review 3- rhetorical analysis

  This rhetorical analysis is over a letter written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, an English poet in the 19th century, to Napoleon III regarding Victor Hugos banishment due to his strange and critical writing pieces. 

   Because he is the emperor of France, Browning writes in a respectful manner in order to acknowledge the power he possesses. In the beginning, she introduces herself as being a woman, wife of an English poet, showing her inferiority to him at the time. She also writes in a tone that would suggest she is pleading Napoleon III to kindly see her reasoning as to why he should bring back Victor Hugo. By talking mighty of the emperor as well as showing her own weakness, the letter seems to be a constant beg for him to pardon Hugo. Browning uses phrases such as "your Majesty", ""I have trusted you for doing greatly" and others to make him favorable by her inferiority to him and having him believe he is of high importance. The reason as to why she must have used these words and phrases may be to appeal to him in a sense that would boost his ego. Once he feels powerful and important by her tone, he might listen to what she has to say because of the way she is kissing up to him.