Essays 271 - 300
This paper examines how the Bildungsroman or coming of age technique is employed by William Faulkner in the portrayal of his 11 ye...
In a paper consisting of four pages the ways in which Willy Loman and his struggles represent the definitive tragic hero are explo...
In six pages this paper examines the depiction of heroes in the short stories 'Hills Like White Elephants,' 'Soldier's Home,' and ...
In three pages this persuasive and personal essay examines the reasons why this protagonist qualifies as a hero. There is no bibl...
In 4 pages, this paper argues that the main character Bardamu is representative of an anti-hero as well as an autobiographical por...
The Epic of Gilgamesh, composed about 2000 BC and found inscribed on 12 tablets at Nineveh, is the earliest known epic. The Epic...
This essay consists of six pages and in a comparative heroic analysis of Gilgamesh and Odysseus presents the arguments that despit...
Gawain is presented with similar atrocities and the same type of need for retribution, though his choice of actions and his determ...
In eight pages this paper examines the code hero of Ernest Hemingway in the characterizations of Robert Jordan and Frederic Henry....
The writer compares and contrasts the Old English poem Beowulf with Sundiata, which is an African epic. The writer argues that whi...
In seven pages these two works are contrasted and compared regarded the differing perspectives on heroes, rebellion, and war each ...
In four pages this paper discusses the achievements of Second World War hero, Swedish diplomat Raul Wallenberg. Five sources are ...
This 6 page paper argues that Milkman Dead, a character in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, can be described as a classic hero. Th...
In six pages the sensitive heroes Stephen Daedalus in Joyce's Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man and Marlow in Conrad's Heart of...
This essay consisting of four pages considers how the protagonist satisfies the tragic hero criteria as defined by Aristotle offer...
In five pages this character analysis of John Proctor and whether or not he was portrayed as a tragic hero in Arthur Miller's 1996...
In six pages this paper examines the transformation of the epic hero in ancient Greek literary works such as Euripides' Medea, Sop...
Both of the primary mail characters are fundamentally powerless, as are the narrators of the stories. Ironically, a great deal of...
troops and frontier riflemen under Jackson had inflicted "appalling casualties on the British line," killing or wounding over two ...
In this paper of six pages a broad comparison of thes classic heroes considers how they would fare in the contemporary world. The...
In 7 pages the hero mythology is applied to the society of the United States in a consideration of 3 concepts from The Power of My...
the weak and defender of his territory and do whatever he must in the name of survival. A ravenous Odysseus is described by Homer...
In 5 pages these 20th century writers and thinkers are examined regarding their interpretations of identity and life's meaning in ...
In a paper consisting of five pages an assessment regarding Okonkwo's responsibility for his own tragedy is discussed through an e...
In five pages this paper considers the autobiography of a disabled veteran of the Vietnam War and son of a Second World War hero i...
In this paper of five pages two classical heroes are contrasted in terms of the older and noble Odysseus and the young and volatil...
man who seeks respectability in a white mans society. Despite his many military victories and his marriage to Senator Brabantios ...
In six pages analytical, psychodynamic, and personality paradigms are applied to former professional athlete Brian Bosworth as dep...
In this paper consisting of nine pages the ways in which concepts of morality contributed to the deaths of these tragic heroes is ...
In 8 pages this paper examines the concept of the tragic hero in a comparison of King Lear by William Shakespeare and Sophocles' O...