ENG150Y1 Lecture Notes - Pathos, Simile, Fake History
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162-163 you sir now quit at last 68-69 tough sons have darted us children"s children . Not just words to interpret, but events. Language: very heavy influence for interpretation: pathos. 159, beginning of book six: aeneas went inland to the height feared by men : comparing to the odyssey, some adjectives would never appear in it. Words (such as fear) are indications of emotions and affective ideas. Symbols are more specific and obvious, not as much implied. How the narrator prevents the events (empathy) Empathy, entering into the emotional state of another. The narrator takes it as not only taking these emotions but entering their position. The long first person speeches create this to let the reader enter the characters emotions: the speech of dido, book 4, half of it is of dido"s emotions for aeneas. 175-176 among these souls shaken by her ill fate and pity her : aeneas, the shifting perspective; the gaze switches from him to dido.
