In “Love – You’re Doing It Wrong”, speaker Yann Dall'Aglio uses a
plethora of ethos and pathos to get his point across. The first notable
strategy he utilizes begins in the first minute and continues throughout the
speech, such as, “I can love jogging. I can love a book, a movie. I can love
escalopes. I can love my wife”. This is a simple use of pathos in the form of
personal anecdote, and will appeal to those who can relate to Dall’Aglio about
jogging, reading, etc. He uses personal experiences and intimate thoughts many
times, usually after explaining a statistic or evidence in order to connect
with his listeners by creating a feeling of emotional or social understanding, and
consequently get his point across. Yann Dall’Aglio also utilizes ethos by
harnessing the controversial power of several hypotheticals, for example: “Now
individuals are free to value or disvalue any attitude, any choice, any object.
But as a result, they are themselves confronted with this same freedom that
others have to value or disvalue them.” By questioning the reasoning of a
seemingly natural right that all humans beings are given in present society, a
serious question of ethical importance emerges and the listener in effect is
more interested.
In “Strangers”,
Toni Morrison offers his own selection of ethos and pathos, and similar to Dall’Aglio
– uses both. First off, the center of this essay is based on the example of the
speaker meeting a strange fisherwoman, and Morrison’s tone while describing her
in the first paragraph evoke a sense of passion and wonder towards the woman.
This attitude towards her is a use of pathos, to indirectly connect the reader
with the speaker by elaborately and intriguingly describing her, so that the
perspective on the fisherwoman is one of importance. In turn, this connection
that is made is then used to ultimately convey the strangeness of human
reaction using ethos materialized as thought experiments and general philosophical
pondering about the deeper mechanics of humans. A specific example can be seen
when Toni Morrison describes how media affects the opinion people have of themselves
and how they then expect it of other people, therefore forcing the reader to
question the ethics behind media and how other forces affect them in general.
Toni Morrison’s piece “Strangers”, seems to focus more on the appeal of emotion (pathos) more than ethos. Morrison kind of just jumps into her story about the woman fishing on her neighbor’s property and doesn’t really set up the piece with her background or anything like that. She focus on a sentimental story and how our wiliness to be open to strangers is more representative of us being open to different versions of ourselves. Morrison uses a few different Pathos tactics including and appeal to belonging when she talks about her excitement to meet to woman again and the sense of comradery she felt. Sympathy when she expresses her disappointment upon realizing the woman wasn’t honest and probably never returning. And to a small degree fear, or maybe anger when suggesting that the media helps subconsciously “… narrow our view of what humans look like (or ought to look like) and what in fact we are like.” On the other hand in the ted talk “Love – You’re Doing It Wrong” by Yann Dall’Aglio, he set up with some very personal feeling conversational speech. He tells us he’s a married man which helps give him a sense of qualification on the topic of love. He makes much stronger use of Ethos than Toni Morrison does in her writing.
ReplyDeleteIn "strangers", Toni Morrison uses a lot of pathos references to describe his feelings toward the fisherwoman. For example, when Toni Morrison said " I feel cheated, puzzled, but also amused, and wonder off and on if I have dreamed her". From this example it makes the audience have a different opinion about the fisherwoman. This quote makes the audience feel the same as Toni Morrison , like she a liar or she is a crazy woman that lives in the woods.
ReplyDeleteThe essay "Strangers", relies heavily on pathos to create an emotional connection between the audience and the author as well as Mother Something. Morrison drives the reader in by describing the apparent connection between himself and Mother Something; when he meets her and he is filled with a sense of wonder and friendship, so when later it is revealed he never sees her again the audience feels and senses the same sense of betrayal that Morrison felt. The use of pathos is again seen in the video "Love You're Doing it Wrong", Dall’Aglio uses pathos less compared to "Strangers", but still uses pathos by describing what he can love such as his wife, a book, a movie to connect and relate to the typical audience member the common things they share in love. This emotional connection that he has now established, allows the reader to relate and understand his overall message later on in his speech.
ReplyDeleteIn "strangers, the author, Toni Morrison uses pathos as a way to attract the audience. He tells us a story about a woman who he sees fishing at his neighbors house and has a wonderful conversation with. As the two finish up their conversation Morrison says he can "imagine more conversations...Imagine a friendship". When he returns the next day and the woman is not there nor does anybody know about the woman he is talking about he begins to feel a sense of loss. In Yann Dall'Agilos "Love-you're doing it wrong, he uses both, a little of ethos and a little of pathos. Pathos is used when he mentions himself as an example at the beginning and his love for his wife. Dall'Agilo also uses ethos. As he goes more and more into depth about love and his view on it, more examples are being used to make his point clear. I believe that these examples make the audience more understanding and can connect with what he is saying.
ReplyDeleteIn "Strangers" by Toni Morrison, the author begins the novel with pathos probably to attract the attention of the reader, with a nice anecdote of an encounter with an old woman who is a curious character we come to find out later in the story, as the story goes on Toni begins to use logos to explain the view of why she believed the encounter with the old woman was of value to her. In the video “Love, you’re doing it wrong” the speaker begins by using pathos to create a connection with the listener, by giving an insight to his life about how he can love multiple things, but in different ways. Then again uses logos to explain his opinions.
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