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    Sample Answer Sympathy in Macbeth For me‚ a fascinating aspect of the play ‘Macbeth’ is the way Shakespeare maintains the audience sympathy for Macbeth‚ a ‘tyrant whose name blisters our tongues‚’. By the end of the play Malcolm is justified when he says‚ ‘I think our country sinks beneath the yoke;/ It weeps‚ it bleeds‚ and each new day a gash/ Is added to her wounds.’ Yet‚ despite all of Macbeth’s tyrannous actions‚ somehow his tragic heroic status is intact at the end of the play. For me this

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    An Inspector calls shows us many elements that leads to create sympathy and J.B Priestly made a good play out of it. This political play brings lots of irony message especially on the way of the upper class or the middle class people treat the working class people. As one can see‚ the idea of the ignorance of the upper class people is being portrays since the very beginning of the first act. For example‚ the scene where they ignore the ring of the doorbell somehow symbolizes their ignorance. Although

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    Steinbeck creates sympathy in Of Mice and Men. Discuss in relation to one character Of Mice and Men is a novella set on a ranch in the Northern western state of California written by Californian novelist John Steinbeck and then published in the late 1930’s. Set in the time of The Great Depression and The nationwide effective Wall Street Crash the book features characters all around who have depressing lives but focusing in on two paradoxical characters that are always juxtaposed to one another

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    Both stories involve manipulation in different ways between men in an adult relationships in the kiss and manipulation of the young and vulnerable in the fly pepper .Both stories also involve twists at the end‚ which in turn serve to manipulate the reader. In the story "The Kiss" by Kate Chopin Natalie manipulates Brattain by playing upon him making her self look as the victim of the circumstances‚ by sucking up to him and making her self look pitiful. Saying that she felt very uncomfortable when

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    The Effect of Both Parents Working on Children “Good‚ honest‚ hardheaded character is a function of the home.  If the proper seed is sown there and properly nourished for a few years‚ it will not be easy for that plant to be uprooted.” ~ (George A. Dorsey. http://www.quotegarden.com/parents.html ). The fact that parents nowadays lack attention to their children has caused the child to have a weak performance‚ bad behavior‚ and a negative outlook had grown in popularity among people. It is possible

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    the only black man in the ranch who no one cares about. Also because of his race he is prejudiced against for example by Curley’s wife. Steinbeck shows sympathy for crooks by portraying all the negativity in his life‚ for example the size of his room‚ and the fact he has ointment for his crooked back.  One of the ways that Steinbeck creates sympathy for Crooks is through his description of him. In chapter 4 the reader learns that Crooks is ‘aloof’ but despite this Steinbeck manages to create compassion

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    Humanizing Morally Reprehensible Characters: Finding Sympathy for Protagonists in “A Rose for Emily” and “The Country Husband” Typically‚ readers have a difficult time rooting for or even sympathizing with characters who engage in behavior which is considered deviant or morally wrong. Two writers who challenge readers to find fallible and immoral characters sympathetic are John Cheever and William Faulkner. In John Cheever’s‚ “The Country Husband”‚ the reader truly sympathizes for Francis Weed

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    How does Haddon create sympathy for Ed Boone? In the novel‚ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time‚ I shall be exploring how Haddon creates sympathy for protagonist‚ Ed Boone. I have many aspects to protect my point of view. Firstly‚ our first impressions for the character of Ed Boone were that he was a caring and loving father that knew how to handle his even through his difficulties. We know he understands his son and can always sympathize with Christopher‚ because instead of shouting

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    How does Steinbeck create sympathy for Candy and his position on the ranch? Of Mice and Men is a novel written by John Steinbeck‚ set in America in the Great Depression of the 1930s. The main characters in the book are the clever‚ quick George‚ and his slow‚ child-like companion Lennie. They are itinerant workers who find work on a ranch in California’s Salinas Valley. There are many characters on the ranch‚ including Curley‚ Slim‚ and Crooks. However‚ the first ranch worker George and Lennie

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    Compare and Contrast the ways in which two Poets create Sympathy for their Characters – ‘On a Portrait of a Deaf Man’ and ‘The River God’. The poems ‘On a Portrait of a Deaf Man’‚ written by John Betjeman and ‘The River God’‚ written by Stevie Smith appear as two very different poems; one in monologue form and the other in a regular form; but they are in fact two very similar poems. ‘On a Portrait of a Deaf Man’ presents a character mourning the death of a deaf man who was very close to him/her

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