pathos.htm

Pathos (/ˈpeɪθɒs/, US /ˈpeɪθoʊs/; plural: pathea; Greek: πάθος, for "suffering" or "experience"; adjectival form: 'pathetic' from παθητικός) represents an appeal to the emotions of the audience, and elicits feelings that already reside in them.Pathos is a communication technique used most often in rhetoric (where it is considered one of the three modes of persuasion, alongside ethos and logos), and in literature, film and other narrative art. Emotional appeal can be accomplished in a multitude of ways:

• by a metaphor or storytelling, commonly known as a hook,

• by passion in the delivery of the speech or writing, as determined by the audience.

• by personal anecdote [ Wiki source ]

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Innocents by digby The human species is the problem:

Iconic Examples

https://www.thedodo.com/taiji-japan-dolphin-hunt-1342986325.html

http://worldtraining.net/Minamata.jpg http://worldtraining.net/vulture-child.jpg

http://worldtraining.net/VietNam-child.jpg http://worldtraining.net/polar-bear-iceberg.jpg

A Dog’s Devotion: Representing Loyalty
http://barkpost.com/uk-the-story-of-greyfriars-bobby/

throughout history - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Meninas

http://thebark.com/content/renaissance-art

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6CaUb4fxaA [“warm and fuzzies” : Puppies dressed as cats! ]

[ http://wildlifesos.org/raju/ ] Weepy Alert!

Wildlife SOS, a group established in 1995 to protect endangered wildlife in India, set out to rescue Raju on the night of July 2. Raju is around 50 years old and was likely captured as a baby and bought and sold many times over the course of his life. He was forced to work as a begging elephant in Allahabad. His legs were bound in spiked chains that made walking difficult and left him with chronic wounds. He was also beaten.

Wildlife SOS found out about Raju's story through India's Forestry Commission. When the group attempted to rescue Raju on the night of July 2 in the Uttar Pradesh region of India, his owner and mahout -- an individual who rides elephants -- apparently attempted to dismantle the effort with a standoff, Nikki Sharp, the executive director of Wildlife SOS-USA, told The Huffington Post Monday.

Raju's captors layered tighter chains on him and attempted to confuse him by shouting commands, but their efforts proved futile. A team of 10 veterinarians and experts from Wildlife SOS along with 20 Forestry Commission officers and two policemen managed to rescue the abused elephant, according to the Mirror, a British tabloid.

“Raju was in chains 24 hours a day, an act of intolerable cruelty. The team were astounded to see tears roll down his face during the rescue," Pooja Binepal, a spokesman for Wildlife SOS, said, per the Mirror. "It was incredibly emotional. We knew in our hearts he realized he was being freed. Elephants are majestic and highly intelligent animals. We can only imagine what torture the past half a century has been for him."

Sharp echoed Binepal's statement while speaking with HuffPost. "They [the rescue team] went in to rescue him and they [his captors] had bound him up so tightly that he was in a lot of pain," she said. "The vet and our team came with fruits and just started speaking softly to him and to reassure him that we were there to help, and it was at that time that tears flooded down his face. The founder of Wildlife SOS, who was there are the time of the rescue, said .... that really caught him off guard. They've done a lot of elephant rescues and the fact the tears were just coming down ... he was weeping. It was an emotional moment and everyone was more motivated to get him on the truck and to safety." …. I'm guessing that those who owned this poor old elephant were in dire need of money and had little education, so their cruelty probably seemed ordinary to them. It used to seem ordinary to most everyone, I think.