How Does Mark Twain Use Ethos In The Damned Human Race
In Mark Twain’s essay, he was aiming to show the faults that humans have acquired from their descent from the animal kingdom. Using the analogy of human traits to those of animals. Twain was writing towards a general audience, he believed had lost the instincts of animals and become lost individuals. Mark Twain was successful with his structure in “The Damned Human Race,” however made illogical arguments to prove his point. Here are a few of the successful structures used in his essay.
Pathos plays on the audience’s emotions to appeal to the writer’s persuasion. Mark Twain uses pathos with logical reasoning to support his argument that humans descended from higher animals. Twain tells the story from many years ago, Hunters had organized a buffalo …show more content…
While attempting to prove his case, Twain used hasty and sweeping generalizations. While comparing, and contrasting humans to animals, he hastily showed that man robs his fellow of his country taking possession of it time after time. He generalizes all men as he only points out the dark side that he has seen. He highlights that man can accumulate millions of dollars and yet continue to cheat the helpless out of more only to feed their appetite for more. This is a sweeping generalization that all men are greedy and will use anyone to climb higher in societies status of the riches. Finally, he uses false authority as he claims that the human race harbors insults and injuries and seeks revenge. Once again he points out that humans are all vindictive and fails to see any good intentions. These examples show that some humans have flaws not observed in animals but, failed to see any other side of his argument. Mark Twain was successful with his structure in “The Damned Human Race,” however made illogical arguments to prove his point. Twain grabbed the audience’s attention with a bold thesis to prove, humans descended from animals. While he got his point a crossed by using ethos to appeal to the reader’s emotions, and logos to make logical conclusions, he also used sweeping and hasty generalizations along with false authority in his
Pathos plays on the audience’s emotions to appeal to the writer’s persuasion. Mark Twain uses pathos with logical reasoning to support his argument that humans descended from higher animals. Twain tells the story from many years ago, Hunters had organized a buffalo …show more content…
While attempting to prove his case, Twain used hasty and sweeping generalizations. While comparing, and contrasting humans to animals, he hastily showed that man robs his fellow of his country taking possession of it time after time. He generalizes all men as he only points out the dark side that he has seen. He highlights that man can accumulate millions of dollars and yet continue to cheat the helpless out of more only to feed their appetite for more. This is a sweeping generalization that all men are greedy and will use anyone to climb higher in societies status of the riches. Finally, he uses false authority as he claims that the human race harbors insults and injuries and seeks revenge. Once again he points out that humans are all vindictive and fails to see any good intentions. These examples show that some humans have flaws not observed in animals but, failed to see any other side of his argument. Mark Twain was successful with his structure in “The Damned Human Race,” however made illogical arguments to prove his point. Twain grabbed the audience’s attention with a bold thesis to prove, humans descended from animals. While he got his point a crossed by using ethos to appeal to the reader’s emotions, and logos to make logical conclusions, he also used sweeping and hasty generalizations along with false authority in his