Text’s author and title/ comment? Christopher Morley’s “On Laziness” Laziness can be good in some ways and bad in others.
Consider the rhetorical situation. What circumstances bring this text forward? What is its audience? Christopher Morley was a journalist, novelist, essayist, and poet. From this, we can conclude that Morley is a learned and accomplished man who has worked for a living. He uses sophisticated language to further solidify his ethos. The circumstances that brought this text forward is the realization that laziness does not have to have a negative connotation, instead it can be looked at as a positive. Morley uses pathos such as when he describes the Germans as not being lazy. If they were lazy, “the world would have …show more content…
Inform the audience? Persuade? Entertain? Call for action?
The author's primary purpose is persuade the audience into believing his thoughts that laziness is something that should be celebrated, not frowned upon. He also wants to prove this by giving laziness a positive appeal by using many rhetorical tools. For example, he uses pathos when he states that, “ The man who is really, thoroughly, and philosophically slothful is the only thoroughly happy man”
Cite a passage that illustrates the author’s message (major point/thought) and discuss it.
“The lazy man does not stand in the way of progress. When he sees progress roaring down upon him he steps nimbly out of the way. The lazy man doesn't (in the vulgar phrase) pass the buck. He lets the buck pass him. We have always secretly envied our lazy friends. Now we are going to join them. We have burned our boats or our bridges or whatever it is that one burns on the eve of a momentous decision”. This passage illustrates the author’s message because, he explains how lazy people do not interfere with the progress of the world, they have already done their part in their world and they can now be lazy. The main idea is how laziness should be perceived as
Consider the rhetorical situation. What circumstances bring this text forward? What is its audience? Christopher Morley was a journalist, novelist, essayist, and poet. From this, we can conclude that Morley is a learned and accomplished man who has worked for a living. He uses sophisticated language to further solidify his ethos. The circumstances that brought this text forward is the realization that laziness does not have to have a negative connotation, instead it can be looked at as a positive. Morley uses pathos such as when he describes the Germans as not being lazy. If they were lazy, “the world would have …show more content…
Inform the audience? Persuade? Entertain? Call for action?
The author's primary purpose is persuade the audience into believing his thoughts that laziness is something that should be celebrated, not frowned upon. He also wants to prove this by giving laziness a positive appeal by using many rhetorical tools. For example, he uses pathos when he states that, “ The man who is really, thoroughly, and philosophically slothful is the only thoroughly happy man”
Cite a passage that illustrates the author’s message (major point/thought) and discuss it.
“The lazy man does not stand in the way of progress. When he sees progress roaring down upon him he steps nimbly out of the way. The lazy man doesn't (in the vulgar phrase) pass the buck. He lets the buck pass him. We have always secretly envied our lazy friends. Now we are going to join them. We have burned our boats or our bridges or whatever it is that one burns on the eve of a momentous decision”. This passage illustrates the author’s message because, he explains how lazy people do not interfere with the progress of the world, they have already done their part in their world and they can now be lazy. The main idea is how laziness should be perceived as