Pathetic fallacy

The presentation of nature or weather as reflecting human feelings.

The presentation of weather or surroundings as reflecting human feelings, such as the bright Christmas morning accompanying Scrooge’s joy.

Read as pathetic fallacy, the clearer weather reflects his clearer understanding and renewed happiness. It remains cold, but the cold now makes the blood “dance”: his experience of the world has changed.

The attribution of human feelings to nature, often through weather that reflects a character’s mood.

The attribution of human emotions to nature or weather, often reflecting the mood of a scene or character.

The use of weather or the natural environment to reflect human feelings, such as fog and darkness mirroring fear and uncertainty.

The presentation of weather or the natural environment in ways that reflect human emotions or a scene’s mood.

The attribution of human feelings to nature or weather, often making a setting reflect a character’s emotional state.

The presentation of weather or nature as reflecting human emotions.

The presentation of weather or the natural world as reflecting human emotions.

The presentation of weather or the natural environment in ways that reflect human feelings.

The presentation of weather or surroundings in ways that reflect human emotions.

The attribution of human feelings to weather or the natural environment, often reflecting a character's mood.

The presentation of nature or weather with human feelings, often reflecting the mood of a character or scene.

The presentation of nature or weather as reflecting human emotions, such as the bleak weather accompanying Jane’s isolation.

The presentation of weather or the natural world as reflecting a character’s emotions or situation.

The attribution of human emotions to nature, often connecting a setting with a character’s feelings.

The presentation of nature or weather as reflecting human emotions.

The attribution of human feelings to nature, often allowing a setting to reflect a speaker’s emotional state.

Presenting weather or the natural environment in ways that reflect human feelings.

Presenting nature or weather as reflecting human feelings.

The natural world seems to echo the violent overthrow of the king. This reflects the play’s association between regicide and a disturbed moral order; the presentation of troubled heavens also invites analysis as pathetic fallacy.

The attribution of human emotions to the natural world, often making weather or landscape reflect a character's feelings.

The attribution of human feelings to nature or weather, often making the surroundings reflect the mood of a scene.

The attribution of human feelings to nature or the environment, often making the surroundings reflect a scene's emotional atmosphere.

The use of weather or nature to reflect human feelings or the emotional atmosphere.

The use of weather or landscape to reflect human feelings, such as the storm that unsettles the apparent happiness of the proposal.

The storm can be read as pathetic fallacy because its violence reflects his fear; it also has a practical narrative role, blinding, deafening and disorientating him.

The use of weather or other aspects of nature to reflect human feelings, as the threatening fog reflects Utterson’s fear and uncertainty.

The use of weather or nature to reflect human feelings.

The presentation of weather or nature as reflecting human feelings or a scene’s emotional atmosphere.

The attribution of human feelings to weather or nature, often to reflect a character’s mood or create an emotional atmosphere.

The attribution of human feelings to nature or weather, often making the surroundings reflect a character's emotions.

‘Misanthropic’ means hostile towards humankind: the natural surroundings are given an attitude resembling Scrooge's. This is pathetic fallacy.

The presentation of weather or other aspects of nature as reflecting human feelings or circumstances.

The presentation of nature or weather as reflecting human feelings, such as a violent storm accompanying a character’s terror.

The presentation of weather or the natural environment as reflecting human emotions.

The presentation of nature, particularly weather, as reflecting or expressing human feelings.

The presentation of weather or surroundings as reflecting human feelings or the emotional atmosphere of a scene.

The presentation of weather or the natural world as reflecting human feelings.

The use of weather or the natural environment to reflect human feelings. The storm in Chapter 39 mirrors Pip’s anxiety and the violent disruption of his hopes.

The attribution of human feelings to the natural world, often linking weather or landscape to a character’s emotional state.

The attribution of human emotions to the natural world, often making weather reflect a character’s mood.

The presentation of weather or nature as reflecting human feelings or qualities.

The attribution of human feelings or moods to nature, often making weather reflect a character’s emotions.

The attribution of human feelings to nature, often making weather or landscape reflect a character’s emotional state.

The presentation of nature or weather in ways that reflect human emotions or the emotional atmosphere of a scene.

The use of a natural setting or weather to reflect human emotions.

The use of landscape or weather to reflect human emotions.

Describing weather or the natural world in a way that reflects human feelings.

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AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702

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Edexcel GCSE English Literature · 1ET0

OCR GCSE English Literature · J352

Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720