Pity

Stemming from Aristotle’s views on tragedy, there must be an action that is serious, complete and of a certain magnitude that can arouse the feeling of pity or even fear by incidents that occur throughout the play. In Antigone by Sophocles, tragedy is portrayed throughout the piece by the protagonist. Many grasp onto the assumption that Antigone is the tragic heroine. Although she contains many qualities that meet specific tragedy criteria, it is Creon who is the tragic hero. Due to Creon’s…

He goes on saying Christianity is, “a religion of pity and that through the use of this pity, suffering becomes contagious” (Nietzsche 130). By becoming contagious, he continues to explain that the suffering of one person then causes this contemporaries to suffer with that person. Even if no one has an immediate reason to suffer, Christianity institutionalizes the pity so that everyone is forced to suffer by guilt. Nietzsche sorts those compulsions of guilt…

the best example of a tragic hero because she has to many a very difficult decision, many feels pity for her, and she ends up dying, but in honor. Creon show some of these trail, but not as obvious and exclusive like Antigone does. Sophocles crafted two incredible heros in Antigone: however, Antigone stood out as the epitome of what it means to be a tragic hero by making the Chorus and audience display pity towards…

out in the wild only know about survival and preparing their young for the same things they faced. The little slim faces held so much curiosity but so much confusion of why their mother is so strict and ready to pounce on any wrong move. I could only pity the cubs and the infants, they are so different yet they live right next to each…

These disasters happen a lot so why all the sudden get upset over something that happens so often? We come together as humanity to help and fix it. There's no need to give pity to a town that put themselves there to have to live poorly and disastrously. Pitt's really emphasizes how the people of Haiti were affected by this terrible disaster. The people of Haiti were devastated. Pitts says, "Bad enough, Haiti is wretchedly…

New Zealand author Fleur Adcock’s Advice to a Discarded Lover is a poem that explores the bitter, revolting aftermath of what once was a relationship. As the title indicates, the narrator is speaking to a “discarded lover” of their negative feelings in regards to their past and what the lover should do. Throughout the poem, Adcock makes use of literary devices such as metaphor, imagery, personification and rhetorical question in a way that leaves the readers shocked by the end of reading it.…

their own humanity. Death is shown caring very much for humans and that is shown through the way he speaks of them. He describes humans as pitiful and colorful. He sees their need for power and for life, which they only can achieve through death. He pities them as they…

the second being, pity, and the third being disbelief on the cave peoples’ part. In the allegory, Socrates states “And when he remembered his old habitation, and the wisdom of the cave and his fellow-prisoners, do you not suppose that he would felicitate himself on the change, and pity them?” (Plato, The Allegory of the Cave) The person leaving the cave would only return with more knowledge that they would only congratulate themselves on. This pride just causes them to pity those who live in…

Richard III, like all people, has had many choices to make. Although some of those choices Richard made were bad, some people wouldn’t blame Richard for what he chose. They would argue that, because people, in Richard’s time, treated Richard like a monster, he later had his revenge. Though this could be a valid argument, Richard had a choice in everything he did. He could’ve chosen to forgive those people for their wrongful actions, but he instead chose to become the monster that they thought he…

The word hero comes from the Greek word meaning an individual that is faced with adversity. The Greek philosopher Aristotle, defines a hero as “a person who must evoke a sense of pity and fear in the audience”, a person that is confronted with adversity and faces downfalls. Some of the characteristics that depict a tragic hero in Aristoteles’ eyes are Hamartia, Hubris, Peripeteia, Anagnorisis, and Catharsis. The tragic hero of The Crucible is John Proctor. He is considered a tragic hero because…