events are replicated in this book‚ which makes the reader to be sympathetic. In the novel Frankenstein‚ many themes are discussed and a major one is sympathy. Sympathy is defined as “feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else’s misfortune.” –TheFreeDictionary. When sympathy is discussed in Frankenstein‚ we are mostly talking about having sympathy towards the monster or Victor Frankenstein. Different arguments and points support both sides‚ but it entirely depends on the readers’ perspective; a
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the army of who he was fighting against that was killed and injured‚ more than half of Alexander’s army died at the journey through the desert of Gedrosia. No one considers a murderer "great". Alexander sympathizes for those people that he killed? It does not mention anywhere that Alexander did anything in memory those people and not even his own people that were killed. Many people say it was because of him uniting all those cities that initiated development in Europe. It is true that after the unification
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To what extent do you think Oedipus deserved what happened to him‚ and does he deserve our sympathy? It is debatable as to whether Oedipus deserved what happened to him at the end of the play‚ some would argue that Oedipus did deserve his fate by the end; however‚ in my opinion Oedipus did not deserve what happened to him because he was doing his job as king and trying to save his people from the plague. Firstly‚ Oedipus deserved what happened to him at the end of the play because‚ while it
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lived through slavery‚ racism and segregation. So this poem is considered to be an extended metaphor where through out the entire poem Dunbar is comparing himself and all African Americans at that time with a caged bird that does not have the freedom to enjoy the nature and does not have the freedom to fly like all other birds meaning white people at that time. The poet starts the poem with a sentence that is very direct and describes his feelings from the beginning which is "I know what the caged
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Son" by Richard Wright‚ the main character‚ Bigger Thomas‚ has his traits shaped and formed by the culture of oppression he lives in. The oppression towards people of his race‚ set in the 1930’s‚ causes Bigger to develop certain attitudes and behaviors towards white people. Bigger sees the world as a place he does now own; his surroundings tell him that white people "get a chance to do everything" (Wright 16) while he has a black man does not. Bigger sees white men and women owning businesses‚
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Victory of Bigger Thomas in Richard Wright’s Native Son The protagonist of Richard Wright’s novel Native Son represents a big focal point for racism in America. This racism that the protagonist‚ Bigger Thomas‚ feels is specifically aimed at African-Americans. The African-Americans that are truly affected by this racism are young men. Bigger begins to feel the pressures of the Jim Crow laws and racism in 1940s Chicago‚ which causes him to commit a senseless crime. The oppression that Bigger feels
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structure and substance‚ its history‚ and the processes that act on it. Geology is pivotal to the field of Earth science and not many recognize that. More attention needs to be placed on Geology and to give it the attention it deserves the discipline deserves more money. Geology deserves government funding because it is relevant to everyday life and civilization‚ the opportunities in Geology are strong and on the rise‚ and because it can help us learn more about Earth. Geology needs government funding
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This essay is about whether or not Mary I deserves the title of ‘Bloody Mary’. I will be writing points for and against the name Bloody Mary and I will reach a judgement on how far I personally agree to whether or not she deserves the title Bloody Mary. When Mary came to the throne she changed a lot of things purely to do with religion. Her popularity quickly turned sour because of her religious changes and her marriage. She had been brought up as a strict Roman Catholic‚ therefore‚ she
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Do we have any sympathy for Macbeth at the end of the play? Our first impressions of Macbeth are that he is a hero‚ he is brave and fearless‚ and although we get this impression we also get the feeling that he is ruthless. We get this impression from the way he is referred to when his name is first mentioned. Macbeth has just been in battle against "The merciless Macdonwald" and a Captain is talking about how Macbeth and his fellow Captain‚ Banquo‚ performed in battle. While Macbeth is in battle
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Sympathy is a universal emotion that we‚ as human all tend to felt toward people have an unfortunate‚ a harsher‚ more oppressed life than us. In Ernest Hemmingway’s ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ 1952 novella‚ an old Cuban fisherman named Santiago‚ our protagonist has strongly elicited our sympathy toward him due to the harsh‚ lonely‚ poor and full-of-suffering life that he had have to experience‚ especially when he loosed the greatest catch of his life: the marlin. Despite that there are counter arguments
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