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In 8 pages this paper examines the concept of the tragic hero in a comparison of King Lear by William Shakespeare and Sophocles' O...
Lear," Lear chooses the love and respect of his children as the highest good, and so can only suffer from loss of their love and r...
Two characters from each of Homer's epics are compared in five pages in order to ascertain which is the most heroic of the charact...
In five pages this paper considers Odysseus' heroic tale as described in Homer's poetic epic 'The Odyssey.' There are no other so...
was also a master of trickery. Odysseus would often hesitate before taking action. This was not out of cowardice. It was his way...
In 5 pages these 20th century writers and thinkers are examined regarding their interpretations of identity and life's meaning in ...
In 5 pages this paper examines themes of quest and identity as they are represented in Homer's epic and how they enable Odysseus a...
In 5 pages this paper presents a character analysis of Grendel as featured in the epic 'Beowulf' and how he is intended to be repr...
In five pages the difficult decisions Aeneas had to make in Vergil's epic 'Aeneid' are explored. There are 3 sources cited in th...
In four pages the conformity or nonconformity of Coleridge's prose in this poem is compared with the sonnet's and epic poem's trad...
In this paper consisting of nine pages the ways in which concepts of morality contributed to the deaths of these tragic heroes is ...
King Arthur and his knights of the round table. Regardless of the permutation in which the story appears, it always carries with ...
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 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...
leader, Hector (son of King Priam), he kills in single combat. The poem closes as Achilles surrenders the corpse of Hector to Pria...
In five pages this paper examines the legendary status of the Beowulf epic. There are no other sources listed....
In 5 pages the concept of tragic hero as defined by Aristotle is examined within th context of the novel by Gustave Flaubert and c...
typically be defined as a teacher, lawyer, politician, farmer, or family man who represents American ideas relative to collective...
In five pages this 1985 text is examined in terms of its family epic characteristics. There are no other sources listed....
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 discusses the author Dante Alighieri and his fictional alter ego Dante the poet in his epic in terms of t...
In five pages the classical hero is examined in a comparative analysis of the similarities and differences that exist between King...
In five pages this paper examines the moral truth representation of the pentangle in an analysis of the 'Sir Gawain and the Green ...
In five pages this paper discusses the insights contained within the Medieval epic in terms of Grendel's death, his mother's react...
In six pages this character analysis of Hektor in 'The Iliad' by Homer reveals how he is a hero who also happens to be human and h...
These "myths" satisfy our "hunger for community." The hero embodies the values of a community. May writes: The myth of the home...
In five pages the heroes in these classic works are contrasted and compared. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....
In five pages this essay considers Hercules in an overview of his mythological life and compares the Greek version to the popular ...