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Questions About God

his book, Does God Exist God: The Oldest Question, that yes, God does exist 2000). OMalley seems to be addressing his comments to ...

Characters and Structure of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

with what is purported to be the ghost of his father. It is this ghostly confrontation that also serves as the plays trigger scen...

Robert Jordan as a 'Hemingway Code Hero' in For Whom the Bell Tolls

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

Contemporary Culture and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

have been a devil, cleverly taking the shape of his father in order to lure him into committing a sinful act. Basically, Hamlet ...

Hamlet and Historic Literary Figures in Film

is not overly sad that he is gone. Finding herself in yet another situation, she is making the best of it. She realizes that to be...

Tragic Hero Othello

confidant. Of course, the tragedy is, Iagos intent is to destroy Othello. Secondly, the tragic hero holds fast to his ideas and ...

Paternal Loss in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

now he is praying; And now Ill dot. And so he goes to heaven; And so am I revenged" (Hamlet III iii). He stops, however, and truly...

Spying and Eavesdropping in the Works of William Shakespeare

readily recognized as nothing more than lies. In the story Measure for Measure, Shakespeare employs the use of spying/eav...

Stage and Screen Adaptations of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

identity. It is interesting to note that as he pulls on his "cloak of madness" that his true intellect becomes completely clouded ...

Hamlet, Romeo, and Responsibility of the Individual

all thoughts of Rosaline in favor of his new love, Juliet. This rashness is further exemplified in the famous balcony scene, which...

Revenge Theme in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

violence unless he is propelled by the heat of passion. From the beginning of the play, Hamlet has doubts concerning the morali...

A Comparison of Two Christian Tragedies

representative of the many generations of Church representatives that have pummeled the Ojibwe with its Christian doctrine. Endri...

Socrates and Odysseus

is less important than the conversation which takes place, and since the two individuals are from periods in Greek history several...

Ed Siegel's Where are the Heroes

the apparent violence of the game. In these regards we see many things that mankind strives for. We, as Americans, are powerful ...

Argument that Hamlet Was Not a Victim of Insanity

he is perfectly sane when he says that he is going to act insane in order to get revenge upon Claudius (Hamlet - Insane or Not?). ...

Queen Gertrude's Guilt in William Shakespeare's Hamlet

may wish to add that Claudius and Gertrude both attempt to find out what is bothering Hamlet, which only serves to make it more pl...

Odysseus, Hamlet, and the Supernatural

note his passion for such in the following lines when Hamlet responds to the facts presented by the ghost: "Haste me to knowt, tha...

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...

Temptation in the Works of William Shakespeare

possibility that Desdemona is cheating on him, and in domino fashion this suspicion turns to jealousy, hurt, anger, rage, and even...

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...

Tragic Hero Represented by Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

the span of a day comes face-to-face with the realization that the American Dream has become a nightmare of his own making, that t...

Heroic Moses

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

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...

Analysis of Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

they are also alike in that there are ties of friendship and devotion between the various characters that threaten the pairings as...

Bard's Personality as Reflected in His Plays

were specifically constructed to entertain royalty, it was the impassioned actions of his characters that leave little doubt that ...

Hero or Antihero Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

may very well lie in the study of some of the most earliest of heroes from the texts of Homer and Plato. By far one of the most en...

'Hemingway Hero' in A Farewell to Arms

and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring" (Hemingway 13). There is little said about Fre...

Second U.S. President John Adams

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

We'll Always Have Paris

The writer analyzes the 1942 classic film Casablanca, and argues that Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, is the archetypal re...

Is Hamlet Admirable or Despicable?

Hamlet on the castles parapet. The ghost implores Hamlet to enact revenge for his "most unnatural murder" (Act I, scene V, line 25...