As in whipped cream.
As in falling in love (an expression commonly used by teenagers today).
As in the act of being whipped.
And now, thanks to The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by former slave Frederick Douglass, yet another definition for whipped can be added to our list of meanings. But what does the word whipping mean when Douglass uses it? He mentions it when explaining the happenings surrounding the murder of the slave Demby, his blood in the hands of cold Mr. Gore. He says his actions go "unwhipped by justice" (Douglass, Chapter 4, para. 5) along with being "uncensured by the community".I don't know how to explain what the use of the verb whipped means in this phrase and context. I relate it to the adjective untouched. because when plugging in untouched in place of unwhipped, the meaning seems to stay the same.
On another note, the stories make this narrative's appeal to the different branches of rhetoric as clear as day.
It's logos because it's fact. It happened.
It's pathos because it takes to our hearts and conscious.
It's literally a pathological whipping of the brain. I don't cringe due to the descriptions, but rather because of the stories and examples he narrates. The descriptions aren't all that gory, the actions are. What causes me to gag with disgust, makes my palms sweat and my heart hurt, is the thought of Mrs. Hamilton and "pecked"; of Mr. Gore and Demby; of the freezing children. All these examples are described in a clinical, matter-of-fact way. Something that exuberates logos, and the result of it is purely pathos.
Oh and by the way, does wondering if white's have hearts at all, fall under pathos?
On another note, the stories make this narrative's appeal to the different branches of rhetoric as clear as day.
It's logos because it's fact. It happened.
It's pathos because it takes to our hearts and conscious.
It's literally a pathological whipping of the brain. I don't cringe due to the descriptions, but rather because of the stories and examples he narrates. The descriptions aren't all that gory, the actions are. What causes me to gag with disgust, makes my palms sweat and my heart hurt, is the thought of Mrs. Hamilton and "pecked"; of Mr. Gore and Demby; of the freezing children. All these examples are described in a clinical, matter-of-fact way. Something that exuberates logos, and the result of it is purely pathos.
Oh and by the way, does wondering if white's have hearts at all, fall under pathos?
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