Introduction
For years, Hollywood has shifted the perfect male body model from Errol Flynn to Arnold Schwarzenegger. According to McClelland's essay titled "The Lure of the Body Image," the North American media has changed their opinions on male beauty, which has resulted in the widespread "beefcake-like" looks. The author identifies the fashionable look for men as a serious problem. In another short magazine essay written for Mother Jones magazine in 1982, Atwood asks the viewer to think deeply about the topics as she debates how Canadians laugh at US imperialism. The two articles seem intent on eliciting the readers to change their behavior and thinking in response to the issues presented. By looking further at the writers purposes, it is still fascinating to contrast their tones and methods. This metaphoric approach should help to sharpen and be thoughtful of the reason (Ward 196).
Different Tones and Methods
McClelland article reflects Maclean consent to present considerate, relatively reportage respond to present events for a well educated general readership as illustrated by an excerpt from paragraph 3: Both Signorile [author of the book Life Outside] and Brian Pronger... say that many men, straight and gay, adopted a more generative appearance following the Oscar Wilde trials in the 1890s linked effeminate behavior with homosexuality in the modern mind (McClelland 447).
The phrase comes from the passage with a Fog Index reading of 17.5, which indicates that a reader requires having a university degree to assemble the data with simplicity. Another phrase from Atwood work gives a divergence result from the passage in McClelland and here is the excerpt: Last month during poetry extract, it began by insinuating that one start with the feet.
Furthermore, McClelland article insists on the demand for the university degree for readability ease, while Atwood article requires a formal education of approximately grade eight. Mother Jones, a political magazine, was not troubled by the appearances of argumentations in both articles as claimed. The readers were not classified by an educational level so much as by a political viewpoint, more of emotional than logical (Atwood 467). This is better than Maclean news to favor novel approaches over the research-based techniques. Readably formulae cannot reveal emotional nuances of tone hence the tone seem intentional. However, they help to provide a preface sense of the necessary levels being informal, general, or formal. McClelland, as per this analysis, applies the tone that is relatively formal, that is she incorporates original reference style examples whereas Atwood is between formal and general.
Differences in Methods
Checking closely at abstract methods in the two essays, the analysis further characterizes the difference among the tones in the articles. McClelland utilizes the third person that increases the tone of relative independence and disinterest. Including this nearly scholarly tone, the author regularly refers to various studies, experts, and statistical results. In the quoted text, she notes that one expert agrees with another, illustrating the need to get confirmation from various researchers. On the other hand, Atwood uses the first person to increase the personal and informal tone of her article. Whereas McClelland tonal variation can be described as reserved, muted, and distant, Atwood drives her essay in an ironical, joyful, and witty manner as illustrated in paragraph nine of the essay regarding what Americans say. In general language, Atwood articulates reversals so as to serve her theme of one-way relationships pretending to be another thing else. In addition to the differences between the tones in the two essays, particularly in Atwood's utilization of real experiences compared to McClelland's use of outside resources, Atwood relies on the similarities of the two articles to bring out her point. She tends to design her analogy and applies the correlation in style of the oral teacher by using a parable, while McClelland presents conclusive ideas through the cited reasoning of her natural sources. In paragraph 7, Atwood uses the primary readers that are the Americans to depict Mexico having a population that is ten times larger than that of the United States. She appeals from the judgment of analogy for unique understanding (Ward 198).
Common Persuasive Purpose
In spite of the distinctions in tone, both essays convey a common persuasive purpose that is tailored towards driving and addressing the series of victimizations. McClelland overshadows the purpose with an opening anecdote that focuses on Heighton of Pictou, NS. In most parts of the text, the author uses personal examples or rather warm proofs. The hidden meaning that is expressed by the examples in Body Image is that the young people are forced to beef up as the author illustrates at the end of the opening paragraph. Heighton further states that the effects can have dire consequences like the use of steroids, surgical disfiguration, and eating disorders (McClelland 450). In the event of getting the readers prepared, McClelland puts some emotional sentiments of opinion into her significantly detached style, for instance, statistics show an alarming number and one of the consequences (McClelland 451). The readers who are familiar with Chomsky's Survival or Hegemony may see the basic relationship between Atwood's critique of the American imperialism and some of the current analyses that have become in most cases increasingly strident and desperate. The two essays seek to depict severe power imbalances and manipulations (Ward 196).
Differences in Views
A critical reader may wonder whether there exist any fundamental differences of purpose in McClelland's paper that lay emphasis on advertising of images and the negative impacts they may bring forth. Atwood, on the other hand, differs a little with McClelland views with regards to this as she refers Canadians complicity in their victimization by the Unites States. She explains that only Americans are not to blame. Such concessions and reassurances that are absent in McClelland work make sense when a person thinks of Atwood intended audience. It may seem though McClelland is addressing the Canadians on how to like Americans, her target readers are the Americans on how to like the Canadians. McClelland is advocating for the best attitude the Americans should have so as to build the real friendship with the Canadians. This brief analysis tends to bring out how the two essays portray specific issues concerning what some of the readers today may consider as complex and long-standing. In paragraph 10, McClelland concludes by calling for increased critical education. Atwood corrective offering is depicted in her analogy that is the tool for reasoning to make a significant and broader understanding. In their different ways, the two essays identify the approaches and styles best suited to the situations at hand during the original publication as they also apply the fundamental principles of changing opinion.
Works Cited
Atwood, Margaret. Canadians: What Do They Want? Acting on Words: An Integrated Rhetoric, Reader, and Handbook. 2nd . ed. Ed. David Brundage and Michael Lahey. Toronto: Pearson, 2009. 467-469.
McClelland, Susan. The Lure of the Body Image. Acting on Words: An Integrated Rhetoric, Reader, and Handbook. 2nd . ed. Ed. David Brundage and Michael Lahey. Toronto: Pearson, 2009. 447-451.
Ward, David. Speculative Fiction. Contemporary Italian Narrative and 1970s Terrorism. Springer International Publishing, 2017. 195-205.
