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Second U.S. President John Adams

a transformational leader. According to Burns, Burns, transformational leaders are change agents, they take more risks than others...

Heroic Moses

Philosophy "Hero" as used by Campbell (1990) is androgynous, and he underscores this fact by using the pronouns "he" and "s...

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...

Beloved Dismemberment in Poetry

particular woman but does not possess her. Another may clearly see that the woman he describes is his. Regardless, however, of whe...

Ernest Hemingway's 'Code Hero'

hero may have incredible moral fiber, but have a tendency to love women he can never have. Tragic flaws, if one looks at any story...

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare and the Character of Brutus

assassination not as a betrayal of his friend and leader, but as "a chivalric defender of national honor" (Bloom 123). He perceiv...

Tragic Hero Assessment of John Proctor as Portrayed in the 1996 Film Version of Arthur Miller's The Crucible

In five pages this character analysis of John Proctor and whether or not he was portrayed as a tragic hero in Arthur Miller's 1996...

Achilles and Odysseus in A Modern Comparison

In this paper of six pages a broad comparison of thes classic heroes considers how they would fare in the contemporary world. The...

Epic Hero Transformation in Greek Literature

In six pages this paper examines the transformation of the epic hero in ancient Greek literary works such as Euripides' Medea, Sop...

Heroic Odysseus

In five pages this paper discusses how the classical hero definition applies to Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey. There are no ot...

Okonkwo was to Blame in Things Fall Apart by Achebe

In a paper consisting of five pages an assessment regarding Okonkwo's responsibility for his own tragedy is discussed through an e...

Tragic Hero King Lear

Lear," Lear chooses the love and respect of his children as the highest good, and so can only suffer from loss of their love and r...

Walker, Pearson, Frankl, Miller, and Fromm on Identity and Meaning

In 5 pages these 20th century writers and thinkers are examined regarding their interpretations of identity and life's meaning in ...

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...

Overview of the Battle of New Orleans

troops and frontier riflemen under Jackson had inflicted "appalling casualties on the British line," killing or wounding over two ...

Morality and Mortality in Hamlet and Achilles

In this paper consisting of nine pages the ways in which concepts of morality contributed to the deaths of these tragic heroes is ...

Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell and American Society

In 7 pages the hero mythology is applied to the society of the United States in a consideration of 3 concepts from The Power of My...

Shakespeare and Sophocles, Tragedy, and Heroism

In 8 pages this paper examines the concept of the tragic hero in a comparison of King Lear by William Shakespeare and Sophocles' O...

Poetry of Homer and Heroism in 'The Odyssey' and 'The Iliad'

the weak and defender of his territory and do whatever he must in the name of survival. A ravenous Odysseus is described by Homer...

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...

Motifs of Ancient Greek Literature and Superman

This essay consists of seven pages and presents the argument that the motifs in the contemporary Superman stories are much like th...

Heroic Native American Paul Bernal

In four pages this historical Native American hero is discussed as he is portrayed in [The] Taos Indians and the Battle for Blue L...

William Shakespeare's Tragic Hero Hamlet

In nine pages this paper analyzes the tragic hero aspects of Hamlet's character in a consideration that also includes Shakespeare'...

Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare and the Tragic Hero Marcus Brutus

contradictions of his character. Certainly, Brutus is strong. Even his name conveys strength. He is idealistic, and at least in...

Character Comparisons in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing II

becomes more and more obvious. Their words, which appear to be that demonstrating disdain, are words spouted by lovers who are con...

Women in Much Ado About Nothing and Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

In ten pages this paper discusses how the traditional and nontraditional roles of women are represented in Hero and Bianca, and Be...

Tragic Hero Exemplified by William Shakespeare's Othello

This paper discusses why Shakespeare's protagonist sufficiently qualifies as being a tragic hero in a consideration of the charact...

Lewis Puller, Jr.'s Autobiography Fortunate Son

In five pages this paper considers the autobiography of a disabled veteran of the Vietnam War and son of a Second World War hero i...

Odysseus and Achilles

In this paper of five pages two classical heroes are contrasted in terms of the older and noble Odysseus and the young and volatil...

Were the Vikings a Constructive or Destructive Force?

traced back to the rather lurid sensationalism of ecclesiastical writers of that period (Magnusson 10). Since monasteries were fre...