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has received a considerable amount of attention. Eighteenth century critics argued in favor of viewing the poem as fundamentally p...
so important because it represents at the beginning the significance of having a male heir to carry on ancestral traditions. The ...
Green Knight is without fear, and without any weakness it would seem. He has simply come to dare any man to show that they are rea...
In five pages this 1985 text is examined in terms of its family epic characteristics. There are no other sources listed....
In four pages this paper analyzes how life's renewal and rebirth are symbolically represented by the olive tree in Homer's epic 'T...
among four children in his family. The father was an intelligent, religious man, a hard-working storekeeper and an important leade...
In five pages this paper discusses the author Dante Alighieri and his fictional alter ego Dante the poet in his epic in terms of t...
In five pages this paper examines the moral truth representation of the pentangle in an analysis of the 'Sir Gawain and the Green ...
quoted as saying: "Achilles, valiant though you be, you shall not thus outwit me. You shall not overreach and you shall not persua...
emphatically Christian as in a tone mildly so" (125). John Niles has written that "Attempts to show a specific correlation betw...
In 5 pages this paper considers the significance of the Great Flood story retelling in the Epic of Gilgamesh and in the Book of Ge...
In 5 pages this paper examines themes of quest and identity as they are represented in Homer's epic and how they enable Odysseus a...
In 5 pages this paper presents a character analysis of Grendel as featured in the epic 'Beowulf' and how he is intended to be repr...
In twn pages this paper discusses the symbolic significance of references to the color green in the Medieval epic 'Sir Gawain and ...
In five pages the influence Marlowe received from writers of ancient Greece and Rome are considered as reflected in this poetic ep...
was also a master of trickery. Odysseus would often hesitate before taking action. This was not out of cowardice. It was his way...
In a paper consisting of six pages this paper examines how the themes of faith anf retribution are reprsented in the 'Noah and the...
This paper examines the power by women in ancient Hebrew and Greek societies as represented by Rebekah in the Old Testament and Na...
to his mother, he has been depicted as a solitary creature, not unlike the hombres in Sergio Leones "spaghetti" Westerns, who walk...
In five pages this paper examines the legendary status of the Beowulf epic. There are no other sources listed....
Two characters from each of Homer's epics are compared in five pages in order to ascertain which is the most heroic of the charact...
the weak and defender of his territory and do whatever he must in the name of survival. A ravenous Odysseus is described by Homer...
In five pages this paper considers Odysseus' heroic tale as described in Homer's poetic epic 'The Odyssey.' There are no other so...
In five pages the difficult decisions Aeneas had to make in Vergil's epic 'Aeneid' are explored. There are 3 sources cited in th...
In a paper consisting of four pages the ways in which Pope mocks feuding families, the ancient Greek epic, and the aristocracy wit...
leader, Hector (son of King Priam), he kills in single combat. The poem closes as Achilles surrenders the corpse of Hector to Pria...
King Arthur and his knights of the round table. Regardless of the permutation in which the story appears, it always carries with ...
In eight pages this paper analyzes 'The Iliad' in a consideration of the relationships between males and females and humans and go...
In four pages the conformity or nonconformity of Coleridge's prose in this poem is compared with the sonnet's and epic poem's trad...
In six pages this paper examines how Telemachus grows and develops throughout the course of Homer's epic. There are no other sour...