The Dramatistic Pentad

The Dramatistic Pentad is what stood out to me in chapter 22. The five crucial elements of human drama – act, scene, agent, agency, and purpose and the similarity of the writing practice who, what, where, when, why, and how made it easy for me to understand the concept of the elements of the pentad. These descriptions offer a way of determining why a speaker used a specific rhetorical strategy. The act is what was done, the scene represents where and when the act was done, the agent is the person who performed the act, the agency is the means used to perform the act, and the purpose is the goal of the act. I referred to these elements when watching the presidential debate. The act was the debate, the scene was Tuesday at Ohio State University, the agent was Obama or McCain, the agency as I saw it was media and the purpose or should I say goal of the act was to get the voters support. If you watched the debate let me know if you described the elements in the same way or if you interpreted them differently. I’d be interested to know.