Sympathy is a generous feeling, sometimes granted in the most surprising situations. Most commonly, sympathy is displayed towards those similar to us, either in one way or another. In The Tragedy of Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, Macbeth displays immoral and hideous behavior, yet still manages to evoke some feelings of sympathy and perhaps even congeniality rather than animosity from the readers. Perhaps it is because we travel along with him through his journey of rise and fall, perhaps it is
“Titus Andronicus”, by William Shakespeare, is the first tragedy Shakespeare has ever written. This play has proven to be very controversial and usually banned in many schools because of its’ gory scenes and “over the top” deaths. It is the ultimate revenge tragedy with no decent humor, forgiveness, or redemption. This play, however, does lay a fundamental basis of the characters for the characters Shakespeare writes later on. Tamora could be seen as the early Lady Macbeth, or Aaron as Iago in Othello
Robert Frost was an incredible poet and was well-known for using the allusions to reinforce the meaning that lay hidden in his poems. In Frost’s poem, “Out, Out-”, he alludes to a soliloquy from Macbeth, when he just receives news that his wife has died. This allusion is very significant because it implements a strong sense emotion and reinforces the themes that are present in the poem: the loss of innocence and absurdism. The loss of innocence is a central theme in the poem “Out, Out-” and