To put it very simply - Sympathy is when you see a person depressed. You say you understand their situation. You agree with their emotion that they are going through. You might even go a step further to say that you would have also reacted in the same way had you been a part of
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What is the most important thing in your life? Some people think love is most important‚ but not the most important. However‚ there are two people‚ Nora Helmer the protagonist of the play‚ “A Doll House” and Jay Gatsby the protagonist of the novel‚ “The Great Gatsby” both think love is the most important thing in their lives. Even though they have had similar experience about love‚ Nora is more sympathetic because she is brave‚ kind‚ and innocent. Gatsby is less sympathetic than Nora. To
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interesting play‚ by Tennessee Williams. The character ’Blanche DuBois’ is created to evoke sympathy‚ as the story follows her tragic deterioration in the months she lived with her sister Stella‚ and brother-in-law Stanley. After reading the play‚ I saw Blanche as the victim of Stanley’s aggressive ways‚ and I also saw her as a hero in my eyes. Blanche’s devistating past is just one of the reasons I felt sympathy for her. Troubled from her past‚ Blanche has a sence of falseness‚ which increasingly becomes
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Don’t B Cooped Up! “I know what the caged bird feels‚ atlas!” (Dunbar). Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem “Sympathy” can be interpreted from a multitude of lens; whether seen from a more historical view or an emotional view‚ the poem conveys a very real and similar message. The poem plays off the idea of being “cooped up” in a cage and longing to escape its ‘cruel bars’ (Dunbar). When analyzing each of the three Professors’ interpretations‚ they all had a solid notion of what Dunbar was trying to express
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Hickock‚ Dick’s parents who are worried for their son and concerned about his whereabouts. The author was able to create and portray a good amount of sympathy for Dick’s parents by making them appear poor and gentle as well as by how they speak about their son‚ and are willing to forgive
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Those That Hurt‚ Hurt: Eliciting Sympathy for the Unsympathetic in ‘The Bluest Eye’ Case Study: Cholly Breedlove “There is really nothing more to say—except why. But since why is difficult to handle‚ one must take refuge in how.” Toni Morrison‚ The Bluest Eye Set in Ohio in 1941‚ In The Bluest Eye tells the story of Pecola Breedlove‚ a black 11-year-old girl who is raped by her father‚ Cholly. Eliciting sympathy for Cholly might seem impossible‚ as we will see that his unfathomable act ultimately
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In plays‚ writers position the audience so that we feel sympathy for some characters and not for others. The Glass Menagerie‚ written by Tennessee Williams is about one families struggle with each other and the society. Williams uses the characterisation of Laura‚ Tom and Jim to make us feel sympathy for Laura and Tom‚ whilst we dislike Jim. In the Glass Menagerie‚ Williams positions us so that we feel sympathy for Laura. By most readers she is generally considered the main protagonist of the story
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the book of‚ “Of Mice and Men” there are many characters who deserve our sympathy‚ for instance there is Lennie‚ George‚Curley‚Carlson‚Slim‚Curley’s Wife‚Crooks and several other characters. These characters make us feel sympathetic towards them weather is it because how they are treated or how they live their lives or how they behave. But although these characters deserve sympathy‚ Crooks and Curley’s Wife deserve more sympathy because of these reasons‚ Crooks is treated badly due to his race‚ as well
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obstacles that was required with being a black enslaved man. The Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass was an autobiography that explained Douglass life when he was a slave and how he personally dealt with life during the 1800’s. Even though sympathy
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The Capability of Sympathy Imagine a woman desperately scrounging for crumbs in the cupboards of her kitchen. Her face sunken with grief as she looks for anything that might quell the pleas of her starving son. Her search turns up empty-handed‚ and she is then forced to either let her child go hungry or find another means of obtaining food. Many scenarios like this can be found in Gerry Smith’s “How a Government Computer Glitch Forced Thousands of Families to go Hungry. It is an article about a
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