Too Much Sense, Not Enough Sensibilty

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others to the level of her own reputation.” Despite the fact that she has been the object of ridicule in her own life, not only does she feel absolutely no sympathy for anyone else –– it’s made her even more bitter and more determined to bring everyone down to her level. Her mentality is that if she’s had to suffer? Everyone else should as well.

Smith’s views on sympathy views on sympathy suggest that one should feel more sympathy towards someone plight if they have experienced it themselves. “His agonies, when they are thus brought home to ourselves, when we have thus adopted them and made them our own, begin to take at last to affect us, and we then tremble and shudder at the thought of what he feels,” –– We’re naturally inclined to feel someone’s pain if we can relate. So why then does Lady Sneerwell feel no remorse for the events that she sets in motion? It seems to suggest that she is a character that lacks the moral compass that Smith states we’re all equipped ...

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