Empathy-altruism

What can define the kindness of strangers? How they look or talk? Or just who they are as a person? How can you tell if you are actually getting help, or just getting pity? Can those two things really be the same thing? After all help is help no matter how you get it. Think about these question as I evaluate both “Angela’s Ashes”(McCourt) and “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”(Twain). Being poor is always hard, and being poor in Limerick, Ireland during the 1930’s seemed to top the cake in…

Empathy allows me to enter the reality of the polish people by imagining myself in their position. The descriptive language used by the author helped me to understand what the people were feeling at that time. An effective example of this is just a single line, “I said nothing and sweated like a mouse”(Wazyk, 461), and just through that sentence one can feel the fear; the fear that turned a man into a mouse scared for his life. Adam Wazyk has found a way to describe the feelings of his fellow…

was killed. The author’s use of language and details causes the reader to empathize with the man for the killing, feel sympathy for the human-like snake, and experience both sympathy and empathy through the description of setting. The imagery used to describe the setting creates both sympathy for the man and empathy for the snake. The man kills the…

The phrase “like father, like son” is never more well applied to any duo as it is to Victor and his Creature. Both of these characters display acts of such deplorable moral character that it renders them both unpitiable. While many would say that the Creature is only bad because others around him treat him badly, the heinousness of his crimes would prove otherwise. Pity for the Creature in Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein is woefully misplaced: both he and Victor are impulsive, selfish, and lack in…

for some. The elderly or their families don 't need sympathy, or to feel sorry for them, they need someone to understand and appreciate what they are going through. There are many attributes a person can possess, but the ability to take action from empathy is one of the most important qualities a person can discover as it can help…

A game of emotions Human beings are known to be unpredictable, adaptable to every situation, and most definitely flawed. Such imperfections often stand out when reading popular books about a perfect character or watching movies with an unrealistic ending. Sometimes, the reality of life comes last in these works and people are left to wonder if they truly are the only flawed ones. Nevertheless, authors like Esi Edugyan have refrained from embellishing the human nature in some of their works and…

How would you react to hearing that your neighbor was being evicted because they could not afford to pay their rent? Or when someone robs your store and tells you that they did it to feed their family? Would you immediately feel pity for someone who is obviously less fortunate than you are or would you think “oh well, that’s not my problem?” Unfortunately, we live in a world where, when someone else’s experiences or lifestyle does not affect us directly, then we do not know how they feel nor do…

Cognitive empathy and affective empathy they both provide a foundation for guiding our behavior toward others. Cognitive empathy is the ability to understand the thoughts and feelings of others. In other words, it’s putting yourself in someone else shoes, others called this perspective thinking as well. Cognitive empathy is responsible to perceived when one sees something they comprehend and adopts their perspective. People that acquire these type of empathy can be found in office and…

Why are women able to be deadly? People normally sympathize with women. Some people have to realize that not all women deserve that sympathy. No matter how much a women look fine it does not mean they actually are. There are books, movies, and TV shows that have been created to show why not all women deserve sympathy and are not always innocent either. In the TV show Deadly Women, Season 5 Episode 2, the show depicts women as being capable of murder because when strong emotions are aroused,…

or others. This is a similar concept in Mental Health Counseling. According to Rogers, the most effective helper is one who can provide three necessary and sufficient conditions for client growth. These conditions are empathy, genuineness, and acceptance. If these conditions of empathy, genuineness, and acceptance can be provided for the client, then the probability that the client will experience positive emotional movement is…