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Pathetic Fallacy

Pathetic Fallacy. Objective:. To understand how and why writers use Pathetic Fallacy. Read this extract from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. What is the weather like? How is the narrator feeling?

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Pathetic Fallacy

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  1. Pathetic Fallacy

  2. Objective: • To understand how and why writers use Pathetic Fallacy

  3. Read this extract from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. • What is the weather like? • How is the narrator feeling? “Morning, dismal and wet, at length dawned…The porter opened the gates and I issued into the streets, pacing them with quick steps, drenched by the rain which poured from a black and comfortless sky.”

  4. What is Pathetic Fallacy? • The weather reflects a character’s emotions. • The writer makes a connection between human emotion and the appearance of the landscape or the behaviour of the weather. • It is as if the environment shares human emotions or is somehow aware of people. E.g. Lovers meet in sunshine; a teenager is thrown out of home in a rain storm.

  5. Development • If you had to describe your day so far, what genre would it be? (e.g. horror, comedy, romance, etc.) • What type of weather would your day be?

  6. Write the events of your day so far as the opening scene of a short story. • Use creative language and pathetic fallacy • No more than 50 words • E.g. ‘It was a dark and windy morning and the sun had not yet risen…’ • E.g. ‘The sun rose gloriously and the breeze was gentle…’

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