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Beloved Dismemberment in Poetry

particular woman but does not possess her. Another may clearly see that the woman he describes is his. Regardless, however, of whe...

Comparing Shakespare's 1 Henry IV and Richard II

championing the people who had initiated his ascent to power, Henry IV turned his back on them, and transformed himself into a dis...

The Sinai Accords and Henry Kissinger

sure it exists". Background Since the division of Palestine in 1947 and the creation of the new state of Israel in 1948 whi...

Thematic Analysis of Life Without Principle by Henry David Thoreau

understand that Thoreau would believe that poets contribute a great deal. Hence, it is understandable why he makes such claims. Fi...

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and its Tragic Hero Willy Loman

a tragic character as he remembers events from his past and why things went wrong. Through this process, he seems to be losing tou...

21st Century and Henry David Thoreau

States and among philosophers in general. While this background was largely unnecessary from the perspective of many of the retre...

Characterization of the Lonely Hero in T.S. Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' and Thomas Mann's Death in Venice

the stern discipline of an active career" and these characteristics "had taken over the office of modeling these features. Behind ...

Epic Hero Luke Skywalker in Star Wars

given a task to perform and in doing so derives some sort of personal meaning from it. He may meet with a great series of misfortu...

Tragic Hero Represented by Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

the span of a day comes face-to-face with the realization that the American Dream has become a nightmare of his own making, that t...

Heroic Moses

Philosophy "Hero" as used by Campbell (1990) is androgynous, and he underscores this fact by using the pronouns "he" and "s...

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare and the Character of Brutus

assassination not as a betrayal of his friend and leader, but as "a chivalric defender of national honor" (Bloom 123). He perceiv...

Wilson and Henry in The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

to enlist in the Union army. He leaves his mother and the farm behind, which have always offered him a sheltered existence. We see...

Ernest Hemingway's 'Code Hero'

hero may have incredible moral fiber, but have a tendency to love women he can never have. Tragic flaws, if one looks at any story...

Act III, Scene 2 of Henry IV, Part One by William Shakespeare

Hal will give his full allegiance (Grossman 170). While the audience undoubtedly realizes, since the plot is drawn from English h...

We'll Always Have Paris

The writer analyzes the 1942 classic film Casablanca, and argues that Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, is the archetypal re...

Code Hero in Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises

story revolves around an American news correspondent, Jake Barnes, who lives and works in Europe, as well as his assorted friends"...

Aristotle's Definition of a 'Tragic Hero' and the Deviation of William Shakespeare in His Play Othello

not apply. First, the tragic hero is supposed to be a combination of good and bad traits. Othello is a Moorish commander who has...

Role of the Governess in The Turn of the Screw by Henry Jam

problematical: did the ghost have an existence as a participant before the events of the narrative took place, but was not percept...

'Where I Lived & What I Lived For' by Henry David Thoreau

that he was "in haste" to buy it before the owner finished making any more "improvements," i.e. changes that Thoreau implies he hi...

'The Children's Hour' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

the midst of conversation, a factor that appears to be typical of Longfellows verse. The entirety of the poem, while formally stru...

Fiction Writing and Philosophy of the Romantic Era

truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...

Literary Social Criticism

punishes her by labeling her with the letter "A" and through social ostracism. Thoreaus argument with the state in "Civil Disobe...

Families in the Works of William Shakespeare and Happiness

of shallowness in schemings clothing, while rejecting the honest and heartfelt response of Cordelia, the only daughter who truly d...

William Shakespeare's 'Absent' Mothers in Six Plays

"What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see / She is your treasure, she must have a husband; / I must dance bare-foot on her we...

Comparing Macbeth by William Shakespeare and Henry the Eighth

faced the slave, / Which neer shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, / Till he unseamd him from the nave to the chaps, / And fixd ...

Church Elders and Ecclesiology

logical that the same sentiment would apply to the post of "elder" as well. While not stated overtly, the clear implication is tha...

Architecture of Westminster Abbey and Its French Influence

of King Louis IX (1226-1270)(Martindale). Around the decade of 1220-1230, it became clear that medieval engineering expertise had ...

Elders According to Doctrine of Ecclesiology

the Bible is "overseer," the implication is that the verse is referring to a position of leadership in which the individual is res...

Evaluating King Henry IV Through Machiavellian and Other Perspectives

King of France in 1589 (2000). He was raised in the Protestant faith and "he settled the religious question by adopting Catholicis...

Biblical Scripture's Doctrine of Inerrancy

unique personalities and writing styles (Thiessen, 1979). Theissen explains that the Holy Spirit supervised these writers to insur...