All 3 Uses of
pathos
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated.
p. 226.6 *pathos = a quality that arouses pity or sorrow
- At times this deep strain of pathos was all that could be heard, and scarcely heard sighing amid a desolate silence.
p. 227.0pathos = quality that arouses pity or sorrow
- But, throughout it all, and through the whole discourse, there had been a certain deep, sad undertone of pathos, which could not be interpreted otherwise than as the natural regret of one soon to pass away.
p. 232.3pathos = sorrow