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    In the play‚ the desire of power and possession exhibited by the maleficent characters in the play forget about the paramount stuff in life: such as the love for their parents‚ reverence for elders and sympathy for the poor. All of that superseded with a desire and thirst for more power and possessions. In King Lear‚ Shakespeare plays with the notion of prejudice against the older characters by their children and their partners as Shakespeare highlights

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    team environment is to have good communication. Having good communication skills include self-monitoring‚ sympathy for others‚ and deliberate decision making. When you self-monitor‚ you are staying aware of how your actions affect others in the group. It is also important to make sure you are willing to change your behavior when you see how your behavior affects the group. When you have sympathy for others in your group you are going beyond what others say and take into consideration for their feelings

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    attract sympathy and admiration from other‚ whites and blacks. Media helped the black community to publicize the immoral and violent behavior of their opponents to the world. For instance‚ media might exposed the pictures about the blacks who got beaten‚ and it could attract Americans sympathy‚ the injustice of police and white attackers were also exposed to the whole community‚ no matter blacks or whites. To showed all the unequal rights that blacks had could awaken the justice and sympathy of

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    sympathetic knowledge of the hidden sin in others hearts” (Hawthorne 80). This quote most definitely proves that Hester believed she had a newfound sense of sympathy. Hester’s newfound sense likely was a result of her own wrongdoing and punishment. She learned to sympathize with others who sinned once she herself sinned. The reason Hester developed sympathy can best be summed up by a popular quote from the book To Kill a Mockingbird which states‚ “You never really understand a person until you consider things

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    feelings deeply towards the injustice of the Stolen Generation. Rabbit Proof Fence‚ sympathises the viewer with the Aborigines‚ sharing the atmosphere of hopeless‚ powerlessness and loss‚ bringing out its significance in its message. The power of sympathy‚ kinship‚ bonds and injustice were used throughout the film to bias the viewers. Rabbit Proof Fence focuses on many of these techniques repeatedly to highlight this‚ including suitable background music‚ camera angles‚ symbolic‚ realism and audio

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    21‚ 2024 Goneril‚ Regan‚ and Edmund: Ambition and Pathos In Shakespeare’s tragedy of King Lear‚ the characters are battling strong ambition and motivation for power. Goneril‚ Regan and Edmund are complex characters that make the audience question sympathy for the antagonist. The three characters are motivated by the need for power and are willing to go to extreme lengths of manipulation and scheming to achieve it. Each character’s ambitions eventually lead to the tragic fate of death. Goneril‚ Regan

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    War Is Kind

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    When I first read this poem‚ I thought the speaker was showing sympathy by saying “war is kind” to people who had lost loved ones in the war‚ or that “war is kind” because it eventually makes peace. But then I realized‚ the more that I think about war and how it is not at all kind makes me believe the speaker in this poem is being sarcastic when he says that “war is kind”. I still believe that he was showing sympathy in a paradoxical way. Society tends to overlook how bad war really is and how gruesome

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    This poem stereotypically represents all Brooklyn Cops and convey what they go through on a typical shift. MacCaig uses realistic characterisation‚ imagery and attack on the senses. violent setting to enguage with the reader and evoke a sense of sympathy MacCaig uses a shocking description to introduce the cop‚ through a simile. The relevance of “ built like a gorilla” is that he is conveying to the reader how large a physique he has ‚ conveying a sense of being very strong and powerful

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    religion‚ Portia’s inability to choose who she wishes to marry and Shylock’s revenge towards Antonio by taking him to court because he did not repay the bond of three thousand ducats are all crucial moments in the play which stimulate audience empathy‚ sympathy and concern. This leaves the audience to question and consider their own moral values and relationships. Shakespeare displays Shylock‚ one of the main characters in the play The Merchant of Venice in his relationships with fellow humans through

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    Wilfred Owen

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    highlights the young young mens physical state of being. Bent double resembles that of an elderly person. This is ironic as young men are suppose to be physically strong. The use of simile "like old beggars under sacks" urges the audience to evoke sympathy and empathy toward the soldiers. Owen uses alliteration and hyperbole in one line to show the soldiers exhaustion. "Men marched asleep" creates an image in readers eyes of a zombie like being as well as highlighting the fact that these men are so

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