Pity

Bartleby has been living in the office. The character Bartleby remains a mystery throughout the entire work. His true identity is unknown; nothing is really known about him at all. Although the narrator does not really know Bartleby, he cannot help but pity him. The narrator shows the readers his emotions concerning Bartleby though his tone and diction. The narrator’s point of view is also important because he is unique in his thoughts about Bartleby. In Herman Melville’s short story, “Bartleby,…

questions raised about the human identity and it’s battle between the forces of good and evil that it so easily succumbs. Greek philosopher Aristotle defines tragedy as a dramatic manifestation of imitated actions that arouse the intimate emotions of pity and fear within its audience. One of the most famous tragedies to encompass this type of adverse saga is Sophocles’ Antigone, which is a playwright written in 441 BCE. It is a tale about repulsive thoughts and gruesome endings; it tells the…

little more than an animal due to his disease. He suffers attacks of pain that clear out rational thought, he is dependent on his bow for what little food he can gather, and his home is just a small cave. Because of this, all Philoctetes can do is pity himself. Neoptolemus, on the other hand, knows that Philoctetes is better than this. He is trying to lead Philoctetes to Troy so that together, they can act nobly and greatly in accordance with their natures and fulfil their destinies. Philoctetes…

The Dream of the Future (An analysis of A Rose for Emily and William Faulkner’s vision) William Faulkner most definitely may not be a household name, but he is an exquisite name and writer of short stories and in general, phenomenal fiction. Eventually, Faulkner went on to win the Nobel Prize for literature, but his beginnings are still rather intriguing. According to a biography of William Faulkner’s life titled William Faulkner published by Gale Research in Detroit in 1991, Faulkner has had…

Fatal Flaws in Macbeth The components of an effective tragedy often evoke pity, raise fear, and stir anger in the audience and in the characters themselves. Macbeth by William Shakespeare fits this criteria as these components illustrate that one should not let expectations cause someone to lose his or her sense of self, no matter how tempting those expectations may be. This lesson, which today is often modified to the phrase “don’t succumb to peer pressure,” is particularly understandable when…

of words engulfs the reader in an atmosphere where many characters experience suffering to the point of evoking pity from the reader’s sympathetic attitude or sense of superiority. Through both direct and indirect characterization, Dostoevsky intimately acquaints the reader with diverse characters who are likely very different from themselves. Nonetheless, not all characters are shown pity equally, as illustrated through the examples of Svidrigailov and Luzhin. Luzhin, through both indirect and…

tone in the essay suddenly changes. In Virginia Woolf's essay “the death of the moth”, Woolf feeling and thoughts toward the moth is shown by words that contribute to the tone. As Woolf stared at the moth as it fly around and have the “feeling of pity for him”. Not only did Woolf speak in a…

evil by the antagonists of the play: his wife Lady Macbeth, and the three Weird Sisters. “Macbeth” is a genuine example of a true Aristotelian Tragedy because it depicts downfall of a basically good person, demonstrates the natural human responses of pity and fear, and displays the hero’s demise must come as a result…

In the 1st circle of hell, the pilgrim come across famous poets and writers, these shades of condemned are in limbo, for they are not Christians nor follow the Christian as faith as they should per the Catholics believes of the writer. Hence, when the pilgrim sees this shades as the writer sees them, he feels more admiration and reverence for his feeling for those in limbo are of respect. Quote “And right before us on the lustrous green the mighty shades were pointed out to me (my heart felt…

this moral grey area. She ignites the action within the play by concocting and acting upon a plan to murder her husband and allow his brother to usurp the throne. However, Aristotle states that the two main emotions that a tragedy seeks to invoke are pity and fear, but Clytaemnestra appears to be a fully pitiable character. Furthermore, her death by the hands of her son seem to emphasize the pitiable state she is in, but she isn’t simply a character worthy of sympathy. Clytaemnestra’s death is…