Logos ethos and pathos are forms of
persuasion used by an author or speaker to sway the reader to their particular
point of view. In Yann Dall'Aglio’s presentation: Love You’re doing it wrong,
he uses ethos not only to connect with the audience, but to get them to alter
their view on how easy it is to not focus on the yourself and find love more
easily as well. He initially starts with a personal anecdote, which not only
makes him relatable to some audience members, but also helps display him as an
authority on the topic. His introduction shows the audience that he is
certified in a sense to speak on the subject. And that they can feel assured in
using his advice in their everyday lives.
Toni Morrison on the other hand
uses pathos to persuade the reader. The author uses strong negative emotions such
as cheated, puzzled, betrayed, as well as strong positive emotions such as
casual effortless and delightful. Describing emotions that the readers both
love and hate to experience, allows the author to build a connection with the
reader, and thus allows easier insight to their point of view.
In “Love- You’re Doing it Wrong,” Yann Dall’Aglio basis much of his speech on ethos. First he immediately establishes himself as a married man, so he already has credibility when talking about love. The chaste young woman, the 2nd son, the 13th modernity, right off the bat he’s giving a bunch of examples as to why he should be believed. He goes on to talk about modernity and how it’s given people choices regarding how they want to live. He then brings up MTV, something popular with younger people, and he pokes holes in the show about picking up chicks. He says the word ‘one-itis’ is disgusting, making a slight pathos appeal to the audience by using an easily imaginable word. He’s established himself as an experienced person, by having these opinions on a show for the younger generations. He establishes himself as useless so that he can then say that everyone is useless. By doing so, he can get to his point without offending anyone. Through ethos people will view Dall’Aglio as an experienced man who’s done his research and knows what he’s talking about.
ReplyDeleteBoth Toni Morrison and Yann Dall'Aglio display a heavy use of the rhetorical strategy of pathos to appeal to their respected audiences. Dall' Aglio immediately wins over the viewer by joking about the comparison of the love for his wife and the love for escalopes. Morrison, on the other hand, immeaditely displays pathos when she describes the "feeling of welcome [washing] over [her]." Each emotions are very relatable and help ease the audience into the reading/ speech.
ReplyDeleteIn Love -- you're doing it wrong Yann Dall’Aglio how love less about feelings for someone and more about being wanted or desired. How Yann Dall’Aglio puts it “Love is the desire of being desired. Hence the eternal problem of love: how to become and remain desirable?” he continue to talk about how the individual is the answer to the problem. The answer is locked inside of us we don’t know what we want but we know we want it. Which is the main reason we are all useless. It goes back to being desired, that all we want in life is for someone to desire us but we don’t have any value of our own. We don’t notice this until its pointed out and even then we turn a blind eye but when you ask someone if they value themselves they say “yes”. At the end of Yann Dall’Aglio’s presentation he refers to self-mockery. “I refer to self-mockery. For a couple who is no longer sustained, supported by the constraints of tradition, I believe that self-mockery is one of the best means for the relationship to endure.” He saying that the only way a relationship can endure is if you make fun of it.
ReplyDeletePathos is the most used rhetorical device in Toni Morrison’s work, “Strangers”. Toni describes the several emotions that she had felt all due to a stranger she had met for fifteen minutes outside her house. Morrison starts by describing the experience as welcoming and effortless when after the minor change of the fisher woman not being there the next day Morrison’s emotions seem to slowly erupt. Though this little fifteen-minute interaction between Morrison and the fisher woman was purely anecdotal it bothered her personally knowing that she may never see this particular person and that person won’t see me either. There is this notion of longing and wanting to see yourself through everyone you see which I believe Yann Dall'Aglio described well in his video “Love- You’re Doing It Wrong”. Yann uses pathos throughout his speech at first by making a joke of how much he loves escallop’s to how much he loves his wife. This immediately connects to many in his audience who may have a wife or loved one and this also connects to anyone who may have thought that was funny, which seemed to be most of the audience. Later Yann talks about how we only perceive ourselves through the eyes of others, and that he is useless, inherently, without someone else to make him feel valued. Yann uses ethos here by telling the audience not to feel bad for him, for being useless, because we are all useless. Now Yann has connected to the audience by using simple language throughout to describe this elegant point while at the same time making a joke that we all don’t have meaning. Toni Morrison takes more advantage of the use of pathos to draw in the reader by describing her emotions in detail. Yann takes advantage of both pathos and ethos by connecting to the audience with an emotional appeal while also using simple language in order to not be overbearing.
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