Sympathy a sharing of another's feelings or tendency to share in an emotion, sensation, or condition. At the end of the film, it is Anna Schmidt whom we ultimately sympathise with the most. Mrs. Wright, fellow classmates, I disagree with this statement and I believe that at the end of the film, The Third Man, it is Holly Martins whom we ultimately sympathise with the most.
As much as Anna Schmidt may present a face of innocence, I do believe that she is not the one whom we ultimately should sympathise with. For her there is no world outside Harry Lime, her devotion to him is unbending, even to the point of self-sacrifice, regardless of knowing the unlawful, wicked and criminal intentions of Harry Lime. She is a completely passive character and her kind of innocence is not to be sympathized with, it is shown to be a weakness. Anna says of Harry: "He made everything seem - fun". This is not something to be sympathetic about; I feel that she is a shallow character.
Holly Martins, a penniless novelist of Westerns has come to Vienna because his best friend, Harry Lime has supposedly kindly offered him a job. He then discovers that his best friend has recently died in a car accident. This is something to definitely sympathise with Holly was excited to be getting into a new job and earning money, coming to Post-War Vienna without really knowing anyone and losing his best friend in the process. Holly is confused and this is to also be sympathised with as it was shown in the scene with him and Major Calloway, when Calloway said about Harry "HE was about the worst racketeer who ever made a dirty living in this city. Sit down, have another drink". .
Holly says to Anna one day "For twenty years - I knew him - the drinks he lied, the girls he liked. We laughed at the same things. He couldn't bear the colour green. But it wasn't true. He never existed, we dreamed him. Was he laughing at fools like us all the time?".
As we evaluate Tolstoy's full presentation of Anna in the novel, we become more cognizant of her blemishes. ... Being forced into marriage can we say that Anna ever experienced true love? ... Even though what Anna did was wrong, should we blame her? If we step into Anna's shoes, we as readers have no choice but to sympathize for Anna. ... She was forced to marry someone whom she did not love. ...
Yet as the crisis ends, and everything returns to normality, Anna, Vronsky and Karenin return to their old ways to live in that world of delusion. ... In the end as Anna traces the career which drives her to suicide in her long soliloquy, she discovers that her love had turned to hate, that her life has become a "stupid delusion" and death provides the only alternative. ... We need to look to the past to protect the future, and yet we tend to forget that. ... Yet if we live as naturally as possible, we can get a better grasp on the true essence of life as Levin does in the novel...
In this text we are given facts about drugs as well as the story of Anna's life and what caused the early end to it. ... Donaghy has selectively put in mainly good things about Anna, but if we read closely we see that she was not like the picture that is painted of her. ... Would the fall never come to an end?" ... This is probably not what Anna's life was like, or it wasn't from what we are told in the story, but it is for some other people addicted to drugs. " for it might end you know in my going out all together, like a candle." ... She did end her own life by taking drugs ...
Anna's Story Why do we have to read a story about a dead girl? ... The audience knew all about Anna Wood's character. ... Anna Wood was no angel. ... Yes, Anna was stupid for taking those drugs. ... "When Anna and I started smoking, we thought we were really good". ...
Vronsky's mother, who has just finished traveling with Anna on the train, explains to her son how pleasant it was for her to ride with Anna. ... After Vronsky and Anna first start their relationship a change is evident in Anna's character. ... Anna soon realizes that she made a mistake in marrying her husband. ... Anna feels that she can no longer trust Vronsky. This ultimately causes Anna to commit suicide. ...
ANNA"S STORY- ESSAY Task: "Biographies may be constructed to do more than tell a story of a person's life" Discuss how your reading of Anna's Story shows that it has been constructed to achieve a particular purpose. ... The prologue also written by Donaghy paints a scene of an end of primary school celebration, where children are changing and turning into teenagers, "growing up making choices". ... The scene is then revisited at the end at the end of the text in the epilogue to make the reader take from the text that it deals with all children and not just Anna. ... When...
Vronsky is at first trying to seek intimacy with Kitty but when his eyes come upon the beautiful Anna, his direction of affection shifts in Anna's favor. Anna Karenina is another person that is evidently charmed by Vronsky. ... Vronsky at one time takes action to impress Anna giving 200 rubles to the deceased's widow in order to impress Anna. Oblonsky points out to Anna and Anna's mother that Vronsky is a great guy and this helps Vronsky's intent to charm Anna and make an impression. " Very kind, really very kind!" ... Vronsky also try's changing his lifestyle in ord...
In the character of Anna, Tolstoy creates a woman who is perhaps most unhappily destined for tragedy. ... Anna could not get a divorce and have the right of having custody of her son at the same time. ... They were having arguments due to Anna"s strong feelings of jealousy. ... Extremely depressed, Anna lost contact with reality and committed suicide. Putting and end to her torments and punishing him for not loving her anymore....
The film Notting Hill is a surprisingly excellent picture. In this film Anna Scott (Julia Roberts) a very successful film star meets and falls in love with William Thacker (Hugh Grant) ,a travel book store owner from Notting Hill London. ... It becomes apparent in the film that Anna's true personality, while complex, is more closely associated with the girl next door than the prominent actress that the public usually got to see. ... In her close up shots we see a genuinely warm balance when she is happy. ... In the film, especially when she is in public Anna is constantly putting o...
