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When a friend is going through a difficult time and is feeling badly, you might sympathize with your friend. This means that you in some way share the grief with your friend, or express feelings of sorrow that your friend is in pain. In another context it can also mean that you are in agreement, fully or partially, with someone's position. In this context it can have little or nothing to do with feelings. For example, you may be having a discussion about politics and someone expresses some factual evidence supporting his/her position. Even though you might come to a completely different conclusion, you might say that you sympathize with that person regarding the factual evidence. Using the word this way, it can even have a bit of a cynical flavor, depending on your delivery.

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What character do you sympathize with most by the end of act IV in Julius Caesar?

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With whom do you sympathize in act IV Brutus Cassius or neither Why?

In Act IV of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," I sympathize more with Brutus. His internal struggle and moral dilemma about the consequences of their actions highlight his honorable intentions and commitment to Rome's welfare. Despite his conflict with Cassius and the growing tension among the conspirators, Brutus remains steadfast in his ideals, which evokes a sense of empathy for his plight. Cassius, on the other hand, is more self-interested, making it harder to fully sympathize with him.


Because of what can readers sympathize with Antigone?

Readers can sympathize with Antigone because of her compassion. Antigone doesn't see the ties of blood, love, and respect as ending with life. She asserts that she has no chance of having another brother, because both her parents are dead.Antigone also considers that she will spend much more time dead than alive. So she must think of how she treats death and the dead. She feels the additional responsibility of being the great great great granddaughter of Cad mus, who founded the city of Thebes in about 2000 B.C.E.; and the great great great great great granddaughter of Poseidon, the sea god.With such an ancestry, it isn't surprising that she wants to be in compliance with the enduring legacy of the gods, and the equally enduring traditions of Thebes' founder.


What style of writing is used in 'Antigone'?

A style of writing is a distinctive manner of expression. Poetry is a manner of expression that's calculated to produce vivid imagery in the mind and to create an emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm. The writing style in the play 'Antigone' is poetic. That poetic style of writing definitely is used to call forth vivid mental images and to get readers and viewers to sympathize with the main character, Antigone.


How does the chorus first characterize Antigone's punishment in 'Antigone'?

That her behavior leaves Creon no choice is the way in which the chorus first characterizes Antigone's punishment in "Antigone" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, the chorus does not sympathize with Theban Princess Antigone. The members insist that she is every bit as proud, stubborn, uncompromising, uncontrolled and unlucky as her father, disgraced Theban King Oedipus. They make no mention about her courage and a lot of mention about her perceived character flaws.