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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...

Relationships and Love in 'Porphyria's Lover' by Robert Browning and Othello by William Shakespeare

This paper contrasts and compares how relationships and love are thematically represented in Robert Browning's poem and William Sh...

Comparative Analysis of Juliet and Ophelia

and these women. As far as Ophelias true experience with Hamlet is concerned, the audience "can only speculate about the exact n...

Graham Greene's The Destructors and D.H. Lawrence's 'The Rocking Horse Winner'

world, in which society is restructuring itself after the devastation of the war - a devastation which T, at least, seems to feel ...

Paternal Loss in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

now he is praying; And now Ill dot. And so he goes to heaven; And so am I revenged" (Hamlet III iii). He stops, however, and truly...

Outsiders Heathcliff and Hamlet

supposedly goes insane and they think that he has no power, no part in all else that takes place within the kingdom. Hamlet has pu...

Character Comparison and Contrast of Laura in Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and Sophocles' Antigone

number and must join the rat race. Individuality is not prized and someone who has opinions, especially if that person is a woman,...

Analysis of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Sophocles' Oedipus

In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these works by Shakespeare and Sophocles in terms of tragic themes and iro...

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Capitalism

In five pages Miller's protagonist Willy Loman's life is compared with the American definition of capitalism and its tragic conseq...

Fiction Comparison of Toni Morrison and Ishmael Reed

In five pages The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison is compared with Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed in terms their very different tragic an...

Shakespearean Women in Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing

The ways in which William Shakespeare depicted women in these tragic and comic plays are contrasted and compared in eight pages. ...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet in Film

stunning performance as Ophelia and at the time she was not as well known as she is today. However, when Charlton Heston appears o...

Comparative Analysis of the Victimization of Protagonists Oroonoko and Heathcliff

Both of the primary mail characters are fundamentally powerless, as are the narrators of the stories. Ironically, a great deal of...

Heroic Comparison of Hector and Achilles in 'The Iliad' by Homer

In five pages this paper compares the heroes Hector and Achilles as presented in Homer's epic in an evaluation of whose heroism wa...

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 ...

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...

The Way in Which Sundiata and Beowulf Present Heroism

The writer compares and contrasts the Old English poem Beowulf with Sundiata, which is an African epic. The writer argues that whi...

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...

Comparative Analyisis of Classical and Modern Literary Heroes

almost all of them are loners. Even when they are surrounded by a large group of people, there is this inner stoicism, this inner ...

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 ...

Past and Present Hercules

In five pages this essay considers Hercules in an overview of his mythological life and compares the Greek version to the popular ...

A Comparison of the Song of Roland and Beowulf

The writer compares and analyzes the Song of Roland and Beowulf, two epic poems. The main focus of the paper is the death of the r...

Achilles and Odysseus and Their Mythic Journeys

This 5 page paper compares and contrasts the heroes Achilles and Odysseus, and their development as they move through their advent...

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....

Ancient Religions, Gothic Cathedrals and Romantic Heroes

Egyptians, whose fantastic death cult gave us some of the greatest monuments on earth. The Egyptians believed in an afterlife that...

Similarities and Differences between King Arthur and Beowulf

praise and... desire for glory" (McNary 528). Beowulf is strong, courageous and brave in combat, and likes nothing better than to...

Comparing Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Hamlet

in The Merchant of Venice proves to be quite willful, openly defiant of her Orthodox Jewish father Shylock in her elopement with t...

Odysseus and Don Quixote

The mad hero Before comparing the two heroes of each story, it helps to discuss the background and plot of each work....

WORKING CLASS HEROES AND BLACK PICKET FENCES: A COMPARISON

the every day people who live, work and form the community, from stay-at-home moms who mold their families, to fire-fighters, who ...

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...