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Essays 421 - 450
This paper examines the power by women in ancient Hebrew and Greek societies as represented by Rebekah in the Old Testament and Na...
individual stories into the tapestry that became his famous epics. He did not create the stories; they had come from hundreds of y...
In six pages this paper analyzes the epic Beowulf in terms of its interpretation of the heroic code both in characters and in deed...
quoted as saying: "Achilles, valiant though you be, you shall not thus outwit me. You shall not overreach and you shall not persua...
emphatically Christian as in a tone mildly so" (125). John Niles has written that "Attempts to show a specific correlation betw...
In five pages this paper discusses Gone with the Wind in an analysis of its epic film production. Four sources are cited in the b...
to his mother, he has been depicted as a solitary creature, not unlike the hombres in Sergio Leones "spaghetti" Westerns, who walk...
In eight pages this paper analyzes 'The Iliad' in a consideration of the relationships between males and females and humans and go...
Two characters from each of Homer's epics are compared in five pages in order to ascertain which is the most heroic of the charact...
In twn pages this paper discusses the symbolic significance of references to the color green in the Medieval epic 'Sir Gawain and ...
In five pages the difficult decisions Aeneas had to make in Vergil's epic 'Aeneid' are explored. There are 3 sources cited in th...
In five pages this paper examines the legendary status of the Beowulf epic. There are no other sources listed....
leader, Hector (son of King Priam), he kills in single combat. The poem closes as Achilles surrenders the corpse of Hector to Pria...
King Arthur and his knights of the round table. Regardless of the permutation in which the story appears, it always carries with ...
In four pages the conformity or nonconformity of Coleridge's prose in this poem is compared with the sonnet's and epic poem's trad...
The mad hero Before comparing the two heroes of each story, it helps to discuss the background and plot of each work....
noble role in society, and reflects his attributes and responsibilities. First, there is the pearl, symbolic of natural perfectio...
into marriage, religion/gods, revenge, rituals, and reputation. Marriage Clearly Ulysses story involves the condition of marria...
This essay consists of seven pages and presents the argument that the motifs in the contemporary Superman stories are much like th...
In a paper consisting of four pages the ways in which Pope mocks feuding families, the ancient Greek epic, and the aristocracy wit...
In five pages this paper examines this revolutionary price that traces the metaphorically hellish journey of the narrator. Seven ...
In five pages these epic war tales are examined in a heroic contrast and comparison of Roland and Achilles. Three sources are cit...
In three pages this paper discusses an epic in terms of characteristics and how thee are expressed in literature and on film in a ...
look at the example of Odysseuss wife Penelope. This queen is pictured as not only being desirable, but she is also pictured as be...
In five pages this argumentative paper analyzes the 1997 epic film by director James Cameron based upon its infamous 1912 sinking....
An eight page research paper considering the literary concept of the hero's journey in this classic science fiction film by direct...
In seven pages with a Roman numeral outline of one page also included this paper analyzes how symbolism is used to thematically po...
bow rang death as he shot his arrow in the midst of them. First he smote their mules and their hounds, but presently he aimed his ...
on Mount Olympus, where the gods lived. As the Iliad opens, the Trojan War has actually been going on for nine years, but the figh...
In five pages Homer's poetic epic is examined in a consideration of the significance of the armor worn by Achilles and the effects...