Logos appeal to reason, pathos appeal to emotions, and ethos appeal to the writer’s character. With these components you should balance them or make your paper appeal to all three in the same amount of content. With logos it is about how well you argue your point. You want the audience to understand why you feel the way you feel by using logical points, statistics and facts. With pathos it is about emotions, beliefs and values.
Themes Though it is a remarkably short piece of fiction, “The Open Window” explores a number of important themes. Mr. Nuttel comes to the country in an attempt to cure his nervous condition. He pays a visit to the home of Mrs. Sappleton in order to introduce himself, and before he gets to meet the matron of tha house, he is intercepted by her niece, who regales him with an artful piece of fiction that, in the end, only makes his nervous condition worse. Appearances and Reality It is no surprise that Mrs. Sappleton’s niece tells a story that is easy to believe. She begins with an object in plain view, an open window, and proceeds from there.
Unfortunately the only way he knows how to help her it by treating her as a medical patient or as an object and not as a person who needed love, not just care. By doing this he aids to her mental decent, the last thing he meant to do. The evidence as to how much he truly loved his wife is shown at the end when he finally breaks in on his wife, and is so shocked and overcome by sadness that he faints. Unfortunately this point in the story also illustrates how far gone the narrator is, moving past her husband without recognizing him. In fact she even complains about “that man” and having to “creep over him” as she makes her
Recently, I read the story Cathedral by Raymond Carver and I was very fascinated by the settings of the story. It is an interesting story of a woman who invites her blind friend to her home after his wife has just died. However, their relationship is not simply a friendship, it is more complicated than it seems at a first glance and this is what I am going to demonstrate in this essay. This essay will discuss the relationship between the woman and the blind man and how the woman does not seem to care about her husband, she instead gives all her attention to the blind man. The narrator tells the story in a manner that forces the reader to reflect in a more thorough way to clearly understand what he really means or figure out the codes.
With an unequal marriage and a woman which let her self-expression ruin her, was the short story "The Yellowwallpaper," a great story to talk about the theme of gender. The theme of gender also has to do with how far the story dates back which is in the 1800's, this focusing on how much pain this woman is in with no place to run. Gilman narrates the story to let the reader have a better look at what this woman is feeling and how she reacts to her surroundings. She actually turns to her husband whom which is a doctor and her companion and he dismisses the notion of her mental illness. He sort of traps her in a controlled space by taking her to a secluded house with no human contact besides her sister, Jennie, and himself who both look at her illness in the same way.
Throughout her memoir, Jamison kept an idea of unity—between herself and friends, colleagues, and family—and persistence. Had her brother gone and acted like her sister (writing off her prescription to lithium as nothing more than being weak) and not checked in on her, the world only knows what other type of things she might have done while in a manic or depressive fit. She could have been bankrupt and broke had he not stepped in and helped with the aftermath of her manic phases, as well as their mother. “She cooked meal after meal for me during my long bouts of depression, helped me with my laundry, and helped pay my medical bills…Without her I never could have survived.” (p.118-9) From her first husband and their lasting friendship and her second, to her psychiatrist and other in-the-know colleagues, Kay has always had people there to keep an eye
On the oppose side of the marital spectrum, Zeena regularly professes her hypochondria to her husband. However, in response to the sledding accident, she “seemed to be raised right up just when the call came to her” (Wharton 131). This ironic “miracle” proves Zeena’s addiction to martyrdom, emotionally dependent on first her illnesses, then to her vocational role. Although professedly unhappy, she relies on her marriage for a sense of purpose. In an examination of the constancies, it seems as though both wife and husband, woman and man, are reliant upon both one another and their marriage to function
For the author of A Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, surrounds this very mysterious character with the issue of a wallpaper that is consuming the characters life. Gilman describes the characters dementia without directness to an "insanity". Jane, the main character knows that she has a mental issue and uses this journal to describe how she slowly loses her sanity. The curtness of how she lost her way made the story a little creepier, and more mysterious. In a novel the author could describe her past life for chapters and chapters, but knowing her life for such a short period of time made the story
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman has three themes: becoming free, madness, and the dangers of the “rest cure.” The story is written as the secret diary of a woman who is diagnosed with temporary nervous depression by her husband and doctor and is prescribed the “rest cure.” Though the narrator wants to write, she is prohibited from any activity due to her treatment. Thus, allowing her to create a figure in the yellow wallpaper while in the confinement of her room. Gilman writes in "The Yellow Wallpaper" of the narrator who is apparently trying to free herself from her sickness and the room, and she is trying to free the woman in the wallpaper. Throughout the story, the narrator, also known as the protagonist of the story, is trying to free herself from her illness. Readers can see this when Gilman writes, "I think sometimes that if I were only well enough to write a little it would relieve the press
After being caught and having been forced to wear a scarlet “A” representing her act of adultery, Hester tries to continue on with life along with her daughter, while being shunned by the townspeople of Boston, Massachusetts. During this time, Pearl had a big impact on Hester. Pearl was used as a physical representation and reminder of Hester’s sin, while also being a metaphorical mirror to the sins, but ultimately being the source of Hester’s strength. One of the main reasons for Pearl’s use in the novel was for Hester and the readers to remember Hester’s sin when looking at Pearl. In the story, the narrator expressed during the time that Hester and Pearl were walking to Governor Bellingham, that the red and gold colored clothing that Pearl was wearing, which Hester had made, was undoubtedly a significant reminder of Hester’s scarlet letter.