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    How does Charlotte Brounte Create Sympathy For Jane In The First Two Chapters Of The Novel? Jane Eyre is a fictional autobiography which was written in 1848. It is about a young girl who is abused and tortured by her aunt and cousins, (the people she lives with). There are many ways that Charlotte Brounte creates sympathy for Jane in the first two chapters. However the four main ways are: the setting, the language used, the structure of the chapters and finally the social content.

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    what the client was feeling during the experience (2) the response to the client’s experiences based on the understanding of what the counselor understand when the client was expression their feelings. With advanced empathy the counselors are going beyond what they think the client is feeling on the outside and try to explore what the client is feeling or thinking on the inside. Advanced level empathy is also

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    he wanted: sympathy (Woolf 151)”. This need for sympathy is Mr. Ramsay’s way of connecting to others. He wants to feel the emotional comfort of someone feeling sad for him just like Mrs. Ramsay does before her death. This want is so strong that he does not have trouble with encouraging sympathy within others. This shows how much Mr. Ramsay has changed. Although Mr. Ramsay still asks for what he wants through indirect mean and still craves sympathy from those around him, that sympathy is not about

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    constant use of a letter, can derive emotions and feelings from the audience. The use of literary devices may seem like small changes, but it makes a huge difference in the reader's mind. In the play, Hamlet, written by William Shakespeare, many devices are used to trigger the reader's emotions and get them to connect to the main idea. In act 3, scene 1, the famous soliloquy of Hamlet, incorporates the use of many devices to induce the audience’s sympathy for Hamlet. Metaphors are one of the main devices

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    Book Assignment As I read Rising Strong by Brene Brown it really hit home with me. In her book she talks about something most people do not like to deal with, which is shame and being vulnerable. We all feel shame no matter who we are. Some people take it better than others do. Some people take their shame and burry it deep down inside them and others takes their shame and makes great success stories out of it. Brene Brown talks about how much she struggled with being vulnerable and how she dealt

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    in the book is that it’s what’s on the inside that makes him human. This monster is capable of human emotions and intelligence, he learns to read write and think like a human. This is what makes us have sympathy to the monster- that we can relate to his feelings. The monster gains our sympathy from the telling of his perspective. His personal story reveals his own suffering and rejection. This monster has not been given a name, so already he must feel like he does not belong. To have a name means

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    of joy or grief. Smith states that although we can sympathy with others’ emotion, we cannot truly go beyond our own personal experience and preconception because “it is by the imagination only that we can for any conception of what he suffers” (1). Therefore, although one may sympathy with others’ feelings, people are always limited to their “own person.” Smith explores “there are some passions of which the expressions excite no sort of sympathy” (2) because it may depend on people personal perception

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    2013). Staying out of judgment could mean listening without feeling a certain way. Recognizing emotion and communicating refers to instead of sympathizing, realizing a person’s emotion and being there for them and telling them “I have been there I know how you feel” (Brown, 2013). Brown uses sympathy as a comparison to empathy (Brown, 2013). She explains how sympathy is not as beneficial as empathy (Brown, 2013). Brown explains sympathy as

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    Empathy In The Rattler

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    place. Throughout the passage, language, and detail about the man, the rattler, and the setting invite the reader to feel either sympathy or empathy toward the man and the rattler. Admittedly, empathy can be felt for the man, for the fact that he does not want to kill the snake. In “the sport in taking a life is a satisfaction I can’t feel,” the man expresses his feelings of dislike towards killing and shows a glimpse of character morale, this being something people can relate too. In addition to

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    Empathy Vs. Sympathy

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    Sympathy vs Empathy Those two terms sympathy and empathy are commonly confused. The dictionary said, “Sympathy is felling compassion or pity for the hardships that another person encounters, while empathy is putting yourself in the shoes of others.” Sylvia Morelli and Matt Lieberman used fMRIs to study empathy. There are physiology and psychology processes to measure how people response to this felling. Morelli and Lieberman were looking how people brain response when people

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