Pathetic Fallacy Figurative Language Personification PERSONIFICATION When inanimate objects or ideas are given qualities as if they were alive It could also be when animals are given human qualities ID: 361528
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The Great Gatsby
: Pathetic FallacySlide2
Figurative Language: Personification
PERSONIFICATION
: When inanimate objects or ideas are given qualities as if they were alive. It could also be when animals are given human qualities.
The pencil flew out of my hand.
In this example, the writer is using figurative language to show that it felt like the pencil sprung from her hand. The pencil is not actually flying.
The wind howled through the trees.
The car died of exhaustion.Slide3
OnE
step further…
What emotions are traditionally associated with the following types of weather?
Rain
Thunderstorm
Sunny
Heat Wave
Mist/FogSlide4
Figurative Language:
Pathetic Fallacy
Term coined by critic John Ruskin in 1856.
He created the term in order to attack the sentimental over-use of emotion found in the poetry of the late 18th Century
Uses Charles Kingsley’s poem,
The Sands of Dee
to demonstrate
"They rowed her in across the rolling foam -
The cruel, crawling foam“
Ruskin then points out “The foam is not cruel, neither does it crawl. The state of mind which attributes to it these characters of a living creature is one in which the reason is unhinged by grief.”
Yet Ruskin did not disapprove of Kingsley’s use of the pathetic fallacy:
“Now so long as we see that the feeling is true, we pardon, or are even pleased by, the confessed
fallacy of sight
which it induces: we are pleased, for instance, with those lines of Kingsley's, above quoted, not because they fallaciously describe foam, but because they faithfully describe sorrow.” (Ruskin, John (1856). "Of the Pathetic Fallacy". Modern Painters,. volume iii. pt. 4.) Slide5
Figurative Language:
Pathetic Fallacy
When the author ascribes the human feelings of one or more of his/her characters to non-human objects or nature or phenomena.
Examples
:
"
The fruitful field / Laughs with abundance"—William Cowper
"
Nature
must be gladsome when I was so happy"—Jane Eyre, by Charlotte
Brontë
Example
: Friends
Joey and Chandler get in a fight and Chandler moves out. However, the two grow lonely and miss each other having been roommates for many years
.
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Pathetic Fallacy:
Luhrmann’s
Romeo
+ Juliet
Heat Wave
Emotion: anger, animosity, quick tempers, confusion
Why: represents the feud between the two houses; foreshadows the civil brawl that is about to ensue
Thunderstorm
Emotion: threatening, anticipation, cool “calm before the storm”
Why: represents the feud between the two houses; foreshadows the civil brawl that is about to ensue
Rain
Emotion: sadness, grief, fear, frustration, catharsis/clarity
Why: Romeo grieves
Mercutio’s
death, Romeo understands the implications that
Tybalt’s
death has on Romeo and Juliet’s relationshipSlide7
as you read:
Watch out for descriptions of weather and consider these descriptions in light of what you just learned about
pathetic fallacy.