Rhetorical Triangle of Cotton Mather's Diary
Speaker: Cotton Mather
Audience: No audience: he was writing his thoughts and feelings without intending for anyone else to hear or read.
Topic: Mather writes about the struggles and distresses of his daily life where he is attempting to resist the temptation of a "gentlewoman." He writes about how he has developed a relationship with a woman and how he wants to deal with said woman, and how his religious views are incorporated into his life and help determine his decisions. The diary reveals the emotional struggles Mather is experiencing with the death of his wife and the admiration he is receiving from the "gentlewoman", but at the end of the diary he is able to meet another woman he is able to be more comfortable and be himself with. Also once his wife died he seemed to get over it after crying about her before finding another relationship.
Audience: No audience: he was writing his thoughts and feelings without intending for anyone else to hear or read.
Topic: Mather writes about the struggles and distresses of his daily life where he is attempting to resist the temptation of a "gentlewoman." He writes about how he has developed a relationship with a woman and how he wants to deal with said woman, and how his religious views are incorporated into his life and help determine his decisions. The diary reveals the emotional struggles Mather is experiencing with the death of his wife and the admiration he is receiving from the "gentlewoman", but at the end of the diary he is able to meet another woman he is able to be more comfortable and be himself with. Also once his wife died he seemed to get over it after crying about her before finding another relationship.