Rhetoric

In the article “The Rhetorical Situation”, Lloyd F. Bitzer explains why rhetoric is situational due to the context and where the speech is coming from. He describes rhetoric to be viewed by an audience that can be changed through the actions and beliefs of the speech. Rhetoric comes from a subject and then forms into discourse and is almost always persuasive. Bitzer eludes discourse is not rhetorical as well as exigence when modified. He refers to when an action takes place it can only be changed if discourse is accepted. Exigence is the organizing principle that states who the audience is and how the audience is treated. Bitzer defines exigence as a default that should be fixed. He explains that in rhetoric there are many exigence’s that may not be rhetorical because they can’t be changed. In the Netflix series Narcos, rhetoric was displayed when President Gaviria stages a prison transfer to find Escobar. Escobar then kid naps the president’s worker and holds him hostage for revenge. The mode of this episode was through the presidential speeches against Escobar. Leading to anybody following the political drama in the show would be the audience. With the presidential speech there is a demonstrative genre because he is declaring the War on Drugs. The style of this show is aimed towards the history of the cartel drama and the drug lord, Pablo Escobar.