Pathetic fallacy
Pathetic fallacy means when you compare your human emotions to things happening in nature - such as a plague. An example is "a plague on both your houses" by Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet.
The term is not used in mediaeval logic. It is a literary term, invented by the British art critic John Ruskin in his book, Modern Painters (1843–60).[1]
Pathetic Fallacy Media
John Ruskin at Glenfinlas, Scotland (1853–54), by John Everett Millais.
A yellow Crocus angustifolius known as cloth of gold crocus (Curtis's Botanical Magazine, 1803).
References
- ↑ The Penguin dictionary of philosophy 2nd ed, 2005. p. 455.