Pity

written by Sophocles. In the story Antigone the King of Thebes Creon is a tragic hero. He stoned his niece even though everyone tells him that they disagree with him which is hubris. He was the son of Menoikeus, he affected the audience by fear and/or pity, and he has realize he has made an irreversible mistake. In the story Antigone the author Sophocles has created the character Creon who is the new King of Thebes, and son of Menoikeus, and has given him the characteristics of a tragic hero.…

the human soul, primarily as one of innocence that believes man was created in the physical and virtuous image of God, “For Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love/Is God,…

well as characters that display them will be discussed. The first characteristic of a tragic hero is that the character evokes feelings of pity or fear in the audience. “It should, moreover, imitate actions which excite pity and fear, this being the distinctive mark of tragic imitation (Aristotle, 1895). The characters in the three novels elicit feelings of pity, fear or both in the audience.…

is the feeling we get when we feel sorry for someone or something and when we have pity for someone or something. Sympathy is displayed in many different ways especially with people and the way they are taken away from everything they own. Like in tornadoes and hurricanes. In the book, Of Mice and Men there is great amount of sympathy about how the readers will feel pity amongst the different characters. There is pity against Lennie Small, Curley’s Wife and Crooks. Lennie Small has had struggles…

LT391: Essay (2) “To write is to love and honour and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.” Sometime it is devastating that broken relationship can never be fixed and this is presented in this short story, “Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice”, in which the protagonist learns the genuine significance of writing by the loss of his story which is destroyed by how it is made. Nam Lee is portrayed as a writing student who takes writing too casually and engaging the…

I hope people but not because I pity them that because I know where they've been, because I walked in their shoes. Maybe not exactly the same, maybe the details or tweaked a little and maybe one of us has it worse off than the other but nonetheless you help people because you want to…

The art proper is the expressing of an emotion and becoming fully conscious of that peculiar emotion. However, in a tragedy, the artist induces fear or pity in the audience by directly describing the general emotion that is typical to arouse such emotion as fear and pity. As the performance continues, the fear and pity the audience feels reaches a point of revelation and as a result, a state of catharsis. Moreover, the art proper is the expression of emotion in which by expression the…

timid and flighty animal, who only differs from other animals in that he has the ability to will. Perhaps what is most important in Rousseau’s discussion of the natural man, is his possession of the only natural virtue: pity. Pity is what really ties us to each other. It is pity that moderates in each man “the…

How Diction Creates Pity in The Odyssey In “The Odyssey” an epic poem Homer uses diction to create a pitiful mood within book 17 as a description of Argos, Odysseus’ dog is given. While a comparison of Argos’ past and present is given he is described to be “Treated as rubbish now…”(319.383). The word rubbish means a “waste material”, for one to “reject as worthless”, and being useless. All of which carry a negative connotation; by stating that Argos is now treated as rubbish it is shown that…

Health and Morality: The Fault in Our Stars Movies about illness and medical conditions often create a realistic representation of stigmas and judgments that are associated with a character’s diagnosis. The movie adaptation of John Green’s novel The Fault in Our Stars follows the love story of two teens, Hazel Lancaster and Augustus Waters, who are both diagnosed with cancer. Expected illness behavior related to childhood cancer is represented in the interactions that others have with the main…