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Self-Realization and the Hero’s Quest in ‘Beowulf,’ ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,’ and ‘Everyman’

the heros quest is self-realization, with the glory being more internal than external, the awakening of inner strength and self-kn...

Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

African author Chinua Achebe argues that the extended metaphor that Conrad uses to relate his principal theme is founded on the vi...

The Principles of Goleman’s “Emotional Intelligence” Applied to “The Little Prince”

families, in career and the workplace, for health and contentment" (Wilson). People who have and use emotional intelligence gener...

The Ambition of Lady Macbeth

ignore Lady Macbeths continual rants and her role in all of it. Just as the man who is "henpecked" claims that his wife drives him...

The Environment, Water, and Tradeoffs Over Time

arrogantly contended that there should be no peaceful coexistence between man and nature. Instead, nature must be controlled to b...

Death of Ivan Ilych and The Iliad

the woman to his commander, but withdraws from the battlefield, refusing to fight in retaliation for the humiliation imposed upon ...

One Classic Argument from The Crito

in a different time and place and almost seems like a fairy tale. Yet, if one were to consider that Socrates was a part of a cultu...

Weakened Human Interaction and Technology

This paper discusses the views of Anna Akbari and Andrew Sullivan pertaining to the issue of how technology has altered the nature...

Crimes Against Medicare

The Office of Inspector General, Department of Health & Human Services publishes several reports each year in addition to giving t...

Human Nature in Gulliver's Travels

This 6 page paper gives an overview of the story Gulliver's Travels. This paper includes human nature and corruption as theme with...

"Troy" (2004) and Homer's Iliad

This essay discusses Homer's ancient classic epic, The Iliad, and the film Troy (2004, directed by William Petersen), indicating ...

Twentieth Century Music, Various Aspects

This research paper/essay consists of two parts. The first half of the paper pertains to three works in which the composer turned ...

Bernard & Krieger/Knowledge & Power

removed, "the phenomena will no longer appear" (Bernard 55). As this illustrates, Bernards goal in his research was integrate the ...

Works of Italian Literature 'I Vicere,' 'Gli Indifferenti,' and 'Il Giorno della Civetta' Analyzed

a new way of looking at the world. It is also a new way for a student to look at Italian history, as represented in Federico de R...

Homosexuality in Le Fanu's Carmilla and Wilde's Dorian Gray

the everyday eye, Dorian does not seem to age a day, nor does his beauty fade. There are several indications of a homosexual nat...

Society, the Individual, and Sociology

themselves. It is in adjusting to change that people lose their ground. Meaning and purpose in life is lost. Thus, clinical depres...

Minor Characters in Willa Cather's The Professor's House and William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

story (Sparknotes). Her husband is Roskus, a man who suffers greatly from rheumatism, a condition that will kill him. T.P. is...

Analyzing the Tragedy Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

professor who charts his own fateful course. He dreams of securing the knowledge which would make eternal mortal life possible, a...

Applying the Literary Lessons of E.M. Forster and Henry David Thoreau

This paper examines the importance of being able to apply the teachings found in great literary works such as those of Thoreau and...

Morality in Bleak House by Charles Dickens and Light in August by William Faulkner

only to make the reader see. A novelist of course is supposed to show and not tell. Through showing the reader the story, a moral ...

Relationships in Literature and 4 Views

In an essay consisting of 5 pages the ways in which the narrative framework develops the love and hate that are a part of male and...

Comparison of Rotary Spokes by Fiona Cooper and Burn Marks by Sara Paretsky

In eight pages this essay compares and contrasts these literary works. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Symbolism as it Appears in A Tale of Two Cities

This Dickens work is discussed in respect to the role that symbolism plays. This literary technique is highlighted in the context ...

Gender and Race Issues in 19th Century Literature

passionately involved in the struggles of minorities and minority issues, Childs biographer, Carolyn Karcher (1998), readily admi...

3 Perspectives on London

In five pages this paper examines three viewpoints of London as revealed in such literary works as Howard's End by E.M. Forster, S...

Anton Chekhov's 'Three Sisters'

The theme, plot, and style of this work is considered in 10 pages as well as presenting an examination into Aristotle's theories a...

Water Natural Symbolism in The Seaside Houses and Goodbye, My Brother by John Cheever

In seven pages the power of the water symbolism employed by John Cheever in these two literary works is analyzed. There are no ot...

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, and Presentations of Race

In six pages this paper discusses how race is presented in these African American literary works. There are no other sources cite...

Historic British Literary Heroes

imaginations. In examining the changing role of the hero in English Literature, five British literary periods will be examined. F...

Golden Boy by Clifford Odets

has some boxing success, the protagonist Joe Bonaparte hurts his hands enough that he can no longer play the violin. In this work...