Pathos: The Abolition Of Man

Ethos is described as an appeal to ethics, its goal is to persuade the reader that an opinion is correct by showing the credibility of a character, Its often tied to citing figures of authority. For example, if were debating which car is faster car x or car y, a good argument for car x would be that it was stated by a skilled Nascar driver to be one of the fastest cars he’s ever driven. Now let’s analyze a passage from The Abolition of Man.“Perhaps I am asking impossibilities. Perhaps, in the nature of things, analytical understanding must always be a basilisk which kills what it sees and only sees by killing. But if the scientists themselves cannot arrest this process before it reaches the common Reason and kills that too, then someone else
Pathos is extremely effective when it involves children and the mistreated. A good example would be “Darkies work on de Mississippi, Darkies work while de white folks play” in”O’l Man River ”. Pathos can still be used effectively, even when children or the weak aren’t blatantly being mistreated, as long as genuine emotion is being conjured up. Lewis is able to bring out genuine emotion in readers as demonstrated by this passage“`Man's conquest of Nature' is an expression often used to describe the progress of applied science. `Man has Nature whacked,' said someone to a friend of mine not long ago. In their context, the words had a certain tragic beauty, for the speaker was dying of tuberculosis. `No matter' he said, `I know I'm one of the casualties. Of course, there are casualties on the winning as well as on the losing side. But that doesn't alter the fact that it is winning.'”. What’s stated her is simple, man as a species is advancing in our technological prowess and this is undeniably as a good thing, even people who won’t be alive in the time were significant mastery is achieved agree and are glad that we as a species are progressing. Later in this page and by extension the book C.S Lewis gives the reader examples of how we are dominating nature, all examples are by themselves favor man’s rule over nature but once connected the examples make up a clear image where we see how nature still rules