In Yann Dall'Aglio’s video “Love -- you're doing it wrong”
and Toni Morrison’s essay “Strangers”, both of them use pathos, ethos or logos
as their rhetoric strategies. Yann Dall'Aglio’s video uses pathos and talks
about how people fear being undesirable. Dall'Aglio says how the thought of
being undesirable causes people to be “obsessed: ‘Am I desirable? How
desirable? How many people are going to love me?’ And how does he respond to
this anxiety? Well, by hysterically collecting symbols of desirability,” (3:32).
Dall'Aglio also uses ethos by not showing off in his presentation, he uses
comical examples throughout his presentation like in 4:06 “Nothing could be
less materialistic, or more sentimental, than a teenager buying brand new jeans
and tearing them at the knees, because he wants to please Jennifer,” To entertain
his audience and keep them engaged. In Toni Morrison’s essay uses pathos to get
sympathy from the audience by talking about how she felt when the girl on the
bridge stopped showing up. Morrison said “I feel cheated, puzzled, but also
amused,” (Morrison 136) to get the sympathy of the audience to feel the same
way as her. Morrison also uses logos through generalization in page 136 “Isn’t that
the kind of thing that we fear strangers will do? Disturb. Betray. Prove that they
are not like us,” She generalizes the public to be sacred to be proved wrong. Morrison
also describes her personal life in details and lets the audience feel connected,
while Dall'Aglio uses examples and analogies and makes it less personal but
still entertaining.
I agree that that was one way how pathos was used in the video, however Yann Dall'Aglio, uses pathos when he says "love is the desire of being desired" this portrays that people find worth in themselves whenever someone else sees them being worthy of their desire. Also Toni Morrison uses pathos in “Strangers” when he explains that he missed the old woman despite only seeing her one day and holding a conversation for about fifteen minutes. He was also amused at the fact that she was no longer there but that quickly changed into frustration because he felt betrayed by the old woman because she made it seem as if they would see each other very soon, and he also had plans to invite her over his house but they were soon destroyed. That shows that he was somehow emotionally connected to that stranger by having those mixed feelings.
ReplyDeleteYes both stories use pathos heavily, for instance in Yann Dall’ Agilo’s “Love- you’re doing it wrong”, he uses many pathos points. How we need people to value us and we are inherently worthless, which is also repeated in “Strangers” when the man talks about how we are afraid of being alone and how this is a popular fear. But one of the main differences in these two sources is the use of logos to prove how much we need that emotional connection. Because in “Love- you’re doing it wrong”, he describes how we have changed as a society and no longer have that automatic love that people use to have. Now we have to find it on our own. And this Logos thinking only streathens the pathos points made in both stories.
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