A Dramatistic Pentad Analysis of Louis Farrakhan\u27s Million Man March Speech

This study analyzed Louis Farrakhan\u27s Million Man March speech to examine the five areas of investigations provided by Kenneth Burke\u27s Dramatistic Pentad Analysis. As a result, this study furnished a fascinating look at Louis Farrakhan\u27s rhetoric for the Million Man March. Farrakhan\u27s rhetoric for the Million Man March was based around the problems affecting the black community. A theoretical background was structured based on Burke\u27s Pentad Analysis. The five elements of investigation created by Burke were the: (1) Act, (2) Scene, (3) Agent, ( 4) Agency and ( 5) Purpose. All of the studied areas of the theoretical background created, provided an in-depth guideline in studying the rhetorical motives of Louis Farrakhan. Of the selected passages from Farrakhan\u27s speech, each passage was deciphered and analyzed for its validity directed toward the black community. Passages were found to have specific motives in addressing the plight of the black male in America. The analysis formulated then examine the rhetorical motives of the sample speech by explaining the complex rhetoric used by Louis Farrakhan