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journey from the court to the Green Castle, illustrating how the travels are obviously a metaphor for the journey from childhood t...

Okonkwo was like that, and the fact that his contemporaries in the village considered some of his traits excessive is communicated...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the myths featured in these ancient works and also makes a thematic comparison wit...

of the Muse to introduce its tale: "Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story / of that man skilled in all ways of contendin...

which we, the reader or viewer, can relate to. We see them as noble individuals who demonstrate weakness, yet still battle against...

since the Middle Ages as the models for literature at its grandest" (McDaniel 1-15pope.htm). It is a general consensus that Popes ...

In seven pages this paper analyzes the poem that asserts the spiritual themes of the poem are metaphorically portrayed by the trag...

heroic ideal of the young and noble combatant who appears to be destined to die at an early age on the battlefield. Achilleus is ...

is somber (tragic). "...In great works of art all levels in which interpretation can be pursued fruitfully probably remain in som...

hes writing" (Steinberg inferno.htm). It is the Canto which presents us with the innocent and frightened Dante. He is just beginni...

be regarded as a historical document. There is very little certain about the poem itself or its author, who was supposedly a blin...

In five pages this paper considers how the hero Redcrosse in Spenser's The Faerie Queen represents Christianity and justice. Two ...

for his own wants as a man. Sir Gawains virtue is tested against the backdrop of religious implication when Bercilaks wife ...

home, his palace, his wife, his son, his people. Ogygia Ulysses is trapped on Calypsos island for many years. If it werent for...

a feast of rejoicing, as well as to keep himself clean and well groomed; he is to cherish his children and his wife (Radcliffe PG)...

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

of the press, freedom of speech, religious toleration among Protestants, the sovereignty of the people, the power of sovereigns de...

of all, it establishes his character as a nobility in his own right, as he is descended from royalty. Furthermore, Othellos simple...

purposes of taming Enkidu, the wild man (Radcliffe, 2001). Enkidu is important to the story as he exemplifies the average man in s...

and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring" (Hemingway 13). There is little said about Fre...

Oedipus story we have one that seems to offer us the belief that through intellectual pursuit we can somehow avoid the inevitable,...

(2) which struck the coup de grace" (Floyd ucla13.html). As we can see, although Hektor obviously killed Patroklos, he was just on...

Passage to India. However, his creative pinnacle is largely acknowledged to be the wildly successful (both critically as well as ...

killed, Betty gets involved in a con game run by a transvestite named Raulito and takes the Rosalies place as a porno queen. Bert,...

series of misfortunes, but the hero endures, because it is this constant facing of death that defines life. The code hero makes ...

into marriage, religion/gods, revenge, rituals, and reputation. Marriage Clearly Ulysses story involves the condition of marria...

(Hunter). She takes him to the River Styx because, "everything the sacred waters touched became invulnerable, but the heel remain...

noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...

as a direct result of Nationalism. Tensions in Germany in particular before the outbreak of war were phenomenal (Arthur, 2004). ...

of them all, the Sumerian Gilgamesh. Its not that Blake copied anyone, but his poem tends to evoke some of the same feelings in a ...