“Are doctors of divinity blind, or are they hypocrites? I suppose some are the one, and some are the other; but I think if they felt the interest in the poor and the lowly, that they ought to feel, they would not be so easily blinded.”
This was a particularly emotional passage for me because of the feeling behind it. Linda is such a caring and nice girl, and she has such intellectual thoughts, that it makes me sad that she is so abused.
The author combines her feelings with her intellectualness and it simply makes the reader feel for the character. She uses her thoughts and her inner questions to make us feel pity and sorrow for her, which is a very advanced tactic for appealing to pathos. Also, she uses a disability in her thought/question, which is a clever way to appeal to emotions. We all feel more emotions for someone with a natural disability, and including it in an emotional passage makes it even more emotional.
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