characters face a struggle. The play Romeo and Juliet is written by William Shakespeare. This is about two teenagers that fall in love and die. The tragic hero Romeo has the flaws born a noble birth, suffers more than he deserves, and downfall arouses pity or fear. The first characteristic of Romeo is that he was born a noble birth. “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” (84) This is when Juliet asks why Romeo has to be Romeo. This is important to the work as a whole because this leads…
with the importance of self pity. “I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry for themselves...And if Morrie could do it, with such a horrible disease. . .” Albom questions the irony behind his professor’s words. How can someone so overcome with a horrible illness put a limit on self-pity? Morrie’s words cause the audience to stop and truly focus upon the limitations behind feeling sorry for yourself, although a small dose of pity is required; an…
The “Phantom of the Opera” expresses that pity and fear can change the way a character acts or feels about another. The pity of the movie shows more about the love because Christine was in love with the Phantom because of his troublesome past. The fear part is to show that people feared the Phantom and he would kill people or threaten to do so. Some events that were expressed by fear or pity are when Madam Giry saved the Phantom from his beating as a childhood; another is Raoul having the fear…
Why do people hate when others feel sorry for them? We as humans have created this idea that if someone pities us, we are less of a person than they are. This is what leads people to keep the things they are ashamed of about themselves a secret. In the short story “Shame”, Dick Gregory tells a story about being pitied by his classmates and his teacher when he was younger. He was embarrassed for something that he could not control and it affected him for most of his life. Gregory did his best to…
Contempt & Pity “What’s Your Name, Girl”, is a short story written by Maya Angelou. The story tells the experience of an African American woman who works in a white woman’s house. The character has a hard time being respected and breaks through some obstacles to make everyone realize she is as human as they are. In this essay, the overall tones are contempt and pity. Contempt is feeling beneath consideration or worthless. This is the tone because Marguerite feels disrespected throughout this…
Aristotle, a Greek philosopher has defined tragedy as “through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation”. Using a play by Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy that can express the defined oikeia hedone, meaning the “proper pleasure” in Greek by Aristotle’s Poetics, which achieves the proper purgation or in other words, catharsis as its final cause. Tragedy can be defined as an event of great suffering, however Aristotle also mentioned that “a real tragedy was all encompassing, larger…
explains that tragedy stirs two emotions, pity and terror. These emotions are shown through the words and actions of the actors in the play. When writing a tragedy play the author puts elements of both in his/her play. When I read Oedipus the King I personally see both emotion and tragedy. What one person might see as terror another reader could interpret as pity. Different experiences can change your perspective on someone else's tragedy. The definition of pity is, the feeling of sorrow and…
one’s social status, amount of wealth they have and the love they give. Myrtle dies as a poor girl having been exploited by Tom, and Gatsby dies a rich man with a dead dream, and thus both should be pitied. Daisy, on the other hand, is not worthy of pity because she knows the insanity of her high-class world but continues to live in it. Myrtle dies as a poor girl…
narrator’s voice to create just enough suspense and horror. The grandmother’s point of view is essential to the story. If O’Connor had used any other character, the end effect would not have been as strong. The grandmother lends a feeling of almost pity to the story. At first, the reader might feel sorry for the grandmother, since she must live with her rude son and two brats. However, as one keeps reading, it is obvious why everyone is rude to her. The grandmother thinks that because she is…
moments that mean a lot to the poet and this is reciprocated in Real Love. While reading Fourth or Fifth Love I felt lighthearted and reminiscent. I felt that Real Love fit the poem well because of its carefree and resonate lyrics and melody. I chose Pity Party by Melanie Martinez due to its comparable lyrics and mood. Macaroni Love articulates on the downfall of a relationship and the spite towards her…