In response to Kelsey - full post here
Emotionally driven arguments can be incredible powerful; characters are written to novels and attain some degree of likability.
People sometimes change their actions and so on based on how well they connected with certain characters. People who read Ethan Frome, for example, may feel bad for Ethan to the point where they make a commitment to not make the same mistakes as he does. In addition to thinking that his story is sad, Edith Wharton relays it in a way that causes you to believe that he got something that he deserved, he put himself through that.
In this example, I imagine that it would be nearly impossible to divorce emotion from the work. And if you could, hypothetically, I'd imagine that the message would be lost.
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