Date of Award
6-1928
Degree Type
Bachelors Essay
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Department
Literatures, Languages, and Cultures
First Advisor
James J. Doyle
Abstract
The pity which certain tragic characters inspire in the breasts of the audience has its source not only in the situations in which the poet places them, and in the sentiments which they express; often it results also from their sex and from their age. A woman who is the victim of cruel circumstance or who has fallen prey to some moral frailty will. arouse far more pity on the stage than would a man in a similar condition; and this is true simply because she is a woman. A child which is threatened by some great danger or is being menaced by some tragic catastrophe stirs the heart to more pro.found depths because when we view thus the misfortunes or death of a child, we most naturally are distressed at the sight of so undeserved a wrong. Whether the presentation or the unfortunate child be made by narrative or by drama makes no difference. The child is there; the unmerited wrong is there; and so the necessarily accompanying pity and love and sympathy likewise are there.
Recommended Citation
Lukes, Francis Joseph, "The Relative Insignificance of the Child in Roman Literature as Compared with Greek" (1928). Bachelors’ Theses. 1585.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/bachelor_essays/1585
Comments
A Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts, College of Liberal Arts, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin