Essays on Sympathy

Set during the sixties and using the Troubles in Northern Ireland as a suitably depressing backdrop, “Cal” by Bernard MacLaverty is the tale of a tragic love affair and the hopelessness of life during the Troubles. Cal’s struggle for normality within the chaos which was life in Northern Ireland, has enabled MacLaverty to create a…

To a certain extent, I partially sympathies with Blanche DuBois. This disintegrated character goes through many painful experiences, some being the suicide of her young husband Alan Grey, her loneliness throughout the play, and when her only family member betrays her for desire. On the other hand, Blanche loses my sympathy at some events due…

Abstract Zane Grey remains one of the most prominent representatives of the so-called Western style of writing. His books readily reflect the realities of the American West, avoiding idealization and excessive romanticism. His most famous Riders of the Purple Sage has created and established the true formula of Western literary opposition, where the unique combination…

Empathy is the ability to re-create another person’s perspective, or trying to get a sense of that person with that problem and with those emotions. While empathy and sympathy are two closely related concepts, I believe that the slight difference between them can be found in the idea of “identification”. For, while sympathy says, “I…

Leonard Pitts at it again in his article” Manti Te’o story offers lessons: Better connected who have one online, farther apart” In this article Pitts asserts that although the increase in technology is a good thing it increasingly puts a void in the physical communications we have with one another, a more prevalent case being…