Neo- Classical
Aristotle’s
proofs consist of ethos, pathos, and logos. Marvel’s Agent Carter evokes all
three of Aristotle’s proofs throughout the series, but mainly pathos. Aristotle’s
pathos is the emotional feelings that the speaker is trying to make the
audience feel, as a result, connecting the audience to the speaker on a deeper
level. Prior to the beginning of the series, Agent Peggy Carter lost the love
of her life, Captain America, during the war. During the first season of
Marvel’s Agent Carter, Peggy had a lot of flashbacks of her time with Captain
America and how she suffered once she lost him. Through these flashbacks, you
can feel the hurt that she’s feeling because you can genuinely see that she
really loved him and misses him. In the second season we see a transition where
she begins a romantic relationship with another person, making the audience
feel happy for her because she can finally move on and be happy. In a
particular scene where Agent Carter believes that her new love interest Dr.
Wilkes is believed to be dead after an explosion in a laboratory, she becomes
heartbroken. Even though she tries to brush it off as if though she doesn’t care,
she really does because she was starting to develop feelings for him. A couple
of scenes later it is discovered that he is alive and she rejoices to see that
he is not dead, but rather than letting her feelings speak for themselves, she
uses work as an excuse for her being happy since she blames herself for Dr.
Wilkes being in the moment of the explosion in the first place. All of the
emotions that Agent Peggy Carter is feeling are relatable to her audience
because they are invested in not only seeing her defeat her enemies but they
also want her to be successful in her love life.
~Kasandra
