RHETOR 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Proxy War
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Proxy war between french and the portuguese - french wins most of the time. Rituals are done to fulfil certain ends - to make a change in the social and real world. We, and not the savage, are corrupt and artificial - our culture is only a guise and a. They are savages at the same rate that we say fruit are wild rhetoric. Man was given a wife and allowed to roam free. Adopts the native culture and goes naked. Volunteers to make gunpowder for the king (thinks that can buy his freedom by doing good deeds) The wife wanted to love a man that acted like a real man, not a portuguese who weeps (womanly) - thus teaches the frenchman what the ceremony is like and how he must act. Being eaten is regenerate, don"t want to eat a man who acts like a woman.