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Heroes Odysseus and Gilgamesh

a hero in strength and abilities, not in actions and deeds. With Enkidu, however, he finds a soul mate. He no longer seeks out the...

Byronic Hero Neo in The Matrix

his control, or often, the hero will choose this separation for himself. Neo lives in a chosen isolation, but he also chooses to f...

Homeric Heroes and the Epic of Gilgamesh

end of the epic. This is different from the Homeric hero Odysseus for we generally like this man right from the beginning. The god...

Hero in Vasilis Arvanitis by Stratis Myrivilis

working for the occupying Turks to anti-Turk resistance (Machin, 1998). Vasilis, similarly, changes his role, both in relation to ...

Bernard Gordon's 'Elia Kazan: Hero or Coward?'

were refusing to speak. They were not going to name any names of people who may have been, or were, communist sympathizers or comm...

Flawed Hero Victor Frankenstein

that he could not control it (Marcus 188). On the one hand, there are the critics who claim that Frankenstein had no...

American Hero Franklin Delano Roosevelt

private patrons leads; and they emphasized the interrelatedness of culture with all aspects of life, not the separateness of a rar...

Comparing the Main Characters and Dark Themes of Hawthorne's The Minister's Black Veil and Young Goodman Brown.

concealed his frame and face from onlookers by wearing a black cloak, as a symbol of a fearful secret between him and them" (Barna...

Comparing Homer's Heroes in 'The Iliad'

In this paper containing four pages Achilles and Hektor are compared and it is determined that while Hektor's tragedy is synonymou...

Fascinating Hero Ernest Hemingway

In eight pages Ernest Hemingway, the larger than life man and his works are considered in this exploration of heroism. Five sourc...

Gothic Hero Edgar Allan Poe in 'Ligeia' and 'The Fall of the House of Usher'

won, beating out a number of well-known short story writers. Poe needed money badly, and decided to embark on a side career as a s...

Cultural Hero Michael Jordan

In seven pages this paper examines the career and social achievements of NBA basketball superstar Michael Jordan. Eight sources a...

The Tragic Tragic Hero Aaron Burr

In this paper that contains 20 pages Aaron Burr is given the respect he has been too long been denied through a thoughtful examina...

David Phillips's 'No Heroes, No Villains, The Story of a Murder Trial'

This is a novel overview in 5 pages that explains how the significance of evidence collecting and the practice of criminal law is ...

Were Robespierre and Amin Heroes or Villains?

These two men and the reign of terror over which each presided are the focus of this research paper consisting of five pages in te...

Paul Robeson Hero Before His Time by Rebecca Larsen

he could no longer tolerate the outright prejudice. Robesons travels landed him in the Soviet Union, where there was no sign of t...

Childhood Heroes and Athletes

In five pages this research paper discusses the child idolatry of athletes and why this respect is sometimes misplaced in a consid...

Tragic Greek Heroes Oedipus and Prometheus

In eight pages these ancient Greek tragic protagonists featured in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus are ...

'Hero and Leander' by Christopher Marlowe

In five pages the influence Marlowe received from writers of ancient Greece and Rome are considered as reflected in this poetic ep...

Tragically Flawed Heroes in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

This paper contrasts and compares the tragic flaws of Achebe and Sophocles' protagonists in 5 pages. There are no other sources l...

David Remnick's King of the World Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero

an American Hero brings the world of boxing into a sharp focus of anticipated excitement that is the essence of the match. This m...

Was Huey P. Long a Villain or Hero?

In five pages the life of Huey P. Long is examined within the context of Glen Jeansonne's biography Messiah of the Masses Huey P....

Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

In five pages this essay summarizes and provides a review of this text by Joseph Campbell. Two sources are cited in the bibliogra...

1980s' Greatest American Hero Ronald Reagan

voice, Reagan began a career in radio broadcasting, but secretly hoped this avenue of work would somehow lead to the silver screen...

Tragic Hero in Electra by Euripides

In five pages Euripides' tragic protagonist is examined in an application of Aristotle's Greek tragedy formula. There are no othe...

The Tradition of Heroes in Literature

This paper discusses the elements necessary to creating a heroic character in literature. The author examines heroic protagonists...

Epic Heroes Gilgamesh and Hercules and Violence

In ten pages this paper discusses how violence is portrayed in the heroic epics of ancient Greece and Mesopotamia. Six sources ar...

Classic Literary Poets, Searchers, Lovers, and Heroes

In six pages this paper examines these character genres and how they occasionally have coincided or overlapped throughout literary...

Romantic Hero Sir Lancelot

without peer (Spivack and Lynne 95). Lancelot was originally introduced to readers in French poet Chretien de Troyes Lancelot or...

Tragic Hero and Sympathy for William Shakespeare's Othello

of sympathy it is first necessary to understand that the classification of "Othello" as a "tragedy" is, of course, not to be confu...