The Sanctuary Of Mercy Summary

Mona Caird’s essay, “The Sanctuary of Mercy”, examines the relationship of human beings to animal races pointing out that animals constantly put forward their hand of friendship, but humans slaughter them for their need. The author is surprised that little or no attempt has been made to civilize the relationship between us. The author consistently defies the animal slaughtering for research and study purposes. Considering the usage of vocabulary words and the data, the author wants to draw the attention of physiologists and big clinical companies who use animals as their test subjects. The author demonstrates the reality of human deeds, their greed, their vision towards other creatures and their misuse of nature using a strong vocabulary, emotional appeals and various examples to support her claim. Mona represents the cruelty of humans towards nature. Mona frequently uses sympathetic words like poor, helpless, unable and weak to describe animals and their …show more content…
Adding these examples in the text, the theme becomes more clear, it attracts the reader’s attention and supports her argument. Making arguments without proper examples would lead the entire text to be meaningless. Throughout the essay, the author has included various facts which helped the author to give the author’s argument a better significance. In every aspect of the essay, the author has included word like cruelty and injustice to trigger hate against animal slaughter and to enhance that feeling, the author has added facts and examples to make the readers believe the authors argument. “Giving license to physiologists to take a living and trembling creature, dissect its nerves and organs, pierce with red hot wire, inoculate horrible diseases into the blood and so on” are some examples which author have included. Fact like these evoke emotions of the readers and makes them eager to go