and hope, the Kairos of the tense political atmosphere of 1933, and the commonplace that an inaugural address usually lays out the President’s promises and intentions for the upcoming term.
Rhetorical Situation/Kairos
- First Inaugural Address (1933)
- He won the election by a relatively large margin
- Great Depression
- This is unlike his previous campaign speeches because he doesn’t have to convince anyone to vote for him, he knows he has enough of their approval.
Ethos
- Trying to boost confidence and hope
- Famous quote: “We have nothing to fear but fear itself”
- This is the part of the speech that would look at specific quotes from the speech
- It’s normally difficult to be seen as “relatable” as a politician when people are struggling with unemployment.
Commonplaces
- The Inaugural Address is where Presidents usually make broad claims about what they are going to get done during their upcoming term.
Conclusion
- Dynamic between a newly elected official and the citizens
I think is a well organized outline of your speech! Im eager to know more!
I am excited to learn about analyzing this speech! You could even analyze other speeches by leaders around the globe in your speech/paper.
I structured my outline similarly and am also looking at Kairos and commonplaces. Probably biased because of that but this post shows that your speech is going to turn out really interesting. He presided over such an interesting time in American history.