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monstrous creature Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon - it considers the impact of social obligations (loyalty to God and co...
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...
Odysseus,/raider of cities gouged out your eye" (Homer 227). As Polyphemus is the son of Poseidon, Odysseus makes a powerful god h...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at heroism. Odysseus is put forth as an example of both modern and classical ideals of ...
is killed (Virgil, 2009). Paschalis has done a study of some of the semantics in the poem, and suggests that the name "Galaesus"...
to go home. This particular point in the story is approximately halfway through such dangers and journeys and as such it is halfwa...
sees the development of his character because this is the focus of the story and his journey. One reads as Odysseus moves through ...
and the goddess shows this with her actions throughout the narrative. Therefore, examination of the Odyssey demonstrates that the ...
reacts to the presence of the men by eating two of them, Odysseus attacks and manages to blind Polyphemus by stabbing him in his e...
lay there / lifted up his muzzle, pricked his ears..." (17.317-318). We read that the dog is lying on a dung heap; hes full of tic...
story of Odysseus sets him up as a noble man, regardless of what someone may know about Greek codes of conduct. He was a noble man...
he was gone he come back and put his head in again, and told me to mind about that school, because he was going to lay for me and ...
In five pages this paper examines how the concept of hero is defined and how both Dante in The Inferno and Sir Gawain in Sir Gawai...
This paper exposes Italian explorer Christopher Columbus as a villain in six pages. Nine sources are cited in the bibliography....
In seven pages the classical Greek definition of hero as revealed in the epic poems of Homer is discussed....
In 7 pages this paper applies Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell to the novel Prisoner of Azkaban in an analysis of how...
assumptions came to predominate Western cultural thought (Olson 18). Prior to this era, during the medieval period, the proper a...
In five pages this paper compares the heroes Hector and Achilles as presented in Homer's epic in an evaluation of whose heroism wa...
In four pages this historical Native American hero is discussed as he is portrayed in [The] Taos Indians and the Battle for Blue L...
In five pages the struggles of these villagers and their French Protestant minister as chronicled in Lest Innocent Blood be Shed b...
In five pages this research paper discusses Peter Tchaikovsky's life, music, and the influence exerted by his homosexuality. Four...
In eleven pages this paper critically analyzes Tchaikovsky through Marxism, feminism, and Freudian perspectives to support the arg...
In three pages this paper examines the American values represented by the protagonist of James Fenimore Cooper's novel. Two sourc...
In six pages this paper argues that Satan is heroically depicted in 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton. There are no other sources li...
a rather powerful enemy. Thus, one sees heroic feats on either end, but also, there is Christian love and the love of a parent tha...
which features the exploits of a heroic protagonist, is used. Although it was Homer who popularized this literary form with his p...
Philosophy "Hero" as used by Campbell (1990) is androgynous, and he underscores this fact by using the pronouns "he" and "s...
In five pages the heroism of the old sailor Santiago is examined within the context of Hemingway's short novel. Seven sources are...
the consuls, raised and met, / Are at the Dukes already. You have been hotly calld for, / When, being not at your lodging to be fo...
In five pages this paper discusses the societal and immortality quests of epic heroes in Gilgamesh and Homer's 'The Odyssey' in a ...