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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

see that Harry is not perfect because he is not filled with self confidence, nor is he incredibly knowledgeable about his gifts of...

John Proctor, a Tragic Hero

complete madness, until at last Elizabeth Proctor, who is completely innocent, is charged with being a witch (Miller, 1952). Not s...

Comparative Analysis of Oedipus and Willy Loman as They Relate to Aristotle’s Definition of a Tragic Hero

plague wreaks death and despair onto the Theban people, Oedipus pride motivates him to make a deal whereby he reveals the identity...

Heroes: Mary Cassatt

in the city in the midst of the excitement (Mary Cassatt biography). When she first arrived in Paris, she exhibited her work at ...

Cinema and Heroes

typically be defined as a teacher, lawyer, politician, farmer, or family man who represents American ideas relative to collective...

17th Century Heroic Scientists

assumptions came to predominate Western cultural thought (Olson 18). Prior to this era, during the medieval period, the proper a...

Tragic Figure of Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

In 5 pages the concept of tragic hero as defined by Aristotle is examined within th context of the novel by Gustave Flaubert and c...

Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days Compared

In five pages the heroes in these classic works are contrasted and compared. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

King Arthur and Classic Heroism

In five pages the classical hero is examined in a comparative analysis of the similarities and differences that exist between King...

Interchangeability of Homer's Heroic Hektor

In six pages this character analysis of Hektor in 'The Iliad' by Homer reveals how he is a hero who also happens to be human and h...

Myth or Archetype of the Hero

These "myths" satisfy our "hunger for community." The hero embodies the values of a community. May writes: The myth of the home...

Tragic Heroes Prince Hamlet and Willy Loman

In six pages this paper examines the tragic heroes represented by William Shakespeare's title protagonist Hamlet and Willy Loman i...

Harry Potter's Adult World

In 6 pages this paper examines the very adult quest of a hero in the Harry Potter book series by J.K. Rowling. Eight sources are ...

Folk Legends and Outlaws

In five pages this paper considers what is meant by outlaw heroes in a discussion of the legends that feature them. Eight sources...

Why Hamlet Would Have Been Loved by Aristotle

In six pages Hamlet, his mother Gertrude and stepfather Claudius are analyzed within the criteria Aristotle established regarding ...

A Consideration of Romeo and Juliet as Tragic Heroes

This paper analyzes these classic characters, noting the traits that qualify them as tragic heroes. This paper has five pages and...

Heroism and Sports

that no two people define heroism in just the same way. Merriam-Webster defines a hero as a person who is admired for his achieve...

All My Sons and Death of a Salesman

sons leads him to raise them as privileged beings that deserve having everything handed to them, simply by virtue of who they are....

Hector of Troy

but also by the fact that he is the king, and his people protect him rather than urging him onto the front lines as they might a y...

James Longstreet and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

well he might be, since three of his children died that winter of a fever, within a week of one another (Shaara). He is a good sol...

Sensitive Heroes in Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

In six pages the sensitive heroes Stephen Daedalus in Joyce's Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man and Marlow in Conrad's Heart of...

Heroes in Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and A Farewell to Arms

In eight pages this paper examines the code hero of Ernest Hemingway in the characterizations of Robert Jordan and Frederic Henry....

The Tragic Hero Okonkwo in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

This essay consisting of four pages considers how the protagonist satisfies the tragic hero criteria as defined by Aristotle offer...

Protagonist Cyrano De Bergerac

In three pages this persuasive and personal essay examines the reasons why this protagonist qualifies as a hero. There is no bibl...

Louis-Ferdinand Celine's 'Journey To The End Of The Night'

In 4 pages, this paper argues that the main character Bardamu is representative of an anti-hero as well as an autobiographical por...

Heroes, War, and Rebellion in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

In seven pages these two works are contrasted and compared regarded the differing perspectives on heroes, rebellion, and war each ...

Milkman Dead as a Classic Hero in Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

This 6 page paper argues that Milkman Dead, a character in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, can be described as a classic hero. Th...

Darl as a Tragic Hero in As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

The entire story of the Bundren family is tragic with its tale of poverty in the South and a family whose members are so caught up...

Bildungsroman or Coming of Age in The Reivers by William Faulkner

This paper examines how the Bildungsroman or coming of age technique is employed by William Faulkner in the portrayal of his 11 ye...

The Tragic Hero Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In a paper consisting of four pages the ways in which Willy Loman and his struggles represent the definitive tragic hero are explo...