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    These 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

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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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    Runner‚ they might consider Amir to be evil or immoral. Based on his actions from his childhood and teenage years he does things that seem inhumane and inconsiderate. However‚ the full presentation of Amir is very important to the complexity of his character. The events that happen throughout the book make readers feel more sympathetic because the author explains scenarios that readers feel bad that Amir had to go through those experiences. Readers begin to sympathize more with Amir because they understand

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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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    “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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    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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    English Assessment #2 1) How does Michael Morpurgo evoke sympathy for refugees in his novel shadow? Michael Morpurgo evokes sympathy for refugees in his novel shadow by utilizing emotive language to express the cruel conditions the refugees experience whilst travelling to Tehran in the back of a big pickup truck. The refugee’s situation is very partitioned because whilst their home country is at war‚ Refugees are forced to flee the horrible living conditions and seek safety. Michael Morpurgo

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    Sympathy For King Lear

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    King Lear If I were to stage a performance of King Lear‚ I would attempt to cultivates more sympathy for the unruly royal father. When I first read this play‚ I judged King Lear harshly for making one foolish mistake after another. I viewed his treatment of Regan‚ and Goneril as sufficient evidence for his eviction. King Lear was neither intelligent or moral. He was simply an outdated‚ foolish‚ and hostile old man. However‚ after digesting the play I have found the folly of my ways. Since the

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    the creature and many other people’s subsequent rejection of the creature‚ based on appearance‚ reminds the reader of how society (both in Shelley’s era and in the modern day)‚ can and do reject those who are different and Shelley cultivates more sympathy from the reader this way. Frankenstein has had love and support from family all his life‚ by showing us Frankenstein’s childhood and then showing us his acts toward the creature readers are positioned to think of how callous‚ selfish and awful Frankenstein

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    Sympathy is everywhere. Whether it’s in movies or seeing someone go through something‚ you feel it. For example‚ in The Lion King when Simba’s dad dies‚ the audience feels sympathy. Even books with made-up characters makes the reader feel sympathy. In Of Mice and Men‚ a lot of characters have their own struggles‚ and some deserve more sympathy than others. Although Curley’s wife and George deserve the reader’s sympathy‚ Lennie is the most sympathetic character in the novel because he has a mental

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