Pity

critics to poetry, and Pope describes this in his essay, An Essay on Criticism. After reading the Tragedy and the Emotions of Pity and Fear and An Essay on Criticism, it is easily discernable what important roles poetry has on the community and how different people perceive and use poetry for their own means. It is clear from reading both Tragedy and the Emotions of Pity and Fear and An Essay on Criticism that the purpose of poetry has no one certainty. In the words of the late President John F…

The Poor Danish Prince An Observation of the Hamlet Character Deserving of the Most Pity Shakespeare’s Hamlet is one of the most tragic stories in history. It’s a play where in the end, everyone is dead. There are many things that go wrong for many people in this play. But which character is deserving of the most pity? Tragedy befalls every character. Guilt plagues the minds of the majority. But nonetheless, there is one character who’s certain exploits draw sympathy from everyone who reads the…

experienced loss when their mother passed away, and Anna Modestovna from “What a Pity” experienced a similar loss when her father was sent away and imprisoned. Following the loss of the parents, their characters in each story exhibited a fear about something. In both “The Father” by Dobychin and “What a Pity” by Solzhenitsyn the characters’ loss of their parents created a sense of fear within them. In “What a Pity”, the narrator remarks, “Anna Modestovna knew people like this and she was…

friend's job losses and the inability to hold down a job was the direct result of self-pity, a device to be seen as a victim in an attempt to garner another’s attention and sympathy. In actuality, this is a fallacious example of cause and effect (self-pity > victim role.) People usually fall into the victim role as a roundabout way of absolution from responsibility and blame not as a direct result of self-pity. In contrast, the author uses an example of an acquaintance whose childhood was…

In William Shakespeare’s play Othello, it is debatable if Othello truly deserves pity or not. Othello executes some horrible tasks, such as murdering his own wife. However, he only acts this way because he is completely manipulated by Iago. In my opinion, William Shakespeare is successful in stirring pity for Othello. Othello experiences several traumatic, and avoidable events which leads to a strong sense of pity. To start, Othello is convinced by Iago that his beloved wife, Desdemona has…

Tragedy is meant to invoke many emotions within its audience, particularly of the negative variety, and Oedipus the King is no different. An audience watching this Greek play may, in fact, experience both pity and fear at the same time. Firstly, the audience pities the character of Oedipus because he is a character an audience can easily relate to thrust into terrible circumstances. Oedipus has flaws just like any other human being, such as arrogance and paranoia, but he is all around a decent…

countries such as Germany were able to advance on its own and surprise Britain as it would be considered a legitimate opponent. This perspective of pre-war Britain is brought into the light in Arthur Marwick's "The Deluge" and Niall Ferguson's, "The Pity of War". Although both authors do come to similar conclusions that World War One was inevitable, Marwick focuses on why British citizens wanted to go to war and how they achieved this feat. In contrast, Ferguson argues that Britain was more so…

Chapter two of No Pity, written by Joseph P. Shapiro, focused on the Edward Roberts, a pioneering leader of the disability rights movements. The chapter starts with a look into Roberts’ life and how he struggled to find normalcy after becoming disabled. At the young age of fourteen Roberts fell ill with Polio and his life changed in a dramatic way. He went from being a star on his high school football team to being paralyzed from the neck down, unable to breath on his own. Because he was unable…

In The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare, Shylock creates a sense of self pity, gives in to his greed and blinds himself with revenge, which ultimately leads to his downfall at the end of the play. Shylock, the antagonists of the play, is a Jewish man living in Venice who makes a living by giving out loans, with interest, to people in need. He begins the story, though not happy, at his most content state and as his story continues and he continues to make decisions based on his defining…

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 compassion throughout the book, and deserve no sympathy due to the sole fact of their own depravity. Victor was so…