B. To change the reader’s mind about an issue
Ethos is an appeal to ethetics and it means of convincing someone of the character credibility of the persauder
In "Hamlet", Act I, Scene II, Claudius and Gertrude as Hamlet to cheer up, and tell him that every living thing has to die, so it is useless to keep mourning for his father. Hamlet answers that he is suffering more than they can see, nothing can express the way he feels. Then Claudius says that everybody loses his father because it is a law of nature and tells Hamlet to stop mourning because it is a crime against God, against the dead and against nature. Claudius then tells Hamlet to start thinking of him as his new father and treat him in this way. And he also asks Hamlet not to leave Denmark.
