mindmap root((PATH)) pathos 1、 An element in life or drama that produces sympathetic pity.
2、 An emotion of sympathetic pity.
🌱The pathos of the blind child beggars she had seen in India could still keep her awake at night. 🌳Pathos comes directly from Greek. According to Aristotle, the persuasive power of public speaking relies on three elements: the speaker's authority, the logic of the speech, and the speech's pathos. Aristotle claims that pathos is the appeal to the audience's sense of right and wrong, and that it is this （unlike authority and logic） that moves the audience's emotions. Today we usually speak of pathos as an element in fiction, film, drama, music, or even painting, or the real-life pathos of a situation or personality. Since pathos is closely related to pathetic, it's not surprising that, like pathetic, pathos may occasionally be used a bit sarcastically. apathetic 1、 Showing or feeling little or no emotion.
2、 Having no interest.
🌱His apathetic response to the victory bewildered his friends. 🌳Apathy, or lack of emotion, is central to Albert Camus's famous novel The Stranger, in which the main character's indifference toward almost everything, including his mother's death, results in his imprisonment. We feel little sympathy for him, and may even feel antipathy, or dislike. The American voter is often called apathetic; of all the industrial democracies, only in America does half the adult population fail to vote in major elections. As you can see, apathetic isn't the opposite of pathetic, even though the a- that it begins with means "not" or "without." empathy The feeling of, or the ability to feel, the emotions and sensations of another.
🌱Her maternal empathy was so strong that she often seemed to be living her son's life emotionally. 🌳In the 19th century, Charles Dickens counted on producing an empathetic response in his readers strong enough to make them buy the next newspaper installment of each novel. Today, when reading a novel such as A Tale of Two Cities, only the most hard-hearted reader could fail to feel empathy for Sidney Carton as he approaches the guillotine. One who empathizes suffers along with the one who feels the sensations directly. Empathy is similar to sympathy, but empathy usually suggests stronger, more instinctive feeling. So a person who feels sympathy, or pity, for victims of a war in Asia may feel empathy for a close friend going through the much smaller disaster of a divorce. telepathic Involving apparent communication from one mind to another without speech or signs.
🌱After ten years of marriage, their communication is virtually telepathic, and each always seems to know what the other is thinking. 🌳Since tele- means "distant" （See TELE,） you can see how telepathy means basically "feeling communicated from a distance." The word was coined around 1880, when odd psychic phenomena were being widely discussed by people hoping that researchers might find a scientific basis for what they believed they themselves were experiencing. Today, when people talk about extrasensory perception, or ESP, telepathy is usually what they're talking about. In recent years, the notion of memes—ideas that might somehow physically fly from brain to brain so that people all over the world might have the same idea at about the same time without any obvious communication—has been widely discussed. Even though scientists haven't been able to establish the existence of telepathy, about 30% of Americans continue to believe in it.