Sympathies

English 16 November 2017 Sympathy for the Monster I feel sympathetic for the creature on many occasions in the fiction novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Frankenstein has brought something to life that he cannot even look at without being horrified. I believe it was wrong that Frankenstein played God and created something he didn’t understand. Once you are finished with this essay I believe you will agree with me. In chapter 15 there are many times the reader feels sympathy for the monster. “As I

“A Rose for Emily” is a short story in which William Faulkner, the author uses manipulation of time and the perspective of the townspeople to present the life of a seemingly psychotic titular character, Emily Grierson. Emily, throughout her life, faces the hardships of loneliness and disconnection in life through the deaths of her loved ones and the coming of a transforming society. When Emily’s father dies, she loses the only person that was ever associated with her, until she finally finds love

Sympathy in The Reprimand Sympathy is an extension of empathic concern, or the perception, understanding, and reaction to the distress or need of another human being. Sympathy must be given and received in order for the world to operate because all humans make mistakes that impact other people’s lives. The Reprimand is a short “phone play” written by Jane Anderson in 2000. The two characters, Rhona and Mim, have a confrontation about what Rhona believes to be an inappropriate remark during a

written in the ancient Greek style. In this play, it follows the journey Medea makes, and not only narrates, but commentates on what is happening. Euripedes uses the Chorus as a literary device to raise certain issues, and to influence where the sympathies of the audience lie. <br> <br>In the list of characters at the beginning of the play, the Chorus is stated to be a chorus of Corinthian Women. This draws the first link between them and Medea. The Chorus follows Medea on her journey through this

Cold Feet or How I Plunged into a Tsunami and Body Surfed to the Jersey Shore by Abug Cursed. This damn curse. Cursed with empathy. There’s nothing worse. Sympathy, a joke, so superficial and so meaningless. The empty gesture of going through the motions, “My deepest sympathy.” “My sincerest condolences.” “Oh, I’m so sorry.” Whereas empathy is gut wrenching to the point where it can leave one speechless and,to use a well worn and appropriate cliche, all choked up. Once again, I’m submerged in the

The Inconvenient Truth The abstraction behind the term empathy is easily argued as one of society’s greatest misconceptions, actively acting as a redoubtable paragon of delusion. Much of this idea is founded upon the belief that the general collective are inherently good people. However, the concept, through its delusive facade, is repeatedly betrayed in the media as well as in various works of classical and modernized literature. As effectively portrayed in the novel, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

To be able to feel sympathy, humans first must be able to read into and understand another’s emotions. Mary Shelley uses this human aspect in her novel Frankenstein, as readers’ emotions are played. Set in the early 1900s, the novel is a recount of Victor Frankenstein’s life as he tells it to Robert Walter, a man leading an exploration to the North Pole. Frankenstein starts his narrative explaining how he was a very curious child, and eventually went off to college and conducted an experiment on

Sympathy or mutual identification in Iliad Sympathy and mutual identification, serving important psychological roles in Illiad, function differently in regarding heroes and immortals. The words “sympathy” itself means to feel sorry or grief for others, which is a mutual psychological process. It can be either one-sided or both-sided. “Mutual identification” means people find something about themselves from others, which is a higher stage of sympathy. For this mutual process to happen, people need

Beware of the Black Magic, it leads to Double Meanings Mikhail Bulgakov’s work of art novel, The Master and Margarita, has influenced many people to create some kind of spin off of it, whether it be a song, painting, or even a movie, it is always entertaining. Speaking about movies, to this day there are more than thirteen films made of or based on The Master and Margarita from countries all over the world, such as Italy and France. Not only are there movies but soap operas aired on TV have also

What is Good If There is No Evil? This satire involves the devil, a psych ward, and love. Although this story is fictional, it allegorises historical events. The Master and Margarita was written in the time of Stalinism. Mikhail Bulgakov, the author, used a lot of symbolism and magical realism to write about the environment he was in without being forthright about it. He used polarities, such as good vs evil and rational vs irrational, to get his point across to readers. The theme of The Master