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Gender Portrayals in Homer's 'The Iliad' and Sophocles' Antigone

of Helen of Troy in marriage if she wins. This starts the war. In this we see that the war is being fought over a woman, Helen, c...

Homer's 'The Iliad' and Achilles' Shield

of mortal men exceeding fair" (18.490). The image of "two cities" mirrors the basic plot of the Iliad, which is a ten-year-long ...

Leadership Abilities and Inabilities in Homer's Achilles

fatal wrath that consumes Achilles is responsible for pushing him to the edge of sanity, for his very existence hinges upon the le...

Homer's 'The Iliad' and Free Will

the conflict in terms of an insult to his personal honor. Homer writes that Achilles responded by telling Agamemnon, "Ah me, cloth...

Greek Values in Homer's 'The Iliad'

withdraws from the battlefield, refusing to fight. This quarrel typifies how the Greeks valued personal honor above all other cons...

Virgil's 'Aeneid,' Sophocles' Oedipus the King, Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Divine Intervention

of his father Ulysses" (Homer I). From this excerpt it is quite obvious that divine intervention is a powerful part of the stor...

Reflections on Homer’s Odyssey

he rolls a huge boulder across the opening to the cave. Polyphemus eats two of Odysseuss men and it is clear that he plans to make...

Homer's Iliad, A Political Perspective

This paper discusses the argument between Achilles and Agamemnon from a political perspective. Three pages in length, two sources ...

Homer's Iliad, Questions

This essay answers three question. The first pertains to the arguments presented to Achilles on why he should fight, the second li...

Epic Hero Status of Odysseus in Homer’s “The Odyssey”

was time to allow Odysseus to return home. Should he be allowed to go back to Ithaka to be reunited with his wife Penelope and hi...

Beowulf & Odysseus/Ancient Heroes

peers by acclamation rather than divine right. The thane is spoke of as a "giver of treasure in gladness" (Beowulf 46). In other w...

Beowulf v. Odysseus/Who is the most attractive?

announces to all listeners that this warrior has the skill to battle the monster that has terrorizing Heorot. Beowulf battles Gren...

Holden Caulfield on Being a Phony in J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye

This paper examines how protagonist defines being a phony in J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye in five pages. One source is cite...

Henry James' Daisy Miller and J.D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield as Social Outcasts

In seven pages this paper examines how social outcasts can take different forms in a comparative analysis of Daisy Miller and Catc...

Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days Compared

In five pages the heroes in these classic works are contrasted and compared. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Shifting Media Formats Comparing News on the Web by Comparing Five Web Sites

these sites are similar. For the purposes of this paper five such sites were visited with the intent of comparing and contrasting...

Comparative Analysis of the Vietnamese and U.S. Declarations of Independence

In one page these 2 countries respective independence declarations are contrasted and compared....

US Constitution and the English Magna Carta

In five pages these 2 documents are compared. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Francois Boucher's The Toilet of Venus and Edgar Degas' Nude Woman Having Her Hair Combed Paintings Comparison

Quite frankly, both Venus and the nameless woman seem equally as fair, yet because of her godly status, Venus is entitled to so mu...

Comparative Artistic Analysis of 'Entombment' and 'Venus of Urbino'

hues. Jacopo Pontormos "Entombment" echoed the stylistic principles of early Mannerism. A strong shift from the direction ...

Source Comparisons on the Subject of Malcolm X

In eight pages this paper compares Malcolm X's autobiography with William Strickland's Malcolm X Make It Plain in terms of simila...

American Experience and Change in Irving, Calisher, and Hawthorne

In four pages the acceptance of change among individuals are compared in the characterizations of Calisher's Greenwitch, Hawthorne...

Characters of Helen and Annie in Ironweed by William Kennedy

This paper contrasts and compares these female characters and their life experiences described by William Kennedy in Ironweed in t...

James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues,' Joyce Carol Oates' 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' and Maturity

In three pages this paper contrasts and compares how the maturity theme is featured in each of these stories....

The Female Quixote by Charlotte Lennox and Cecilia by Frances Burney

In four pages this paper compares how inheritance is thematically depicted in each of these works....

Comparing 2 Short Stories by Franz Kafka

In nine pages Kafka's 1913 short story 'The Judgment' is compared with his classic 1915 work 'The Metamorphosis.'...

William Shakespeare's King Lear and Dante's 'Inferno' Compared

leaves Cordelia dowerless. As luck or providence would have it, through a twist of fate, Cordelia became the queen of France. Go...

King Oedipus, Prince Hamlet, and Their Tragic Flaws

In five pages the tragic flaws of these play protagonists are contrasted and compared....

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare and its 2 Couples

In five pages Benedick and Beatrice and Claudio and Hero are contrasted and compared in this analysis of William Shakespeare's Muc...