Picture taken from the game itself.

Rhetorical Analysis: 

We Become What We Behold

Fall 2019

I stumbled on “We Become What We Behold” one day when browsing the internet for something to entertain me for a couple minutes, and it has stuck in my mind ever since. So when, during my History of Rhetoric class (where we explored rhetorical theories from across time and space) my professor challenged us to apply some of the rhetorical concepts we’d been studying to an unusual piece of media, WBWWB instantly popped into my head, as well as Aristotles’ three responsibilities of a rhetor: they must choose virtuously to avoid incurring reason-destroying passions in their audiences; they have a responsibility to act as wisely and effectively as possible to achieve good ends; and lastly they must adapt to their audience, including putting them in the proper frame of mind. 

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The paper is below as a PDF titled “WBWWB Analysis.”