e Portfolio Introduction The Exorcist Rhetoric Finish reading The ExorcistWrite a Introduction of my ePortfolio about the book “The Exorcist” (Part I – Par

e Portfolio Introduction The Exorcist Rhetoric Finish reading The ExorcistWrite a Introduction of my ePortfolio about the book “The Exorcist” (Part I – Part IV). The Intro Samples is the sample of the introduction. This Introduction is about Rhetoric Analysis. Don’t make it too vague. Thank you!!! 1
Introduction
Some of the most unforgettable moments in The Exorcist are those involving supernatural
transgressions of natural laws; a bed that floats defying gravity, a back bend that defies anatomy,
or knowledge without education all tend to strike terror in the audience. But in these moments,
perhaps it is the defeat of personal will that is the most terrifying, as when the bed floats there is
no effort the onlookers can exert to stop it. This disconnect between effort and outcome is at the
center of this horror which diminishes the significance of the human will, degrading our
individual efforts that seem futile in the face of unknowable powers and knowable limitations.
Perhaps the only certainty of life, death itself, is one used in the novel to show this confrontation
between will and surrender, most notably in one of Chris’ terrifying dreams of death. In her
dream, the force of her will is in full effect as she struggles to resist death by “gasping,
dissolving, [and] slipping off into void,” and she begs her father to “not let them” take her away
(Blatty 36). Blatty uses the word “let” here to mark the fatal intersection between a human
certainty, death, and the hopeless inability to surrender and simply let it be. The following
argument will not dissect death’s final challenge to the will, but rather will show that Blatty’s
central message is that both perceptual operations of the mind and the violent nature of anger
subvert the will, leaving us the key of surrender as a way to escape futile resistance. The mind
itself is a deceptive force that flouts the individual’s will, and violent anger similarly makes
personal effort ineffective and futile as they cut into the self from the outside like a powerful
external force. Blatty reduces the will to dust to deliver his message that surrender is an ideal
worth holding on to even more so than willful dominance, and he uses Father Merrin’s powerful
contemplation of natural beauty to show his audience that surrender can save what the individual
will cannot rescue.

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