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This essay considers Gilgamesh, Candide and Metamorphosis, and how these three classics of literature expressed the theme of betra...
Using examples from literature and from world events, this essay identifies some of the heroes everyone knows and those nobody kno...
the weak and defender of his territory and do whatever he must in the name of survival. A ravenous Odysseus is described by Homer...
In three pages this paper examines Turnus and Aeneas as they represent the Roman concept of heroic ideals depicted in The Aeneid b...
In 8 pages this paper examines the concept of the tragic hero in a comparison of King Lear by William Shakespeare and Sophocles' O...
In eight pages this paper evaluates this biography within a historical context. There are no other sources listed in the bibliogr...
In five pages these epic war tales are examined in a heroic contrast and comparison of Roland and Achilles. Three sources are cit...
In four pages the concept of the hero's journey as it manifest itself in these classical works of literature is examined. There i...
An eight page research paper considering the literary concept of the hero's journey in this classic science fiction film by direct...
The writer compares and contrasts the Old English poem Beowulf with Sundiata, which is an African epic. The writer argues that whi...
In five pages this paper argues that for readers of the 20th century Creon and Antigone appear more like victims than heroes in th...
The writer argues that Beowulf can be seen as an archetype of the ideal hero, and that his deeds have come to be considered as a m...
In seven pages these works by Stephen Crane and Homer are examined within the context of the tragic hero and his combat motives. ...
In 5 pages this paper examines Cervantes' heroic protagonist and how defies the cynics in his depiction of him. There are 7 sourc...
theater itself, and his own background upon the stage. Hamlet plays the clown with the other actors who arrive to perform ...
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...
In five pages these heroic protagonists are compared in terms of their differences and how they reflect the authors' quite differe...
into insanity, which becomes her only way she can avoid the domination that threatens to totally suffocate her individuality. In h...
in any real noble cause, he quickly succumbs to the realities that surround him, the bullets and the danger. This man has taken i...
obviously keenly intelligent, and it is clear that, if he applied himself, he could have achieved any goal to which he might have ...
turbulent in respect to British history ("Angelcynn" PG). It was a time when England was first created, and the time of King Arth...
slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...
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)...
of creation are vastly different" (Anonymous Selected Portions of the "Enuma Elish" enumaeli.htm). "The six days of creation i...
Mitchells translation, Mark Jarman argues that Gilgamesh enlightens the modern reader as to what the ancient Mesopotamians valued ...
In five pages the flood and creation tales are among the similarities discussed in a consideration of these three great works of l...
In five pages these stories are contrasted and compared in terms of their presentation of magical creatures and gods. There are n...
cultures. In addition, the kind of difficulties and trials faced by different ancient communities will also tend to be similar. On...
have plans for Enkidu and so a Priestess tames Enkidu and convinces him to go with her to meet Gilgamesh in Uruk. Though Enkidu ha...
...preserve me!"(Tablet IX, Column I, 3-12). This forces him to begin to consider his own mortality, and for the first tim...