Essays 151 - 180
In six pages this paper analyzes the epic Beowulf in terms of its interpretation of the heroic code both in characters and in deed...
The writer considers how we might learn about Beowulf's society by considering what sort of society might have developed if it had...
Goldsmith, who sees Beowulf as being addressed to the "powerful" and designed to "warn them of the dangers attendant upon power" (...
Forrest gave us a clear view of the concepts of loyalty and honesty between friends regardless of the turns of circumstance or the...
An eight page research paper considering the literary concept of the hero's journey in this classic science fiction film by direct...
In three pages this paper discusses an epic in terms of characteristics and how thee are expressed in literature and on film in a ...
In five pages this paper analyzes the characterization as Satan in the epic poem Paradise Lost as a reflection of the righteous co...
on Mount Olympus, where the gods lived. As the Iliad opens, the Trojan War has actually been going on for nine years, but the figh...
In eight pages this paper discusses the epic's glorification of violence in an analysis that also considers gender roles, human na...
In four pages the classic Medieval poem is analyzed. There is no bibliography included....
The writer of this paper first gives an overview of the poem Beowulf, which was written in Old English, and then relates it to con...
The writer compares and contrasts the Old English poem Beowulf with Sundiata, which is an African epic. The writer argues that whi...
The writer compares and contrasts Achilles, a hero from Greek mythology, with Beowulf, the hero of the Old English epic poem. The ...
In five pages this essay examines what is revealed about ancient Greek history in Homer's poetic epics 'The Iliad' and 'The Odysse...
the first place, and what do his "fond regrets" concern? He does not tell us, but merely goes on describing his walk with...
ball turret was a plexiglass sphere set into the belly of a B-17 or B-24 [bomber], and inhabited by two .50 caliber machine-guns a...
says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...
To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was ...
1). With the passage of time, epics evolved into what is commonly referred to as chansons de geste or romances. French in origin...
farmer/is first selectman in our village;/shes in her dotage" (lines 4-6). As these lines indicate, the poem is in free verse. B...
2, 1714 (Whittaker 146). After examining the scriptural reading for this Sunday lesson, the first question that comes to mind is w...
This essay discusses Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz," and Robert Hayden's poem "Those Winter Sundays." Both poems pertain to...
The complete collection of the tales has a General Prologue which outlines his encounters with the pilgrims who tell the tales and...
just beginning his journey, understanding that is a necessity and that it holds danger: "MIDWAY upon the journey of our life I fou...
In six pages 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and 'The Knight's Tale' are discussed in order to examine how the themes of destiny and cho...
In a paper consisting of twelve pages the presence of evil particularly in terms of the anti Semitism of 'The Pardoner's Tale' and...
In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares the marriage perspectives of Mary Astell and Margery Kempe and discusses how society ...
In five pages this report examines how family dynamics were portrayed in epic literature in a consideration of Sappho's poetry, Ar...
In five pages the African epics Kemet, Afrocentricity, and Knowledge by Molefi Kete Asante and Sundiata An Epic of Old Mali by D....
of self-centeredness. The problem is simple: Mankind has completely lost his reverence that once existed toward one another, an e...