Empathy

To feel sympathy for someone is to feel as if you can relate and connect with this person on an emotional level. Sympathy is a powerful feeling, and it can change people’s views of how they see the cruelest people. People usually feel sympathy for someone when they understand what a person is experiencing in their life. In the book, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, the main character, Okonkwo, has his life flipped upside down and fall to pieces when he is exiled out of his village for seven…

Sympathy, an emotional response we have in reaction when a fellow living being is in distress or of need, a response that makes use alive. Something that makes us human. Emotional responses influence our actions, influences our decision making, and influences how we see people. The media knows this. SPCA does this with their sad dog commercials. They try to make you sympathize with their cause so that you can decide to join it and or donate to it. In literature, One of the reasons Lennie is a…

Challenging Five Myths on Emotions First myth: Allowing for my emotions creates suffering. It is just the other way round: trying to escape from emotions that feel uncomfortable to us is what creates suffering in the long run. It is impossible to suffer without judging our experience. If we feel anger, fear or sadness and judge these emotions as bad and unwanted, what we do is trying to cut ourselves off from the part of us that feels them. Every emotion is a messenger and numbing ourselves…

Maya Angelo once said “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” Compassion is a feeling of deep sympathy for another who is stricken by misfortune accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering, compassion international is a big part in some kid’s life. Many people around the world support compassion international once they learn what all happens and what they do for kids all around the…

Sympathy #2 What is having sympathy? Google describes sympathy as "feeling of pity and distress for another person's setback". Subsequent to perusing the definition one would not more often than not relate this sympathy to a sentiment which one would have towards a killer or a beast. In any case, would it be advisable for it to dependably be like this? In the novel, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, sensitivity is regularly given to Victor Frankenstein, the maker of the animal, when it ought to be…

Most people see the word compassion as another word in the dictionary when actually it’s a word with so much meaning and a form of way of expressing your emotions. Compassion is having kindness and feeling others pain when suffering. Compassion brings people together and makes the world a better place. But, most importantly it has allowed us to connect with others and show our emotions to others. It’s an important need to us humans because it keeps us emotionally connected. The article “Living…

In “Saturday the Small Pox,” one pattern that is used throughout this passage is the use of objects or ideas to indirectly describe her beauty. In line one, Montagu describes how no one would ever acknowledge the idea of betraying her. This could be indirectly implying that men would never do such a foolish thing because her beauty is so remarkable and is the fairest of them all. To explain her contraction of smallpox, she also writes about how her beauty has fled. In line 9, she notes that her…

Macbeth and Beowulf: The Insight to Human Emotion (Final Draft) Can men as great as Macbeth and Beowulf, display human emotion? The answer of course is that they can; what many do not notice is that these characters can actually give an insight into real people. As a good close reader, one can pick up on many emotions in both Macbeth, by Shakespeare and Beowulf, the epic. The emotions displayed throughout the two texts can give the reader insight into the human mind. Macbeth is a powerful…

It is no doubt that the monster in Mary Shelley’s book, Frankenstein, is a complex character. From murdering a total of six people, three directly and three indirectly, to having hopes to be accepted by society makes the monster a two-sided character. The monster shows his good side several times in the book and then taints his image by killing an innocent person. Despite the crimes he commits, the monster connects with the readers on an emotional level. Readers are instantly attached to the…

A tragic hero is a character within a literary work that possesses a tragic flaw that will ultimately incur the downfall of the character, regardless of the character’s good intentions. Macbeth, from Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, is, without a doubt, one of the most prevalent tragic heroes throughout all works of literature. Macbeth is a tragic hero as he possesses noble stature, a tragic flaw, free choice, an increased awareness of his downfall, and a punishment that exceeds his crimes, all…