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    hardships allow the audience to mourn with and connect to Hamlet’s complex character. Shakespeare evokes sympathy from the reader through the hastened marriage of Hamlet’s mother‚ the murderess actions of his wretched uncle‚ and Hamlet’s apparent madness. These occurrences develop not only sympathy from the audience‚ but the main theme of revenge as Hamlet seeks to avenge his father’s wrongful death. Sympathy is created for Hamlet through his father’s death and his mother and uncles hastened marriage.The

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    19). This brings readers to another topic that breeds sympathy for Amir. The young Pashtun boy grew up in a big confusing world without the help of his biological mother. Amir grew up not having a mother and knowing little about her. In the evolutionary perspective‚ every child needs their mother to help them

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    English Diagnostic: Sympathy for a Murderer Roald Dahl makes the reader feel sympathy for Mary Maloney even though she has just murdered her own husband by skillfully developing her character and by placing Mrs. Maloney in a situation that justifies her actions. Firstly‚ the authour begins the short story by showing how loyal and loving Mary Maloney is towards her husband. He starts off with telling the reader how Mrs. Maloney looks forward to him coming home and pampers him after his workday

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    a major role. Heathcliff‚ a major character in the novel‚ starts off as an orphan‚ and Mr. Earnshaw takes him in as his own. When Mr. Earnshaw passes away‚ his son‚ Hindley Earnshaw‚ begins to treat Heathcliff differently since he’s of a different social class. All throughout the novel‚ Heathcliff is turned away because of his lower social status. Heathcliff is alienated from his society‚ and thus in return he goes out seeking revenge. The main plot of the story contains Heathcliff seeking out revenge

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    In chapter 10‚ Heathcliff returns‚ visiting Thrushcross Grange. Look at both Catherine and Linton’s reactions‚ also Isabella’s. Explore the presentation of Heathcliff in chapter 10. How is he presented to have changed and how is he the same as before? In the novel ‘Wuthering Heights’ written by Emily Bronte‚ the writer explores the characters of Catherine‚ Heathcliff and Edgar amongst many others. She portrays them as being caught in a ‘love triangle’‚ showing the difficulty of choosing the right

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    English 9 December 2016 Sympathy for A Cyclops "Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about” (Mass). Every being on this world has their own struggles‚ their own hardships‚ that they must face. However‚ few receive the sympathy they deserve. No one thinks about feeling sympathy for a horrific monster. Polyphemus the cyclops from Homer’s poem‚ The Odyssey is an atrocious creature who deserves sympathy. Although he was cruel to Odysseus’s men‚ sympathy is definitely felt for

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    “Greene does not encourage us to find much sympathy for any of the character” At the beginning of the novel‚ from the reader’s perspective Spicer gives the impression of being a young boy‚ in particular with his refusal to eat after they have murdered Hale. “I’ll be sick...if I eat” The Boy then responds with “Spew then”‚ this suggests that Spicer has a weakness especially within the group. As well as this it implies that Spicer regrets or feels a large amount of emotion towards the act they

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    Sympathy Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer relates to the world the journey of the young and adventurous Chris McCandless. Chris was an intelligent‚ albeit arrogant‚ man who separated himself from society and travelled into the Alaskan wild to‚ in the words of Chris himself‚ “kill the false being within”. He persevered through months of the wilderness‚ but soon found himself trapped and starving. Chris eventually died there and was found shortly after‚ quickly generating publicity. Many people who knew

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    Barristers in court often attempt to pull on the emotions of the jury to get their sympathy in order to excuse the perpetrator of a crime. It is no different for the narrators in these novels. It is true to the gothic genre to have male characters with a mysterious painful past which haunts them throughout the novel. Both Bronte and Du Maurier attempt to justify the crimes committed by their male protagonists Edgar Rochester and Maxim De Winter. Du Maurier seeks to justify why Maxim killed his first

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    centered around Mr. Heathcliff and his vengeance after losing his true love because of segregation‚ social class‚ and jealousy. Mr. Heathcliff was introduced in Chapter One as a mysterious man whose secretive past and rude behavior captured the interest of Mr. Lockwood. Segregation was the first noticeable hardship that Heathcliff endured because of his appearance and education. When Hindley returned to Wuthering Heights‚ Hindley’s jealousy was an additional obstacle that kept Heathcliff and Catherine

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