Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Ethos , Logos, Pathos
Every day we persuade people by using Ethos, Logos, and Pathos. We might not realize it because it's a habit, but those are our persuasive techniques. Both texts talk abut a certain aspect of love but they approach the topic in a different way. In the text "Strangers," Toni Morrison uses a more emotional tone, which portrays he's using the idea of Pathos. By using pathos, he's helping us feel all the emotions he describes in the text. He feels shallow or empty after the woman doesn't come back and for us to feel persuaded onto the way he feels he uses Pathos. While on the other hand in the video "Love-- You're Doing It Wrong" the speaker is using Ethos. He talks about his wife and gives a small practical joke to engage with the crowd. He wants to make the audience believe that they can connect with him and that what he's saying is correct.
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I agree that the speaker, Yann Dall' Aglio, in the video "Love-- You're Doing It Wrong" uses ethos. However, I believe that Toni Morrison who wrote "Strangers" also uses ethos. When he speaks, we see that Yann Dall' Aglio's ethos is different from Toni Morrisons ethos, but they are also similar. Dall' Aglio uses humor to show that he is a funny guy, he talks about his wife to show that he is in a committed relationship, and he states all these facts to support his claim to show that he is intellegent and to show that he knows what he is doing, what he is trying to explain. All of this allows the audience to trust him and soak up the information that he is dishing out. Because of the way he talks and laughs and is always smiling he has a calm and friendly sense to him. On the other hand, Morrison towards the end of her story becomes a little intense and philosophical. Her ethos is that she is very intelligent due to all the philosophy she uses to support her claims. She also uses a story in the beginning about her experience with a stranger making her likable when she talks about greeting the stranger and relatable when she talks about the stranger lying to her. Morrisons ethos is more philosophical yet relatable while Dall'Aglio ethos is more calm and and trustworthy.
ReplyDeleteIn both Toni Morrison’s essay “Strangers” and in Yann Dall’Aglio’s Ted Talk “Love- you’re doing it wrong”, I believe that they are both using pathos. In Toni Morrison’s essay she uses it by painting a vivid picture of an experience that meant a lot to her, and then it was taken away from her. She is trying to make us think of an experience similar to the one she talks about so we can connect to her on an emotional level. Then, in Yann Dall’Aglio’s Ted Talk, he tries to connect with the audience by making himself likable by making jokes and seeming very reliable, someone you wouldn’t mind speaking to on the street, for example. Both of the readings try to make us connect on some level to what they are saying, whether it be through jokes or making us remember an emotional experience that will help us connect with the rest of the essay.
ReplyDeleteTo me, in both "Love-- You're Doing it Wrong," and in Toni Morrison's essay "Strangers," there is a very strong sense of pathos that hasn't been accounted for here. Yann Dall'Aglio uses humor, much like you said to connect with his audience. While using humor in a somewhat serious topic may help with his use of ethos, I think he uses his humor as pathos in order to lighten the subject (love) and bring it down to Earth in a sense. Similarly, in Toni Morrison's essay, she uses pathos through her very descriptive wording. She gives the audience a perspective that enables the reader to step into the character's shoes. The reason that Toni Morrison does this is because when she finally reaches her point toward the end of her essay, that the character was missing some aspect of himself, she wants the reader to come to a similar realization about themselves. So, by using pathos, the goal of both Toni Morrison and Yann Dall'Aglio was to drive their points home by making it personal and relatable to the audience.
ReplyDeleteIn the podcast “Love your doing it wrong”. Yann Dall'Aglio uses rederic to help teach his audience about love and it changed over time. He starts out as he can love many things but these things won’t love him back as like his wife would. He goes on to claim that during the 13th century the world began to change from a new way of thinking and so did our value of love. It came in a three step process which caused this innovative thinking. One, the technology and involve things proved to people that we can create new things form ideas and thus leads to number Two. Two takes us to personal rights and created this “me, me, me” environment. Last came in the economic production way which triggered the way we take pride in objects and want to fill the need with idles for the longing of love. In the presentation he uses pathos appeals to emotion in the form of pride and vanity of the things we treasure.
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