When we wonder what Pathos and Ethos really mean we tend to
wonder, which one we are focusing on the most when we communicate with one
another. Yann Dall'Aglio describes in his Ted speech, “Love —You're Doing It
Wrong”. Dall'Anglio begins with certain common things that most people love in certain
ways. He explains, “I can love jogging. I can love a book, a movie. I can love escalope.
I can love my wife.” Even though these explanations sound basic in Dall’Aglio
point of view. However, it gives the audience a sense of humor that gives a connection
with the speaker. This is the use of ethos by him attracting his audience that
they can somewhat relate too or gives a good interest worth listening to that
persuaded the audience. Dall’Aglio even continues connecting with the audience of,
“How desirable” men can be when it comes to love and by doing this, he calls
this method “act of collecting.” He demonstrates that “our consumer society is
largely based on seduction capital.” Meaning that men tend to do certain things
that would get a women’s attention as a way to seduce them. However, he also
explains why that, “We only accumulate objects in order to communicate with
other minds.” In other words, it’s a way to start a conversation that gives a
certain communicate with that person even if they have meet each other for the
first time. The audience is also again interested in what Dall’Aglio is explaining
in his speech that drives the audience to listen more to what he is persuading them
to do. For Toni Morrison “Strangers”, Morrison uses ethos with a first point of
view, “I”. She expresses her own in story as well by describing her feelings
being lost after not seeing the woman again. Morrison says, “I feel cheated,
puzzled, but also amused.” Toni’s emotions can be very relatable through her
words and explanation of how she feels. It gives more of the emotional
connection that the audience tends to be very interested in Toni’s experience.
The obvious rhetorical strategy used in these texts is pathos in the text “Strangers” it’s composed mostly by emotional appeal, because not only does she make the reader reevaluate their actions towards meeting a stranger and judging them on the spot without getting to truly meet them she does this by using the narration of the encounter with “mother something” The description she uses towards this woman makes the reader feel sympathy by the simple fact that she lives far away and that she’s an elderly it just makes the reader more emotionally engaged and drawn to the point Toni Morrison what’s to give off which is that we shouldn’t be quick to judge without taking the time to get to know someone
ReplyDeleteYann Dall’Aglio’s speech “love, you’re doing it wrong” also gives an emotional appeal (pathos) by providing everyday scenarios that the readers can relate to easily and the reader becomes more engaged and somewhat connected, he also demonstrates the pathos approach towards the end of his essay when he refers to “love as tenderness” appealing to one’s emotions once again. This essay also contains several points inclined to an ethical approach by demonstrating to be a credible source to the audience utilizing proper vocabulary and expertise.
The rhetorical strategy used in "Love You're Doing it Wrong," Yann Dall'Aglio's I could only get a little bit of information but he elaborates by interacting with the audience. He engages with them by making jokes and just using different scenarios for both the audience and viewers to get a better understanding as well as people who can relate to his narrative story. In "Strangers," she is talking to a woman. She seems strange because not only she doesn't live in the same area but the owner allows her to fish whenever she wants and it is interesting how Morrison describes the different scenes. He narrates by using ethos with the saying "I," describes first point of view. It gets hectic when she starts describing like how everything make her feel about meeting strangers which is using pathos.
ReplyDeleteIn Toni Morrison’s “Strangers”, the author uses ethos to persuade her readers. She establishes credibility by telling her readers about a time she met a woman in her neighbor’s yard. She introduces this woman to help introduce her idea that we envision strangers the way we want to see them. Toni Morrison saw this fisher woman as a potential friend, because she was longing for a friend. However, when she learned how the woman did not seek permission to fish in that location the narrator felt “cheated, puzzled, but also amused.” This pushed for Morrison’s idea that “There are only versions of ourselves” when we meet strangers.
ReplyDeleteAdditionally In Yann Dall'Aglio’s “Love, You’re Doing it Wrong”, the speaker also uses ethos to persuade his audience. Like Toni Morrison, he establishes credibility by talking about things he loves and things that love him. He introduces his wife saying that he understands the role love has in everyday life. He states that love between two people comes from the need to feel of value to someone else in order to feel of value to yourself. Dall’Aglio argues that our self-concept is shaped from the perceptions of others, and he does so successfully by incorporating credibility in his speech.
As you said, in “Strangers” Morrison sets up an emotional appeal in the beginning of her essay with a narrative that leads into her point of the explanation of strangers. The emotional appeal is present when she explains how she wonders why such an old woman would make her feel the way she did when the old woman did not return. She wrote, “My instant embrace of an outrageously dressed fisherwoman was due in part to an image on which my representation of her was based” (Morrison, 137). Meaning she thought a certain way of the woman, even before though they had met. She had certain ideas that tied to her own portrayal of the woman and that portrayal changed when the woman agreed to return and did not. As also in “Love – You’re Doing it Wrong”, love is known to be an emotionally attached subject. Yann Dall’Aglio explains that love is known to be something people must have certain qualifications for. He then explains that that is not true. Love is something that cannot be measured in the quantity of showing off to someone, rather than truly showing what it is you’ve got to offer that are not materialistic. Qualities that cannot be bought.
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