Tyson Smith Gavin Bush
Under the Sea
Rhetorical Analysis of The song "Under the Sea" within the film of "The Little Mermaid"
Who Delivered it?
Sebastian the Crab Delivered the speech, being known as a court composer and serves at King Triton’s bidding
The BAsis
The song "Under the Sea" is a plea by the crab Sebastian, along with other sea creatures he encouters, attempting convincing Ariel to remain sea-bound, and resist her desire to become a human in order to spend her life with Prince Eric, with whom she has fallen in love with.
Audience
The intended audience of the song was of course:
Ariel
Context
Start
Song
the crab Sebastian attempts to convince Ariel to remain sea-bound, and resist her desire to become a human to spend her life with Prince Eric.
a young mermaid named Ariel, who is captivated by the world upon the surface. When she falls in love with a human prince.
Escalation
Ariel hopes to further explore the world past the surface and meet with the prince
Exigence
Reason
persuasion
Stop
All this is done by the hope of stopping Ariel from going to the surface
Stops Ariel from swimming away to the surface
Sebastian begins listing and talking about all of the good things "Under the Sea"
Choices
Personification
Imagery
Many of the fish or sea creatures get personified.
Sebastian has great use of imagery
"The newt play the flute
The carp play the harp
The plaice play the bass
And they soundin' sharp
The bass play the brass
The chub play the tub"
In the song, Sebastian's creative word usage, and dynamic diction creates many vivid images Ariel could think of like.... "The seaweed is always greener"
Ethos
Dangers
"Nobody beat us
Fry us and eat us
In fricassee" states "us" due to speaking for all fish in the sea including ariel too.
Problems with "the surface" such as where they "work all day" or the fish in the fish bowls on land.
Logos
Pathos
"Down here all the fish is happy
As off through the waves they roll
The fish on the land ain't happy", he does this to hope to make Ariel feel the surface isn't safe.
He lists all the good things about being under the sea whislt down playing the life on the surface.
Tone
The tone sebastian delivers the song with seems very determined but also joyful in hopes to keep ariel Under the sea.
You can easily see the tone shift when he speaks of the Surface to a less jovial tone in comparison to his happy demener related to being under the sea.
Thank you!
It was clear throughout this analysis you could tell Sebastians true motive was to create a bad image in the name of the surface, whilst creating an image for the sea that there's no better. He used many forms of rhetoric when it came to appeals, choices or even his forms of figurative language.
Under the sea, Tyson Smith, Gavin Bush
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Created on October 11, 2024
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Tyson Smith Gavin Bush
Under the Sea
Rhetorical Analysis of The song "Under the Sea" within the film of "The Little Mermaid"
Who Delivered it?
Sebastian the Crab Delivered the speech, being known as a court composer and serves at King Triton’s bidding
The BAsis
The song "Under the Sea" is a plea by the crab Sebastian, along with other sea creatures he encouters, attempting convincing Ariel to remain sea-bound, and resist her desire to become a human in order to spend her life with Prince Eric, with whom she has fallen in love with.
Audience
The intended audience of the song was of course:
Ariel
Context
Start
Song
the crab Sebastian attempts to convince Ariel to remain sea-bound, and resist her desire to become a human to spend her life with Prince Eric.
a young mermaid named Ariel, who is captivated by the world upon the surface. When she falls in love with a human prince.
Escalation
Ariel hopes to further explore the world past the surface and meet with the prince
Exigence
Reason
persuasion
Stop
All this is done by the hope of stopping Ariel from going to the surface
Stops Ariel from swimming away to the surface
Sebastian begins listing and talking about all of the good things "Under the Sea"
Choices
Personification
Imagery
Many of the fish or sea creatures get personified.
Sebastian has great use of imagery
"The newt play the flute The carp play the harp The plaice play the bass And they soundin' sharp The bass play the brass The chub play the tub"
In the song, Sebastian's creative word usage, and dynamic diction creates many vivid images Ariel could think of like.... "The seaweed is always greener"
Ethos
Dangers
"Nobody beat us Fry us and eat us In fricassee" states "us" due to speaking for all fish in the sea including ariel too.
Problems with "the surface" such as where they "work all day" or the fish in the fish bowls on land.
Logos
Pathos
"Down here all the fish is happy As off through the waves they roll The fish on the land ain't happy", he does this to hope to make Ariel feel the surface isn't safe.
He lists all the good things about being under the sea whislt down playing the life on the surface.
Tone
The tone sebastian delivers the song with seems very determined but also joyful in hopes to keep ariel Under the sea.
You can easily see the tone shift when he speaks of the Surface to a less jovial tone in comparison to his happy demener related to being under the sea.
Thank you!
It was clear throughout this analysis you could tell Sebastians true motive was to create a bad image in the name of the surface, whilst creating an image for the sea that there's no better. He used many forms of rhetoric when it came to appeals, choices or even his forms of figurative language.