Grendel as a sympathetic character in Grendel Can you imagine being born and automatically being considered evil? This is what happens to Grendel. Throughout the book everyone’s feelings towards Grendel is that of a bad person or creature. In Grendel my sympathy for Grendel fluctuates. Grendel starts out as a sympathetic character because he is an innocent curious child with a mother who doesn’t talk‚ and lives in a cave. As the story moves on Grendel is misunderstood then starts to make decisions
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Present Caliban As A Sympathetic Character To You? In the play "The Tempest"‚ Shakespeare introduces us to several different characters‚ each identified individually with their contrasting attitudes‚ nature and prior circumstances that have brought them to a deserted isle in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea. Shakespeare creates characters that exemplify the relationship between human nature and contemporary civilization and the distinction between men and monsters. The character of Caliban is known
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Explore The Ways In Which Priestley Creates Sympathy For The Character Of Sheila Birling In ‘An Inspector Calls’ In J.B Priestley’s play ‘An Inspector Calls’‚ which is written after the First World War and like much of his work contains controversial‚ politically charged messages. In this play J.B Priestley present Sheila Birling’s change during the play‚ Priestley purposefully chose to present Sheila in this way to show the audience that her change should influence them to change their views
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How does Priestly present Shelia Birling in Act One? In act one Priestly presents Shelia Birling using a variety of techniques. Firstly‚ during the beginning of the act‚ Priestly uses stage directions to present Sheila as a half-joking character with the stage direction ‘[half serious‚ half playful]’ to show that although the conversation may be sincere she beings a lightness to the atmosphere. In addition‚ another stage direction ‘[mocking aggressions]’ also indicates this half-joking‚ half-genuine
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Give advice to the actor playing Mr Birling on how he should present the character to an audience? In this essay I am going to discuss Mr. Birling character in depth and advise the actor who plays him on how he should be presented. Mr Birling is a ‘heavy looking‚ rather portentous man in his middle fifties’ who is head of the family. Since he is next socially superior wife after his wife the actor should have a sense of power and authority in the room and be sat at the head of the table to emphasize
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Priestley presents the characters of the Inspector and Mr Birling as complete opposites‚ with totally different views and attitudes towards society. The Inspector is a socialist who believes “we are members of one body.” Conversely‚ Mr Birling has very capitalist views and thinks “a man has to mind his own business and look after himself.” Mr Birling is extremely arrogant. He makes very long speeches at dinner‚ discussing matters that the audience would know were incorrect. Priestley uses dramatic
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King Lear -- Sympathetic Characters A sympathetic character‚ is a character that the writer expects the reader (in this case watcher) to identify with and care about. In Shakespeare’s play King Lear‚ the characters Gloucester and King Lear both start out not being liked by the reader because they come off as mean and cold. By the end of the play‚ the reader does sympathize for both of these characters because of how they have been betrayed by their children. Both King Lear and Gloucester
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antagonist Iago. When reading further‚ the heroic Othello appears. He seems to be a sympathetic and strong willed man incapable of being manipulated; however‚ as the story progresses‚ Iago tricks him into believing that his lieutenant and his wife are having an affair. Othello’s entire nature is flipped within minutes when Iago convinces him of Desdemona’s infidelity. Othello’s character should be viewed as sympathetic even though he was easily duped by Iago and so violently cruel to Desdemona. Foremost
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In what ways are the characters of Sheila and Eric Birling important in this play? Throughout the play Priestly plays on the idea of community and how our own actions can have a huge effect on others. This was a revolution in the time of when “an inspector calls” was set (1912) and was a point which was continuously being argued by socialists‚ or as Arthur Birling calls them “cranks”. Sheila and Eric represent the socialists as they learnt from the inspector that we are all in a community and have
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poor decisions and do things that we later regret in life. When we make bad decisions‚ people around us tend to forget to listen to our side of the story. Achilles‚ a warrior from The Iliad‚ can relate to this. Achilles emerges as a sympathetic character in The Iliad because people took from him‚ and because he showed mercy to people who did not fully deserve it. As the king of the Myrmidons‚ people would view Achilles as one who has almost everything he wants - which would be false
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