Pity

boyhood tomfoolery to challenge the principles of adulthood. A great use of pathos’ ability to subject the viewer to pity is demonstrated in the quote, “He had meant the best in the world, and been treated like a dog, like a very dog.” This movie quote evokes pity for Tom and the way he is treated. Similarly, Aristotle discusses pity as a notable pathos expressing, “In order to feel pity we must also believe in the goodness of at least some people” (Aristotle 65). This quote can reveal how…

Gabler” Hendrik Ibsen portrays the main character, Hedda, as both a sympathetic and an unsympathetic character. She is able to arouse both pity and dislike from the audience. Ibsen is able to do this because he gives her a despicable and manipulative personality, but at the same time he creates a feeling of understanding and empathy for her. The audience pities her because of her shortcomings and her situation. Because of this two sided personality she is a wonderfully complicated character and…

Augustine focuses on the feeling of pity he talks about how we dislike going through trials and suffering but we love being moved to tears by a performance or a book. He views this as an evil and sinful action. He condemns these productions and the whole affair of crying over someone elses…

of J.Alfred Prufrock” are very similar in the sense that all three have the character who take wrongful actions which eventually lead to life ending consequences, triggering feelings of pity from the audience. Body Paragraph 1 Watching or reading any of these plays incites pity towards some characters. This pity develops as the audience gets a better understanding of the character as he/she further develops. This helps the viewers recognize the difficulties a character is going through,…

Audiences are manipulated to accept information when producers use fear to influence their decisions and pity to make people feel sorrow towards the subject of matter. In addition, audiences are manipulated when they can relate to the subject matter being presented to them. Fear tactics are crucial for the audiences to accept information from the media. An example of fear tactic that the producer uses in this ad is when the soccer player’s car loses a part of its tire causing the audiences feel…

and films as well. The identification with the protagonist is crucial as it forms almost a bond between that character and the spectator. Not only that, but catharsis also plays a huge part in a good film as well. When the audience member feels pity and fear it takes that person to a place where they put themselves in the character’s shoes, so to speak. They ask themselves what they would do if they were in that situation. Finally, without music, the work would be much less interesting.…

killed them out of anger. Dante then feinted because he was so overcome by emotion and pity. The two just happened to fall in love and the only thing separating them was a loveless marriage. The fact they could not control their love was their undoing. This touches Dante the Pilgrim and he feels sympathy for them just like he did for Queen Dido. The Pilgrim again shows weakness for love and romance by showing pity for the two souls. For many, this would be an exception and the punishment would…

The characterization of McTeague demonstrates the narrator's sense of pity towards McTeague throughout the passage is shown through the use of detail, diction, and shifts in syntax, contrasting his pity of McTeague with McTeague's sense of optimism in which the narrator almost shows a sense of superiority over McTeague. The narrator’s use of diction proceeds to show the narrator’s pity tone toward McTeague. In the passage, the author characterizes McTeague as “stupid, docile, obedient” (line…

the Greek tragedy consumes its audiences with fear and pity to build a heightened sense of tension that ultimately climaxes with a grand catharsis. The use of dramatic irony, a literary technique in Greek tragedy by which the full significance of a character’s words or actions are clear to the audience but unknown to the character, creates a deep sense of fear and pity for the unconscionable acts of Oedipus and Jocasta. This fear and pity is alleviated through the catharsis of death and…

feelings before his time runs out. However, when he finally does state how he feels Barbara Allan moves slow and does not have any pity for him. The poet’s abundant use anxious diction allows the audience to see how much of a hurry the man was in to tell his feelings. The writers use of repition through diction also lets us know that Barbara Allans lack of interest/pity in the dying man.…