Essays 61 - 90
In six pages this paper contrasts and compares how women were oppressed by law and society in the Old Testament and in Homer's epi...
In four pages the significance of the hospitality theme in 'The Odyssey' is discussed in examples of King Alkinoos', Melenaus', an...
In five pages this paper presents a thematic analysis of how sacrifice is portrayed in 'The Odyssey.' There are 2 sources cited i...
This paper consists of five pages and examines how Homer's perspectives on the afterlife as revealed in 'The Odyssey' compare with...
In two pages this paper discusses the heroines of The Thousand and One Nights and 'The Odyssey' in a consideration of how they att...
In five pages this paper examines how love and relationships are depicted in such ancient Greek literary works as Lysistrata, Anti...
In seven pages this paper discusses past and present myths and violence with examples provided from ancient works The Aeneid, The ...
In three pges this paper contrasts and compares the characterizations of Penelope in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and Desdemona in Othel...
She is disgusted by the fact that she must respond to the blackmailer, but also proud that she has defended her husband and her li...
In six pages this paper discusses the author's creation of the 'Other' soul as a way of expressing Creole political issues and how...
In nine pages this paper examines how metaphysics is represented in Arthur C. Clarke's science fiction novels such as Rendezvous w...
men encounter comrades who were killed and left unburied, meaning that their spirits are doomed to wander. The first thing that st...
and marginalized in both classical and modern literature, one must first understand how the prevailing viewpoint of women as funda...
beginning, feels like he is in a position of complete helplessness. His father has been gone nearly 20 years and he is forced to d...
in the cave by night, it was she, not he, that would have it so" (Homer V). In this we get the impression that while Ulysses may h...
father and travels great distances until he comes to Italy where he holds games and celebrations for his fathers death. He is told...
and suicide because life did not work out well enough for a particular character, Anna Karenina. We are also given the strong expe...
does provoke Didos suicide one has to question to what extent he would embrace the label of hero. At the same time, besides the in...
to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...
In eight pages Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Sophocles' 'Oedipus Rex' are compared with Poe's 'Ms. Found in a Bottle' and 'The Purloin...
This paper contrasts and compares the depiction of Phaedra by Euripides in Hippolytus and Penelope by Homer in 'The Odyssey' in fi...
In five pages the epic heroes that are featured in epic literary works are discussed in a consideration of 'The Song of Roland,' '...
In five pages this paper examines jimson weed indulgence and lotus eating in this consideration of how substance abuse is represen...
a commonplace story already familiar to his listeners, he could (and did) omit much of the unnecessary backstory (with respect to ...
In five pages this paper examines Homer's 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' in its portrayal of Homeric warfare in a consideration of ...
In five pages this paper discusses the maturation Odysseus underwent throughout the course of 'The Odyssey.' Three sources are ci...
a good person or a bad person, only that he is religious. In another section, much further along in the story, we see Odysseus t...
the theme of hospitality in such situations is emphasized when we recognize that this same theme is repeated many times in the Bib...
Calypsos island and has been since the war ended. Athena begins her guidance by getting agreement from the gods (Homer 1.26-27). ...
In five pages Circe, the Sirens, Nausikaa, Helen, Calypson, Athena, and Penelope are examined in this discussion of how women's ro...