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Show GENERAL INTERPRETATION into the 'speech, spiritual. which will 133 Do not think of the story except a figure of explain the real meaning, hidden behind. SUGGESTED SELECTIONS--ALLEGORY (Purpose: Spiritual Exultation) Elementary: The Young King Instans PAGE Oscar Wilde Robert Browning Rudyard Kipling Tyrannus ' The Palace " 362 107 165 Advanced: The Ballad of Judas Iscariot Robert Buchanan 8 Lafcadio Hearn 328 The Soul of the Great Bell Pathos. This term covers a multitude of feelings in the mind of the average student. stood to be pathetic. Anything which might bring tears is under To be clear in our understanding of this ter minology .will go far to make our purpose definite. Death is not, Blood and rage are not as is generally supposed, always pathetic. necessarily pathetic. Shakespeare. leaves the greatest villain of literature, Iago, to live. He makes Kent, the dearest friend of King Lear say, when those around would revive the aged dying king, "Vex not his ghost; 0, let him pass! he hates' him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer." Death may be a great noble end, a happy release, a glorious con summation. however, must awaken pity. It is compassion stirred by an undeserved condition, be it in death or life. Justice should not awaken sympathy. Pity, compassion, sympathy are the emotional results of a true pathos. The Greeks did not consider desert a We moderns, on the other hand, cause for reward or punishment. like to have good, rewarded; evil, punished; but there is no pathos Pathos in justice. However great a measurement inability of Cordelia vanity, demanding the sin we may consider the to truckle to the childishness of her father's of her love for him, which she had measured in deed |
