ABSTRACT
Among literary genres, compassion is in tragedies where authors best express ethical tension. Practices of compassion precede the conceptualization of the suffering of those around people, as strange for the theory as it is immediate for the action. Compassion is the virtue that characterizes a disappointment humans learn from, i.e. disappointment that tempers the powerlessness resulting from experiencing failure. If compassion were used to regulate one's own bad conscious or as a subtle instrument of humiliation, Charles Baudelaire would be correct in recommending them to systematically fight panhandlers to provoke the fury within them. This would help them to return their lost dignity. Compassion is the ethical recovery from the failed attempt to completely eradicate evil. Thus, it conflicts with the transforming enthusiasm that knows no bounds, and also, with a sort of compassion reduced to a melodramatic, sensible immediacy without vigor.
