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A paper which considers the text from the point of view of rhetorical analysis, particularly with regard to the rational narrative, and considers the different perspectives a contemporary and a modern audience would adopt. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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reception by the contemporary audience: "I aimed at the publics heart and by accident I hit it in the stomach" (Sinclair, cited in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2003). From this, we
might reasonably conclude that even at the time the work was written, there was a conflict between the ideological commentary which Sinclair had intended, and that which was actually perceived
by his audience: added to this, a present-day analysis of the text reveals yet another perspective, in which current ideological paradigms form the parameters within which the text is assessed.
As de Caro (2003) points out,
this diversity of perceptions of the text accords well with Blacks concept of the "second persona" or implied auditor: the author constructs a model of what he wishes the real
auditor, or audience, to be. Sinclairs objective of touching the heart of the public through his powerful use of pathos within a setting of realism is based on the implicit
assumption that the audiences primary concern is with the plight of the underdog, and that sympathy with the disadvantaged will be generated through the text and translated into action. In
reality, however, although The Jungle certainly had a commendable socio-political impact on American society, it was not in the context of the harsh and brutal lives of immigrant workers but
rather with regard to the appallingly unhygienic conditions extant in the meat-production industry. As Sinclair wryly observed, the publics visceral reaction was of the stomach, not the heart.
This is, however, in many ways understandable.
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