Disability And Matthew Soyster's Living Under Circe's Spell

In Nancy Mair 's "Disability" and Matthew Soyster 's " Living under Circe 's Spell" the authors give the reader a firsthand opinion and experience on what it is like being disabled. In Mair 's opinion, disabled people should be viewed as normal people. In contrast, Soyster does not view his disability as normal,but instead as something that is ruining his life and independence. Through their essays they give their personal opinions on their lives as cripples, but their aims in discussing the topic differs. Mair 's finds her disability to make her who she is and has grown to accept it. She uses figurative language such as description, diction, and allusions to disclose her forbearance of MS. In contrast, Soyster believes that his disability is dwindles down his worth and purpose. Mair and Soyester both use language, tone, and rhetorical strategies to convey these message, but their intended audience diverges. In"Disability", Mairs describes the media 's depiction of disability versus her firsthand experiences as a woman with multiple sclerosis. She believes that disabled people should be treated the same as able bodied people; since disabled people perform the same everyday task as others, besides modify some of

This is what he describes as Circe 's Spell. His tone through out the story is very bitter. He worries about what people think about him and primarily speaks on how MS has negatively impacts his life. He goes on to say "People see me now, or over me. They don 't see me at all. Or they fix me with that plangent, aching stare: sympathy.”, " (Soyster 1). Through this text, Soyster reveals MS has made him both invisible and a symbol for pity. He does not appreciate being disabled as in his opinion it has negatively impacted his life. He does however feel as though should still be treated the way he was before his diagnosis. Soyster appeals to his audience through the use pathos since