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Conscience, Action, and Revenge of Hamlet

In eleven pages this paper examines the revenge of Shakespeare's tragic protagonist and how his being caught between acting and hi...

Hamlet and the Hesitation Motif

In five pages this paper examines how William Shakespeare employed the hesitation motif in this tragic play in an analysis of how ...

Madness of Hamlet

In six pages this essay examines the self destructiveness of Shakespeare's tragic character and how this life negation contributes...

Madness of Hamlet

In five pages this paper assesses whether or not William Shakespeare's tragic protagonist was truly mad. There are no other sourc...

Tragic Elements of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

slain kings brother, Claudius. In shock and disbelief, Hamlet imagines that his fathers ghost comes to visit him and proclaims, "...

"Hamlet" and Suicide as an Important Theme

not fixd His canon gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this wor...

Character Comparisons in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing II

becomes more and more obvious. Their words, which appear to be that demonstrating disdain, are words spouted by lovers who are con...

Women in Much Ado About Nothing and Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

In ten pages this paper discusses how the traditional and nontraditional roles of women are represented in Hero and Bianca, and Be...

Were the Vikings a Constructive or Destructive Force?

traced back to the rather lurid sensationalism of ecclesiastical writers of that period (Magnusson 10). Since monasteries were fre...

Brian Bosworth

In six pages analytical, psychodynamic, and personality paradigms are applied to former professional athlete Brian Bosworth as dep...

Lewis Puller, Jr.'s Autobiography Fortunate Son

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...

Odysseus and Achilles

In this paper of five pages two classical heroes are contrasted in terms of the older and noble Odysseus and the young and volatil...

Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell and American Society

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...

Poetry of Homer and Heroism in 'The Odyssey' and 'The Iliad'

the weak and defender of his territory and do whatever he must in the name of survival. A ravenous Odysseus is described by Homer...

Walker, Pearson, Frankl, Miller, and Fromm on Identity and Meaning

In 5 pages these 20th century writers and thinkers are examined regarding their interpretations of identity and life's meaning in ...

Okonkwo was to Blame in Things Fall Apart by Achebe

In a paper consisting of five pages an assessment regarding Okonkwo's responsibility for his own tragedy is discussed through an e...

Heroic Odysseus

In five pages this paper discusses how the classical hero definition applies to Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey. There are no ot...

Overview of the Battle of New Orleans

troops and frontier riflemen under Jackson had inflicted "appalling casualties on the British line," killing or wounding over two ...

Achilles and Odysseus in A Modern Comparison

In this paper of six pages a broad comparison of thes classic heroes considers how they would fare in the contemporary world. The...

Comparative Analysis of the Victimization of Protagonists Oroonoko and Heathcliff

Both of the primary mail characters are fundamentally powerless, as are the narrators of the stories. Ironically, a great deal of...

Saving Jewish Lives by Raul Wallenberg

In four pages this paper discusses the achievements of Second World War hero, Swedish diplomat Raul Wallenberg. Five sources are ...

Heroic or Villainous Tchaikovsky?

In eleven pages this paper critically analyzes Tchaikovsky through Marxism, feminism, and Freudian perspectives to support the arg...

Hero of the Mexican Revolution Pancho Villa

This paper consists of five pages and considers Pancho Villa, hero of the Mexican Revolution and examines his impact upon the earl...

Robert Coles' The Call of Service

In five pages this paper discusses the text's description of individuals who have felt compelled to perform public service and how...

Heroes, War, and Rebellion in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

In seven pages these two works are contrasted and compared regarded the differing perspectives on heroes, rebellion, and war each ...

Milkman Dead as a Classic Hero in Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

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...

Sensitive Heroes in Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

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...

Heroes in 3 Stories by Ernest Hemingway

In six pages this paper examines the depiction of heroes in the short stories 'Hills Like White Elephants,' 'Soldier's Home,' and ...

Heroes in Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and A Farewell to Arms

In eight pages this paper examines the code hero of Ernest Hemingway in the characterizations of Robert Jordan and Frederic Henry....

Bildungsroman or Coming of Age in The Reivers by William Faulkner

This paper examines how the Bildungsroman or coming of age technique is employed by William Faulkner in the portrayal of his 11 ye...