In one of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays, King Lear runs into a storm to express rage against his daughters. When Vancouver theatre artist Anita Rochon learned about this scene back in high ...

The Chop is one of those brilliant little companies based out of British Columbia that was thinking deeply about future forms of theatre long before the pandemic hit. Pathetic Fallacy, its co-artistic ...

When you say ‘a brook babbled’, or ‘the leaves danced’, it’s an artistic device called a ‘pathetic fallacy’ defined as “the attribution of human characteristics to inanimate objects or nature”. And ...

We sometimes come across, in a poem or a novel, descriptions of nature that are not, strictly speaking, accurate. We may have read of flowers ‘dancing happily’ in the breeze or ‘angry waves’ smashing ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Pathetic fallacy is often used to describe the environment. The weather and season can be described with human emotions to reflect the mood of a character or create a tone. 'The raindrops wept around ...

What do you call an idea that grows in popularity the more it is proven wrong? Let’s steal John Ruskin’s literary term, “the pathetic fallacy,” because it is more descriptive than his use of it. The ...

This new piece from award-winning Canadian company the Chop takes audience participation to new heights. For ecological reasons, Anita is reducing her carbon footprint by not attending the Edinburgh ...

LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES—Lionel Wiggam— Viking ($1.75). Of all the fallacies which man hugs to his bosom, the one characterized by Ruskin as “the pathetic fallacy” is the most common to romantic poets.