Grendel. Throughout the book everyone’s feelings towards Grendel is that of a bad person or creature. In Grendel my sympathy for Grendel fluctuates. Grendel starts out as a sympathetic character because he is an innocent curious child with a mother who doesn’t talk‚ and lives in a cave. As the story moves on Grendel is misunderstood then starts to make decisions that makes my sympathy for him decrease. Throughout the book there are three stages to Grendels’ life. The first stage starts off with
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Tyler | Compassion | March 11/13 | A compass is a navigational tool used to guide its user in a desired direction. It has four directions; east‚ west‚ north and south. A moral compass‚ which I have recently learned‚ is also used to guide its user in a desired direction. A moral compass‚ when used‚ will provide its user moral focus as the user learns to lead in an ever more challenging and demanding world throughout their life and career. A good leader needs a moral compass that
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there were more differences than similarities. This may be true‚ but both still are great warriors for their side; Achilles for the Archaeans and Hector for Troy. And while Achilles and Hector fight on opposing sides‚ both heroes demonstrate honor‚ sympathy‚ and determination. Even though Achilles and Hector on opposing sides‚ each demonstrates honor to those around them. Hector shows time and time again his devotion and honor to his family‚ including his parents and wife‚ and his city including the
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Essay about Mrs Johnstone In the play Blood Brothers there are many characters. These characters portray different themes. The play was written around the 1960’s-1980’s. Russell wrote this play as he disagreed with the way the society was. He shows the disadvantages of working class women through Mrs Johnstone. In this essay I am going to focus on the character of Mrs Johnstone. At the start of Act One the narrator makes Mrs Johnstone out to be a bad person. When he says “An’ did y’ never
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the artistic world and come to the real world. Overall‚ Lord Henry and Dorian Gray do fit the definitions as artists in Oscar Wilde’s perspective by having no desires to prove anything‚ by having to express everything‚ and by having no ethical sympathies. Lord Henry and Dorian Gray are artists‚ according to Oscar Wilde‚ because no desires are arousing to prove anything. “Resist it‚ and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden itself‚ with desire for what its monstrous
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about others. The author states‚ ¨It was the very thing he (Scrooge) liked. To edge his way along the crowded paths of life‚ warning all human sympathy to keep its distance‚ was what the knowing ones call nuts to Scrooge.¨ (Dickens‚ 3-4)Scrooge is obviously uncaring towards his fellow man‚ for he despises human sympathy and wishes those who have sympathy to stay back. Also‚ Scrooge states‚ ¨Let me hear another sound from you‚’’ said Scrooge‚ ¨and you’ll keep your Christmas by losing your situation
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and “agony”. This makes me feel sympathy for Victor because he worked hard and saw that he failed his work. At the beginning of the 19th century there was a massive interest in electricity so Shelley made many references to this in the novel such as‚ ‘ infuse a spark’. Shelley also a lot of physical words to describe his emotions such as ‘my candle was nearly burnt out’. This describes how Victor was tired and exhausted due to working the long hours. I feel sympathy for Victor here
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1. My initial reaction to this piece was a mix of sadness‚ disgust and confusion. I didn’t think it was possible for a mother to neglect their child to such extremes. To me it seems outlandish for a child to never be held or given the basic forms of human contact. Then for her brothers to not have an instinct to protect her‚ surprised me as well. I have five brothers; four are half brothers and two I’ve never met. If I found out any one of them was in trouble‚ there is no doubt in my mind I would
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Zayra Rendon Mrs. Smith ENGL 1102 10 Feb 2017 Sonny’s Blues was first published in 1957 by James Baldwin. The story takes place in Harlem‚ a historically African American neighborhood in New York City. This story was the start of Baldwin commitment to the civil rights movement‚ and he became a spokesman for African Americans during the 60’s. Sonny’s Blues is about two brothers‚ Sonny and the narrator‚ that suffer in multiple ways that involves music‚ drug abuse‚ the way the interact with each other
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Throughout the poem‚ Plath uses metaphors about the Holocaust to illustrate Lady Lazarus’s pain and suffering‚ and this may provoke sympathy in the reader. She decribes Lady Lazarus’ foot as a “paperweight” and her face is “featureless fine Jew linen” which may connote the narrator’s feelings of being heavy and undistinguishable from those around her. The poem may be an extended metaphor for depression. If the character’s foot is a “paperweight” then it would be difficult to move‚ and Plath may be
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