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Western Classical Literature and Women

was forbidden to her, period. It was not her place to try to reason why; it was her place to obey without question. This is what w...

Audience Relationship Enjoyed by Homer and Dante

a conduit between two otherwise strangers. Poetry is as diverse a means of communication as any medium, yet there are vast arrays...

Feminine Literary Ideal

her day and age, women were of two types, generally speaking: bad and good. The good were set upon pedestals and were seen as the ...

Hell as Envisioned by Dante

city until he thrusts her back again to Hell, From which she was first sent above by envy. Therefore I think and judge it best for...

Quest and the Works of Dante and Homer

journey of humanity through life. Dantes epic charts a journey of the soul, from the depths of degradation to the radiance of rede...

Earth and Heaven According to Dante Alighieri and Augustine of Hippo

tells the reader that all the Romans desired, and more, would actually be found in the City of God. This is not to say that moneta...

Gluttony and How Dante Would Punish It

and contest the idea that their weight is problematic. They contend that they are healthy the way they are and there is a fat acce...

'Inferno' of Dante and Hell's 5th and 6th Levels

Of course, the water is not pure. It is important to remember this is a hellish environment and reflects that aura. One might be i...

Dante Alighieri's Inferno and Politics

meets many individuals that he actually admired. When they were in the third ring, a ring that was devoted to those who committed ...

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...

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...

Tragic Heroes King Oedipus and King Lear

In five pages Aristotle's definition of a tragic hero is applied to these two literary monarchs. One source is cited in the bibli...

Evil as a Theme in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Dante's Divine Comedy

A research paper addressing the portrayal of evil in Dante's Divine Comedy and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The author draws the c...

Speech Analysis / King's 'I Have a Dream'

Dr. King does indeed work to build his credibility during his speech although it was probably not as necessary in his particular s...

An Analysis of I Have a Dream

the "promissory note" that was made to each and every American when the Constitution was written (King, 1963). He and the group ha...

'I Have a Dream' Speech by Martin Luther King Jr. from a Neo Aristotelian Perspective

dramatize a shameful condition"(Dream.html). King already has the support of African-Americans, therefore, in order for his speec...

Einhard's The Two Lives of Charlemagne

In five pages tis paper discusses a day in Charlemagne's life from the point of view of one of the King's cautious friends....

Thomas King's Truth and Bright Water

Thomas King's novel Truth and Bright Water and its thematic duality are discussed in five pages....

Gertrude in Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Jocasta in Oedipus the King by Sophocles Compared

on a number of issues. Jocasta is presented in Oedipus the King as a middle-aged woman, a bit reserved, and uncomfortable in the ...

Soyinka and Sophocles on the Relationship Between Parent and Child

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares Soyinka's The King's Horseman and Sophocles' Oedipus the King in terms of how thes...

Civil Disobedience, Martin Luther King, and Henry David Thoreau

gets. If anything Thoreau gives us an emotional warning, He who gives himself entirely to his fellow men appears to them useles...

Marxism and the Superiority of Martin Luther King's Equality Concepts

In three pages King and Marx are contrasted and compared with the writer ultimately concluding that Martin Luther King's notions o...

Martin Luther King's Ideas About Love

to love their oppressors in an affectionate sense. Love in this connection means understanding good will as expressed in the Greek...

Martin Luther King/”Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

as his overarching rationale, as he is also in Birmingham "because "injustice is here" (King). In analyzing the situation in Bir...

Quest Themes in Dante Alighieri's 'Inferno' and Homer's 'The Odyssey'

In five pages this paper examines how the quest theme is depicted in these works by Dante and Homer. Three sources are cited in t...

Beatrice's Character in 'Inferno' by Dante

Divine Comedy is examined in six pages in terms of the tales 4 meaning levels, considers why Dante selected Beatrice as the primar...

Dante, the Inferno, and the Question of Gender

human existence that it informs all aspects of society. This paper considers the way Dante portrays gender concepts of masculinity...

Star Wars by John Williams

This essay offers an overview of the melody and harmony used in John William's main theme from Star Wars. The writer compares Will...

Logos in Canto VII, Circle 5 to 7 of Inferno by Dante Alighieri

go to those government officials who have accepted bribes, or religious leaders who had aspired to political power. According to D...

Hell and Satan in 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton and 'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri

sins and sinners are tortured for eternity. In all honesty, each level seems horrible with no descending level becoming any more f...