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A paper which considers the use of rhetoric in John Berger's "Hiroshima", particularly with reference to the concept of Hell, terrorism, and the way in which revisionism is used to distort the reality of historical events.
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audiences "ways of seeing", or culturally influenced perception, through suppression or distortion of the text. He asserts that visual imagery, despite being perceived through the subjective ideological construct of the
viewer, has a far greater immediacy and power than written text, in that it is able to "cut through" the accretions of political constraints which are placed upon it and
allow a much closer interaction between audience and text.
In order to present a rhetorical analysis of "Hiroshima", therefore, it is necessary to consider not only the text itself but also his own ideological stance in
constructing it, since it is a written text which deals almost entirely with the power of the visual media. Much of Bergers article has a powerful emotional appeal, even when
he is adopting a rational and authoritative tone: his comments regarding the conflict between reality and idealism in politics, for example, have few elements of pathos in themselves, but are
grounded in a much broader perspective which uses pathos throughout to appeal to the emotional reactions of the audience.
This does not, however, imply that Berger is attempting to spark a superficial or sentimental response: despite the
negative connotations of the word "pathetic" in common usage, rhetoric which uses pathos rather than ethos as its focus is concerned with addressing the deeper psychological and emotive responses of
the reader, rather than their capacity for rationality and logic. Berger mentions, in fact, in the course of the essay that the rational viewpoint and later interpretation of Hiroshima has
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