had ran away‚ he would feel fully responsible for Williams death. This guilt was then magnified once Justine was convicted of the murder‚ when Victor knew that it was the monster who had really done it. As the situation gets worse for Victor we sympathise with him as he must also feel responsible for Justine’s death and her being executed for something she didnt do. He could not admit that she didnt do it unless he admits he created a monster who killed his own brother‚ and he felt that no one would
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through the horrific appearance‚ malicious background and low social status in which he is allocated. However‚ although we are encouraged by language‚ and the other characters to view Caliban as terrible‚ we do in fact reserve or judgment as we can sympathise with him; like the colonized people‚ Caliban is treated like a slave and although some of his actions may be terrible‚ we can deduce some reason behind them. Even before we meet Caliban on the set‚ we are given background information on him which
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Throughout Romeo and Juliet loss is abound‚ making the text relatable for modern and contemporary audiences. Loss is an ineluctable part of human life allowing audiences from any era to be able to sympathise with the characters and connect with them. Many people share the view that lord Capulet cared little for his daughter‚ not unusual In Elizabethan times‚ but I feel there is much evidence to the contrary‚ lord Capulet‚ loved his "only child"‚ Juliet. PROLOGUE Juliet’s supposed death evoked intense
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Mercy‚ or‚ we may rather say‚ the world’s heavy hand had so ordained her‚ when neither the world nor she looked forward to this result. The letter was the symbol of her calling. Such helpfulness was found in her—so much power to do‚ and power to sympathise—that many people refused to interpret the scarlet A by its original signification. They said that it meant Able‚ so strong was Hester Prynne‚ with a woman’s strength.” (149) By standing for herself and showing the townspeople that she was actually
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Marie Antoinette‚ the 2006 film‚ is a great example of popular history and its techniques to provoke interest. Popular history is the genre of history with its main motive to entertain rather than inform. The director‚ Sofia Coppola has lost the historical integrity of the film‚ replacing it with what would make Marie Antoinette most engaging for entertainment rather than portraying the real events. In order to entertain the audience‚ Sofia Coppola decided to over exaggerate‚ a technique that popular
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meat doth this our Caesar feed…That he is grown so great?” mocking Caesar’s success as merely a product of luck rather than superiority. This provokes the audience to perceive Cassius as the jealous villain fuelled by his own lack of success‚ and sympathise with Caesar. Furthermore‚ Julius’ arrogance and flaws are brought to light by Flavius‚ whom Shakespeare uses bird imagery to allude to the Greek myth of Icarus. His dialogue states that his “growing feathers” should be “plucked from Caesar’s wing”
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viewer empathise‚ sympathise and understand different characters. It is used widely throughout I Am Sam‚ mainly to characterise the main character of the film‚ Sam. Everyone has faced problems that seem overwhelming at some point in their life. Sam was no different. Life was already hard for him because of his autism‚ but when a chain of events left him holding Lucy and watching Rebecca as she disappeared into the crowd‚ Sam was left alone and confused. To help the viewers sympathise or empathise with
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that it is possible to feel a small amount of sympathy towards Aeneas‚ however it is clear that this sympathy cannot extend as far as with Turnus. Virgil definitely wants his readers to sympathise with Turnus‚ at least to some extent. Throughout Book 12‚ it is considerably easier for us as the reader to sympathise with this heroic character. Virgil portrays Turnus as a rather helpless character for much of the final book of the Aeneid. For example‚ we cannot help but feel empathy and sympathy for
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and now he is isolated from the rest because all the others are fit and healthy and he is crippled. He has low hopes until Lennie and George tell him about their plan.” ’Cause i ain’t got no relatives nor nothing” this is another quote to make you sympathise for candy as it states that he has no family to leave money for so he can give the money to them to fulfil the “American dream” of George and Lennie. This is sad knowing what candy has been through and what he thinks of himself. Furthermore‚ another
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the novel‚ however starts with the protagonist Pip‚ in chapter I. In chapter I you are introduced to Pip; he is an orphan and all of his family are dead except for his elder sister who is his guardian. From the first page the reader immediately sympathises with Pip as he is a young‚ uneducated vulnerable boy alone in an exposed environment‚ with ‘dykes and mounds’‚ where ‘the wind was rushing’ and he was ‘growing afraid’ which ultimately left him ‘beginning to cry’. Dickens uses first person
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