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The Hero's Journey of Achilles and Odysseus

Magician, and Warrior. During those times when we may not be able to relate to the character of a story, we can usually react to ...

Tragic Heroes in Death of a Salesman and Oedipus

A 10 page analysis of the tragic hero as he manifests in these two classic plays. Twists of events affect these heroes differentl...

Two Very Different Heroes Aeneas and Achilles

ultimate control, where there could be no arguments. Although all power was concentrated in the hands of a single ruler, Roman c...

Popular American Mythological Hero Forrest Gump

In eight pages this paper examines the popular movie character in terms of the qualities he embodies as a popular mythological her...

Heroism in 'Aeneid' by Virgil and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

In four pages the concept of the hero's journey as it manifest itself in these classical works of literature is examined. There i...

Real World Microcosm of the Asylum in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

In nine pages this paper presents the argument that the 'world' of the asylum that is featured in the novel represents a real worl...

Comparing and Contrasting Achilles and Beowulf

The writer compares and contrasts Achilles, a hero from Greek mythology, with Beowulf, the hero of the Old English epic poem. The ...

Beowulf and a Contrast of Battles with Grendel, Grendel's Mother, and the Dragon

to his mother, he has been depicted as a solitary creature, not unlike the hombres in Sergio Leones "spaghetti" Westerns, who walk...

'Don Juan' by Lord Byron

In eight pages the romantic 'Don Juan' is contrasted and compared with the hero's poetic satirist, Lord Byron. Five sources are c...

Heroic Dante and Sir Gawain

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...

Icons and Heroes

In five pages this paper examines the concepts of icons and heroes and defines hero along with providing a human example. There a...

Literary Heroes Come of Age

The tale of a hero becoming an adult is a staple of literature. This essay compares heroes Han Solo and Odysseus, Luke Skywalker a...

The Heroic Aeneas

In a paper that consists of eight pages the definition of hero throughout the course of cultural history is considered in support ...

Classical Literature and the Hero

In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares the hero's role in Sophocles' Antigone, Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesia...

The Film 'Titanic' from a Formalist Perspective

heroes (or heroines) epic journey in self-discovery and personal awareness and understanding of the world in which he or she exist...

Heroic Myth in Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

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...

Business World and 'A Hero's Journey'

In five pages this research paper applies Christopher Vogler's 'hero's journey' concepts to Fictions of Business by Robert Brawer....

Russia and the Downfall of Communism

In four pages this paper discusses Russia and the downfall of communism and argued it was doomed to meet such a fate. Five source...

Self Destructive Downfall of Czarist Russia

In five pages this paper argues that in 1917 the Russian Empire disintegration was the result of its own collapse rather than an o...

Mayan Civilization Downfall

In ten pages the causes of the collapse of the Mayan civilization is examined in terms of causes with drought and warfare receivin...

Guatemalan President Arbenz's Downfall

In fifteen pages the 1950s' downfall of President Arbenz of Guatemala and the role the CIA played in it are discussed in a conside...

Millennium Dome's Downfall

In eight pages this paper applies a PEST analysis to support the argument that the Millennium Dome mistakenly positioned its targe...

Downfall of Othello

well as a "Barbary horse" (I.i.111). As this indicates, the two men are particularly repulsed at the thought of Othello and Desd...

The Downfall of Arthur Andersen LLP

age 56, brought in a new break of auditors, who were not steeped in the integrity and ethics of the original founder and subsequen...

Enron, the Contribution of Masculine Culture to its Downfall

the epitome of stereotypical masculinity almost to the point of caricature. Skilling once said that he had thought about it a lot ...

His Downfall is Oedipus’s Own Fault

with Teiresias (Johnston). It seems odd to some, but the quarrel makes sense if we understand Oedipus as someone who sees things i...

Soviet Union's Downfall and Reports by American Intelligence

drop in performance indicators, might strengthen conservative opposition. Such trends, coupled with the continuing nationality tu...

Saddam Hussein's Life and Downfall

more general and objective look at the man. If the only sources used, for example, were from United States publications with right...

Downfall of Enron and Its Reasons

At the crux of the issue is the fact that $3.85 billion in expenses was hidden from the companys financial statements in 2001...

Teacher's Downfall in Muriel Sparks' The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

other commodity. Of her young charges she takes specific notice of six of her students starting at the time they are approximatel...