The greatness of Lady Murasaki's achievement consists in her ability to portray characters with a profound sense of mono no aware in her writing, such that the reader is able to empathize with them in this feeling.
If the audience is able to empathize with a villain then we are effectively able to empirically show that audience that there is a thin line between good and evil and that each day is a struggle to maintain ones' humanity in the face of darkness.
The viewer, however, is able to empathize with Carol, which is how she lures us into her web in the first place.
Pop's willfulness is finally accepted by Woody and he is able to empathize with him, after years of discord that reached its peak when Pop stole a silver dish from a Scandinavian evangelical, leading to a violent fistfight.
"What raises the android Roy Batty to human status in Blade Runner," writes Norman Spinard in Science Fiction in the Real World, "is that, on the brink of his own death, he is able to empathize with Deckard.
