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Refusing Immortality in 'The Odyssey' by Homer

In five pages this essay considers Odysseus' refusal to transform from mortal to immortal in terms of reasons why this stance was ...

Author's Philosophies in Candide by Voltaire

In two pages, 2 essays analyzing Candide by Voltaire focus on the author's philosophies regarding concepts such as fate and God. ...

Underlying Meaning in Candide by Voltaire

In six pages this essay analyzes the allegorical word meaning featured in Candide by Voltaire and how this impacts upon Candide's ...

Strange Conclusion of Candide by Voltaire

In five pages this essay analyzes the bizarre conclusion of this novel by Voltaire and its satirical implications. There are 2 so...

Jean de Coras verses Gertrude B. Himmlefarb in The Return Of Martin Guerre and The New History and the Old: Critical Essays and Reappraisals

In this six paper paper the writer explores the book by Jean de Coras and updated by Nathalie Z. Davis. This exploration occurs a...

Protagonist Cyrano De Bergerac

In three pages this persuasive and personal essay examines the reasons why this protagonist qualifies as a hero. There is no bibl...

Reaction to Germinal by Emile Zola

Rasseneur, a former miner who was fired for participating in a previous strike. He is more of a reformer than Lantier. And Lanti...

Feminine Relationships in 'The Girl' by Le Sueur

In four pages this essay discusses the feminist movement in terms of the story's portrayal of women's relations and mother and dau...

The Tragic Hero Okonkwo in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

This essay consisting of four pages considers how the protagonist satisfies the tragic hero criteria as defined by Aristotle offer...

The Unwillingness of Okonkwo to Conform in Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart'

In this essay consisting of two pages the writer presents the argument that Okonkwo's failure to conform to society in all matters...

'Beowulf' and King Hrothgar's Character

In three pages this essay analyzes the Medieval epic and argues that the most human character is Hrothgar. There is no bibliograp...

Knights and Nobles Relationship in Yvain by Chretien de Troyes

the armed services during a violent era. The rank of knight became a landholding rank. The knight held his land by as military t...

Factual or Fictitious King Arthur Legends?

In eight pages this essay assesses whether or not King Arthur was an actual living figure or if he was a fictitious creation by au...

Epic Heroism of King Gilgamesh

The Epic of Gilgamesh, composed about 2000 BC and found inscribed on 12 tablets at Nineveh, is the earliest known epic. The Epic...

'The Odyssey,' 'Epic of Gilgamesh,' Violence and Heroism

This essay consists of six pages and in a comparative heroic analysis of Gilgamesh and Odysseus presents the arguments that despit...

Eternal Happiness and God

In ten pages free will and God are analyzed in this philosophical essay with a critical examination of theories by Hume, Kierkegaa...

Dreams and Whether or Not They Are Meaningful

Using the concepts of Thomas Aquinas this essay consisting of three pages discusses why dream symbolism is meaningful in terms of ...

Strepsiades, Socrates, and The Clouds by Aristophanes

on their own account." The disciple shows Strepsiades a globe used for astronomy and a map used for geometry. Strepsiades see...

Socrates' Choice to Stay in Prison in Crito by Plato

in violation of the law and acknowledged that he should be punished accordingly. His "apology" was not a request for forgiveness,...

Why Thucydides, Marx, and Plato View Democracy as the Worst Form of Government

In five pages this argumentative essay employs these philosophical writings in support of the notion that the worst type of govern...

Theories of Forms According to Aristotle and Plato

In five pages this essay contrasts and compares the views on forms held by Plato as critiqued by Aristotle with references made to...

Philosophers Compared

if it is taken outside of the context of societal situations. For Nozick, justice is more clearly a function of societal roles a...

Virtue as Perceived by Epictetus and Aristotle

In five pages this essay contrasts and compares the views of these ancient philosophers regarding the patience virtue. There are ...

Nietzsche, Kant, and Locke Perspectives on Western Philosophical Causality Since Descartes

In five pages the issue of causality and its nature regarding human existence understanding are examined from the philosophical pe...

Interdisciplinary Perspective on Philosophy

In five pages this research essay examines how the disciplines of computer science, scientific method, psychology, sociology, art,...

Thomas Hobbes' and Jean Paul Sartre's Theories

In about nine pages short essays consider the contradictions that appear in the theories of Sartre and Hobbes. There is no biblio...

On Being and Consciousness by Jean Paul Sartre

In ten pages this essay critiques Sartre's reasoning as it pertains to consciousness and the nature of being. There is no bibliog...

Meditations of Rene Descartes

In six pages this essay examines the preface and each of the Meditations in terms of its primary points, the relationship that exi...

The Imprint of Religions on Nations

and their ministers are Rabbis. China, on the other hand, is primarily Buddhist. Is any one religion better than...

Stephen L. Carter's Culture of Disbelief

In six pages this essay provides a summary and analysis of Carter's text. Bibliography includes a full text citation....