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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...

Othello and Oedipus the King and the Determination of Appearances and Reality

logical explanation, Othello seemed bent on confirming that he will never be more than a misfit in Venice. Desdemonas protestatio...

Dramatic Tragedy and How It Has Evolved

did not attract the attention of the gods. This was still true in Shakespeares time. The few commoners he included were never cen...

Homer's 'The Odyssey' and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

and the tales of this one mans adventure. The man is Odysseus and his adventures are legendary. He is not a man searching for the ...

Tragic Hero Oedipus in Oedipus the King by Sophocles

evolves to become so much more than he, at first, appeared to be as he came to see the errors of his ways by the end of the play a...

Freudian Morality in Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

In three pages this paper discusses Freudian morality within the context of protagonist Gustav von Aschenbach in this analysis of ...

Comparative Literary Analysis of William Faulkner's Modernism and Toni Morrison's Postmodernism

(without excluding the importance of the past), where everything is not spelled out neatly for the reader. The reader must interp...

An Exploration of The Unities

it. A well constructed plot, therefore, must neither begin nor end at haphazard, but conform to these principles" (Aristotle 7-8)....

False Human Experience Analysis Represented by 'The Death of Ivan Ilych' by Leo Tolstoy

In three and a half pages this paper argues that the criticism of this 1886 literary work by Leo Tolstoy that describes it as 'a p...

Comparing On the Road by Jack Kerouac and Go by John Clellon Holmes

In five pages this paper examines these two literary examples of the Beat Generation in a consideration of Stofsky's imaginary tri...

Antagonist and Protagonist in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper examines William Shakespeare's Hamlet in an assessment of the portrayals of the antagonist and protagonis...

Protagonists Othello and Hamlet

In five pages this paper examines the similarities and differences that existed between two of William Shakespeare's most famous a...

Toni Morrison's Beloved and the Degrees of Separation

An eight page paper looking at the issue of separation in Toni Morrison's modern classic. The paper points out that there are real...

Richard Wright's Black Boy and William Faulkner's Light in August and Black Identity

white society or in any way "rock the boat". As Jennifer Poulos observes, they are, in particular, taught to be quiet, and to refr...

The Matrix Character of Neo

Reeves plays Neo, a hacker who learns from rebel-rousers Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) that the wor...

The Meaning of Life According to Leo Tolstoy

This 10 page paper examines Leo Tolstoy's literary works and personal philosophy, and argues that he sought simplicity and spiritu...

Love's Success or Failure in Quicksand by Nella Larsen and The Awakening by Kate Chopin

for fleeting moments of pleasure with Robert Lebrun, Ednas longing for love remained unfulfilled. One defining even occurred when...

Zoya by Danielle Steel

In five pages Steel's romance novel is critically assessed in terms of its theme and literary elements, which leave much to be des...

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and 'Four Turns'

In five pages this paper examines how the reader's perceptions are changed in the 4 sudden literary turns Tolkien incorporated int...

Emergent Literacy and Reading Readiness Approaches

In two pages this paper compares the literary instructional approaches of emergent literacy and reading readiness in a considerati...

American Revolutioin from Different Perspectives

how things were effected, but rather, the investigation goes to why. One may glean, from reading this book, that America was prope...

'Ideal' Parson in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales

Its almost as if Chaucer chose to include the Parson as a character in order to foil the other characters. In other words, its as...

James Rachels and Cultural Relativism

within cultures, and its important that these relative differences remain. However, he goes on to criticize, these are not issues ...

A Cultural Anthropology Overview

his a "holistic" science, taking everything in context as humanity as a whole, rather than one that involves just a portion of som...

Comparative Analysis of the Poems 'Tintern Abbey' and 'The Thorn' by William Wordsworth

does the reader surmise that the author is wholly attentive to his craft, but he also is privy to the notion that Wordsworth write...

Cinematic Neorealism

neorealistic filmmakers, such as Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica and Cesare Zavattini, was to make a "moral statement," which forces ...

Leggatt and Captain in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer

Although "The Secret Sharer" was not written until 1909, some thirteen years after his last sea voyage, it is considered one of Co...

Play and 1995 Film Version of William Shakespeare's Othello

an extremely abbreviated version of the play. Well over half the dialogue of the original play has been condensed or eliminated i...

Outsiders Considered by Lee and Hardy

the beginning of the story that she does not fit in with the other milkmaids, as she works off by herself, not taking part in the ...

Biographical Quality Websites Verses Professional Literature

This paper comments on the difference is writing quality between a typical website and the professional literature. Christopher M...