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King Lear, Beowulf, the Concepts of Kingship and Hero's Downfall

In five pages these literary characters are contrasted and compared in terms of their deaths with the concept of kingship and what...

An Analysis of Heroism and the Journey in Star Wars

An eight page research paper considering the literary concept of the hero's journey in this classic science fiction film by direct...

Business World and 'A Hero's Journey'

In five pages this research paper applies Christopher Vogler's 'hero's journey' concepts to Fictions of Business by Robert Brawer....

The Hero's Journey of Achilles and Odysseus

Magician, and Warrior. During those times when we may not be able to relate to the character of a story, we can usually react to ...

John Gardner's Grendel and Epic Beowulf

oo well that here was the last of...

Things Fall Apart and the Death of a Hero

Okonkwo was like that, and the fact that his contemporaries in the village considered some of his traits excessive is communicated...

Francis Ford Coppola's Film The Godfather, Archetypes and the Hero's Journey

Furthermore, there are certain commonalties that run through the storylines of all epic writing. Examples of such include heroism,...

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...

Hero's Personality of Odysseus

In five pages Homer's protagonist Odysseus featured in 'The Odyssey' is examined in terms of his heroic personality attributes. F...

Tragic Hero's Journey in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and William Shakespeare's King Lear

In five pages this paper examines how the tragic hero's journey is thematically portrayed in these plays. Three sources are cited...

Comparative Analyisis of Classical and Modern Literary Heroes

almost all of them are loners. Even when they are surrounded by a large group of people, there is this inner stoicism, this inner ...

J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and the Decisions of the Hero

1997 to wild acclaim (J.K. Rowling b). The second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets appeared in 1998, Harry Potter and...

Robert Brawer's Fictions of Business Hero's Journey in the Business World

In five pages this research paper examines how the author illustrates principles of management through the use of classic literatu...

Hero’s Quest in the Film The Fisher King and in Epic of Gilgamesh

quest for the Holy Grail that were considered by filmmaker Terry Gilliam and screenwriter Richard LaGravenese in the 1991 movie Th...

The Hero’s Journey: Moses and Jesus

the hero receives the call to adventure, which he initially rejects before crossing the threshold into adventure. Next comes initi...

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...

“A Hero’s Journey”

interest in mythology to his exposure to remnants of that earlier history, his exposure to Buffalo Bills Wild West Show and to the...

Louis Riel

national-liberation leader."1 The author then notes a very intriguing point in that while none of these descriptions are entirely ...

The Hero’s Journey

sight of their original teaching passion, or the education system insists that teachers simply instruct, as though the children we...

Hero's Cycle and Lord of the Flies

This essay presents the argument that in William Golding's Lord of the Flies, the character of Simon is congruent with Joseph Camp...

Show Me a Hero by Lisa Belkin

the white classes living in the east side while black citizens were relegated to the west side because that was the only location ...

Hero in Vasilis Arvanitis by Stratis Myrivilis

working for the occupying Turks to anti-Turk resistance (Machin, 1998). Vasilis, similarly, changes his role, both in relation to ...

Prince Hamlet and Willy Loman in a Consideration of What Makes a Tragic Hero

condition involves the paradoxical feeling on the part of the spectator that what has happened could not have happened otherwise, ...

Aristotle's 'Tragic Hero' and Sophocles' Oedipus Rex

individual would grow up, kill his father, and marry his mother. In reality, few people would ever find themselves in such a circu...

Bernard Gordon's 'Elia Kazan: Hero or Coward?'

were refusing to speak. They were not going to name any names of people who may have been, or were, communist sympathizers or comm...

The Tragic Hero Antigone?

tragic hero. Creon, on the other hand, realized his mistake when Teiresias made his prophecy. He is forced to live, knowing that...

Hero or Fool 'Young Goodman Brown'

to be happening is that he feels he is risking his soul. If this is the case then a hero would emerge victorious in some way, havi...

Existential Hero Bartleby

Bartleby remains at the old address, still refusing to vacate the premises even when new tenants move in. The new renters come to...

Hannibal Lecter as Hero

a woman-suit out of women (using their skin)-the ultimate in objectification" (Vorndam). Lecter is initially contemptuous of Starl...

Heroes Beowulf and Hamlet

In five pages Joseph Campbell's definition of a hero is applied to Beowulf and Hamlet in a comparison and contrast of these two ep...