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his murderous attacks upon Hrothgars sleeping warriors. Hrothgar makes it clear that Beowulfs obligation is based not on ties of ...

voracious sexual appetites by raping young village girls and claiming other mens wives as his own conquests on their wedding night...

Aruru to create a man mighty enough to subdue him if necessary: "It was you, Aruru, who created mankind, now create a zikru to i...

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

king also ordered killed. They were subsequently left to die of exposure and were discovered by a she-wolf. Discovered by the king...

a man who has a prophecy following him, and he is a man who is relatively clueless about what is going on. He inadvertently kills ...

boasts of his strength and courage, believing those alone are the lone criteria by which a hero is judged. The gods intervene to ...

of the monarchy due to his support of the Commonwealth (John Milton). Married three times, he spent his later years dictating to h...

he will gild her horns as part of the sacrifice (Homer). Such sacrifices were meant as "gifts" to the gods, which were designed to...

the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...

without specifically worrying about success or failure, "they cannot be stained by action" (Harrison, 1996). Hearing this, Arjuna ...

readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...

"behold the beauty of another character....with...vivacity....behold in another the expression of a love so high that it assures i...

is one that ties the two brothers together, although neither one of them realizes it. Each fears his own cowardice and has to ov...

old families and the nouveau riche, who had made their fortunes in more recent years" (Books and Writers). For the most part this ...

is wildly jealous of Elizabeth (Miller, 2003). Abigail is also the leader of the towns young women, and she and her friends were...

(2000) says that Mother Theresa is a good role model. Yet, there are many others who may be considered good role models. Mendelsoh...

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...

destroy Sigurd. She says that she has a favor to ask and makes the king promise that he will keep his word. He does, and asks her ...

line "yet this is the shepherd of the city, wise, comely and resolute" points up the difference in the qualities that the king sho...

In this introduction to the character of Titus it is obvious that he is well regarded and that he has a reputation of being a nobl...

they can stop the men from going off to war and would ultimately bring some peace. The premise of the story is a tragic one, in th...

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 ...

university-trained expert in his field. And yet he finds that intellectual learning is not very important in this world, whats nee...

Mitchells translation, Mark Jarman argues that Gilgamesh enlightens the modern reader as to what the ancient Mesopotamians valued ...

Associates "reported that it expects to record $200 million in bad debt expense in the fourth quarter due to an increase in self-p...

"Since this Britain was built by this baron great, / Bold boys bred there, in broils delighting, / That did their day many a deed ...

those standards of conduct which generations before World War I appeared to accept as adequate and perfectly satisfactory" (Meyers...

Humbaba the Terrible. Enkidu has encountered Humbaba and continues to try to dissuade Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh is stubborn and listens...