Neither Medea nor Jason deserve our sympathy || Faigy Gross Euripides wrenches and pulls at the emotions of the reader from every angle throughout his play of Medea‚ where he compels the audience to feel sympathy for both Medea and those she causes to suffer. At the inception of the play‚ Euripides positons the audience to pity Medea‚ employing an emphatic nurse figure to describe her tormented past. In contrast‚ the audience are manipulated to be unsympathetic towards Jason who has betrayed Medea
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When you have such a great passion for something‚ you know exactly what to say about it. That’s why I chose the poem called “Dance”. The author is Paul Hayward and he seems to have a passion for not only writing but dance. I really just get what he is saying; It just makes sense to me. This poem is just so meaningful in my eyes. The author just describes everything so thoroughly and everything has a purpose. The way he explains feelings is very similar to how my team and I feel before we perform
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The Scientific American article‚ “Reviving Dead Zones” by Laurence Mee focuses on answering the essential question‚ “How can we restore coastal seas ravaged by runaway plant and algae growth caused by human activities?” The article writes about eutrophication. Eutrophication is where an influx of nutrients that are normally limiting such as nitrogen and phosphorus overwhelms an aquatic ecosystem. These nutrients allow for the rapid growth of phytoplankton (floating algae). When these organisms die
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events are replicated in this book‚ which makes the reader to be sympathetic. In the novel Frankenstein‚ many themes are discussed and a major one is sympathy. Sympathy is defined as “feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else’s misfortune.” –TheFreeDictionary. When sympathy is discussed in Frankenstein‚ we are mostly talking about having sympathy towards the monster or Victor Frankenstein. Different arguments and points support both sides‚ but it entirely depends on the readers’ perspective; a
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Sympathy is a universal emotion that we‚ as human all tend to felt toward people have an unfortunate‚ a harsher‚ more oppressed life than us. In Ernest Hemmingway’s ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ 1952 novella‚ an old Cuban fisherman named Santiago‚ our protagonist has strongly elicited our sympathy toward him due to the harsh‚ lonely‚ poor and full-of-suffering life that he had have to experience‚ especially when he loosed the greatest catch of his life: the marlin. Despite that there are counter arguments
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Grendel – Sympathy When Beowulf is retold from Grendel’s point of view many different assumptions can be made when evaluating and comparing Grendel to Beowulf. The sympathy‚ which Grendel withholds‚ represents his innocence and how he isn’t just a “monster.” Due to this reason‚ readers feel very sympathetic towards Grendel compared to Beowulf due to the fact that he is incoherent to the many actions humans perform. Readers who have read Beowulf notice the different in Grendel’s character
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In the Epic poem Paradise Lost‚ Milton develops Satans character to be a hero. This is the opposite of what most of us have learned growing up‚ it may be a hard pill to swallow‚ finding that you are feeling empathy for the protagonish. Although Satan is the protagonist‚ he is a hero because Milton shows us he is relatable‚ displays sympathy and a sense of leadership. He is relatable through his experience after being cast down from heaven. Satan has showed examples of Sympathy through out the movie
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World Literature 3 26 September 2013 The Mighty Achilles Achilles is considered immortal‚ but has many features that make him human. In the epic poem Iliad‚ written by Homer‚ Achilles is known to be strong and courageous; he leaves his family to fight in the war against the Trojans. Achilles is a mighty warrior that shows feelings and emotions that are human. Although Achilles may exhibit heartless and cruel tendencies like the way he killed Hector showing virtually no feelings‚ he is ultimately
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Paul Sheldon‚ a romance author‚ gets into a car accident and is abducted by a woman. This woman‚ Annie Wilkes‚ is a nurse who lives alone in a house on a mountain. Paul wakes up bedridden with broken legs and dislocated shoulder‚ wondering where he’s at. Paul correctly guesses that Annie Wilkes is his number one fan. Annie is a nurse who tells Paul that she will take care of him as long as he continues to write the Misery novels for her. She gives him pain killers which he becomes addicted to. Annie
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Did you know that Dunbar cave is the only site in the united states where you can go see mississippian art from apparently seven hundred years ago! The cave has closed numerous of time‚unfortunately in 2002 they had to close out the inside to all the public do to health issues. They opened back up a fews years later. In 2010 they made it official to close the inside of the cave due to bat infestations as well with other animals. The Dunbar cave is open to see the Native American drawings. In the
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