Essays 301 - 330
In five pages most of Genesis' Chapter 22 is analyzed in order to determine Abraham's test significance. Five sources are cited i...
human condition then and now. Throughout the course of the story, Gilgamesh takes several physical journeys. However, the one mo...
fire, his roar is the roar/of the floodwater; he breathes and there is death (lines 128-129). Gilgamesh perseveres despite the ad...
all too suddenly succumbed to temptation and became the gatekeeper of Hell -- a place of consequence where one goes whose choices ...
lost natural state, at which point Shamhat offers to take him to the city where the joys of "civilization shine in their resplende...
line "yet this is the shepherd of the city, wise, comely and resolute" points up the difference in the qualities that the king sho...
This essay pertains to the characters of Gilgamesh and Achilles and how they each warrior-heroes representing their culture. The w...
This essay considers Gilgamesh, Candide and Metamorphosis, and how these three classics of literature expressed the theme of betra...
This essay pertains to the epics of Gilgamesh and Beowulf and their respective life journeys to maturity. Seven pages in length, s...
primary role was that of sexual object. But, at the same time it also illustrates that men did not like sharing their women with a...
voracious sexual appetites by raping young village girls and claiming other mens wives as his own conquests on their wedding night...
quest for the Holy Grail that were considered by filmmaker Terry Gilliam and screenwriter Richard LaGravenese in the 1991 movie Th...
one might look at the very opening lines of the epic, which address the reader, even the contemporary reader, directly and states ...
on having sex with every bride on her wedding night. It was an imperative belief in the ancient world that for society to exist, t...
were and what they sought in a ruler. That the king was to represent the highest values and virtues of society is evident from sch...
This paper discusses three classic literary works, Gilgamesh, Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, and Oedipus Rex. The author draws comparisons from...
author does not present stories of his political maneuverings or military battles. Instead, the story is told about a singular ma...
In seven pages topics of general intent, good, evil, and heroism are related to the epic tales of 'Beowulf' and 'Epic of Gilgamesh...
In five pages this paper explores the homosexual or bisexual tendencies as revealed in his relationship with Enkidu in the Epic of...
In five pages this paper considers the political dilemma of the Duchess of Calzone and how Odysseus, Gilgamesh, and Machiavelli wo...
In five pages this paper examines how the concepts of life and death as regarded by the ancient Mesopotamian peoples are reflected...
In five pages this paper examines the role of Enkidu in the education of Gilgamesh and his understanding that accepting his mortal...
In six pages an analysis of the heroic symbolism in the epics 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,' 'Beowulf,' and 'Epic of Gilgamesh...
In five pages this paper discusses the societal and immortality quests of epic heroes in Gilgamesh and Homer's 'The Odyssey' in a ...
it would seem. Socrates agrees for he sees that by having such an argument with Euthyphro he may find a better way to plead his ow...
possible sense of self. "He took his heavy shield killed the dragon with his heavy bronze axe, which weighed seven talents and se...
millennium BC, but probably existed in much the same form many centuries earlier" ("Gilgamesh," gilgamesh.html). Gilgamesh tell...
In six pages this report discusses how the beliefs and philosophies of the ancient culture of Mesopotamia are reflected in The Epi...
In five pages this report examines how family dynamics were portrayed in epic literature in a consideration of Sappho's poetry, Ar...
In ten pages this paper evaluates the extent of man's power over his fate within the literary contexts of 'Epic of Gilgamesh,' 'Th...