Cindy Weinstein claims in Family‚ Kinship‚ and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature‚ with respect to Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women‚ that this piece of sentimental literature has a “profound awareness of the relative fragility of the biological family and a commitment to strengthening and redefining it according to the logic of love”(Weinstein 4). Through Weinstein’s claim‚ she states that biological‚ familial ties are not what define a family; it is‚ however‚ through the love that
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In the University of Florida production of Puffs‚ Marissa Toogood had a brilliant performance Toogood effectively played her role as a shy‚ frightened Puff. I found it funny when she danced with herself at the dance. She had her arms wrapped around her torso so that her hands appeared to be another person’s hands who was dancing with her. While this could might been interpreted as someone actually being there in the same way that the mop represented Ron‚ I saw this as Toogood’s character thinking
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Empathy is the ability to understand another person’s circumstances point of view‚ thoughts and feelings. Empathy involves communication‚ trying to understand what another person is experiencing without leads to communication without meanings. It becomes a mechanism of internal thought process rather than understanding of another feeling. As a nurse‚ practicing health care it’s very important to understand the importance of sympathy and it is the best feeling when you apply it as a scope of practice
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Paper for 2005 Methods issue #4 The Humanistic Psychologist ‘Reflexive embodied empathy’: a phenomenology of participant-researcher intersubjectivity By: Linda Finlay Acknowledgements: My grateful thanks go to Scott Churchill for reminding me to return to Husserl’s work on intersubjectivity to better anchor my concept of ‘reflexive embodied empathy’. I am also indebted to Maree Burns who first drew my attention to the idea of embodied reflexivity. Address for correspondence:
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To a certain extent‚ I partially sympathies with Blanche DuBois. This disintegrated character goes through many painful experiences‚ some being the suicide of her young husband Alan Grey‚ her loneliness throughout the play‚ and when her only family member betrays her for desire. On the other hand‚ Blanche loses my sympathy at some events due to the numerous lies she has told throughout the play to many of the characters and the failed attempts of trying to break up Stanley and Stella. It could be
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Sympathy for a Killer Most people believe that everyone gets what they deserve. That all bad actions deserve consequences. To many‚ that is what the so-called “justice” system is for. Criminals are supposed to be punished by the law‚ but is it always fair to the criminals? What if one of those criminals had an awful life growing up and just was unable to stay out of trouble? It is just this question that Truman Capote addresses in his book‚ In Cold Blood. Throughout the book‚ Capote creates
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hardships allow the audience to mourn with and connect to Hamlet’s complex character. Shakespeare evokes sympathy from the reader through the hastened marriage of Hamlet’s mother‚ the murderess actions of his wretched uncle‚ and Hamlet’s apparent madness. These occurrences develop not only sympathy from the audience‚ but the main theme of revenge as Hamlet seeks to avenge his father’s wrongful death. Sympathy is created for Hamlet through his father’s death and his mother and uncles hastened marriage.The
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third chapter of To Kill a Mockingbird Atticus proclaims that “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it”. At the core of this statement is the idea empathy and that people are greater than who they appear to be on the surface. Applying this idea to characters in the book can teach us invaluable lessons. Empathising with Mayella Ewell’s situation can help us to comprehend why people act in certain manners
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1b) The three examples of sympathy and no sympathy in Beowulf‚ the first of Beowulf telling his very boastful story‚ one of Grendel origins and the third of feeling sympathy for Grendel because of his origins. The first is when the reader is supposed to not feel sympathy for Beowulf when he boasts about his adventure at sea "...I was the strongest swimmer of all. / …. Each of us swam holding a sword‚ / a naked‚ hard- proofed blade for protection/ against the whale- beast. /.... pinned fast/ and swathed
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Throughout the novel‚ To Kill A Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee‚ the characteristic of empathy is ever present. This unique quality is developed through Jem and Scout in their dealings with the characters of Walter Cunningham and Mrs. Dubose. One characteristic shown of Jem and Scout is their ability to empathize or “….climb into their skin and walk around in it.” (pg 31). During the novel Jem develops a high level of emotional intelligence that allows him to understand the situation of others‚ as
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