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Heroic Dante and Sir Gawain

In five pages this paper examines how the concept of hero is defined and how both Dante in The Inferno and Sir Gawain in Sir Gawai...

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...

Heroic Greek Definition in 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' of Homer

In seven pages the classical Greek definition of hero as revealed in the epic poems of Homer is discussed....

17th Century Heroic Scientists

assumptions came to predominate Western cultural thought (Olson 18). Prior to this era, during the medieval period, the proper a...

Heroic Myth in Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

In 7 pages this paper applies Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell to the novel Prisoner of Azkaban in an analysis of how...

Heroic Storyteller Huck Finn

he was gone he come back and put his head in again, and told me to mind about that school, because he was going to lay for me and ...

Heroic Old Man in The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

In five pages the heroism of the old sailor Santiago is examined within the context of Hemingway's short novel. Seven sources are...

William Shakespeare's Tragic Heroic Protagonist Othello

the consuls, raised and met, / Are at the Dukes already. You have been hotly calld for, / When, being not at your lodging to be fo...

Le Chambon's Heroic People and Pastor Andre Trocme

In five pages the struggles of these villagers and their French Protestant minister as chronicled in Lest Innocent Blood be Shed b...

Heroic Peter Tchaikovsky

In five pages this research paper discusses Peter Tchaikovsky's life, music, and the influence exerted by his homosexuality. Four...

Heroic or Villainous Tchaikovsky?

In eleven pages this paper critically analyzes Tchaikovsky through Marxism, feminism, and Freudian perspectives to support the arg...

Heroic Natty in Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

In three pages this paper examines the American values represented by the protagonist of James Fenimore Cooper's novel. Two sourc...

Heroic Characterization of Satan in 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton

In six pages this paper argues that Satan is heroically depicted in 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton. There are no other sources li...

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...

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...

'Beowulf' and Its Representation of Heroic and Christian Traditions

a rather powerful enemy. Thus, one sees heroic feats on either end, but also, there is Christian love and the love of a parent tha...

'The Epic of Gilgamesh' Heroic Analysis

which features the exploits of a heroic protagonist, is used. Although it was Homer who popularized this literary form with his p...

An Analysis of Mansfield's 'Miss Brill'

This paper provides an analysis of this short story in terms of theme, symbolism, and character development. This four page paper ...

Moby Dick by Herman Melville and Symbolism Associated with the Whale

curiosity. Then the wild and distant seas where he rolled his island bulk; the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale; these...

Food's Anthropological Symbolism

and societies (Counihan, 1997). This is evidenced in both food habits and human behaviors (Counihan, 1997). More specifi...

Substance and Symbolism of the African Mask

reminiscent of African culture as a whole is to miss the point of the masks intent. There are a variety of masks and they are mean...

'The Rocking Horse Winner' by D.H. Lawrence

everywhere, and therefore no one spoke it" (Lawrence). And, when money appeared, through the efforts of the boy, brining relief it...

Feminist Elements in Bradley's Mists of Avalon

Marion Zimmer Bradley viewed the legend with a historians eye. The time period of King Arthur supposedly took place at the time wh...

Nelle Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird

and illustrating that we are all a curious mix of devil and divine. During the 1930s, Lee illustrates the tensions that existed be...

Ursula K. LeGuin's A Wizard of Earthsea

would be punished and powerfully dismissed from the realm of wizards. This is based on the assumption that they "knew better" and ...

Harold Pinter's The Caretaker

down and out derelict who calls himself Jenkins. However, his real name as they find out, is Davies. Aston, appearing to have a co...

Abortion and 'Hills Like White Elephants' by Ernest Hemingway

they write: attempting to arrive at some truth about a topic. In Hemingways case, a good argument can be made for his attempt to u...

Sex and William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

is referring to the banter that Beatrice and Benedick engage in every time they meet. This type of banter is prevalent throughout ...

Position Paper on Religious Symbolism in 'Rappaccini's Daughter'

symbolistic, human type greenhouse. That the girl is as rare a beauty as any of the doctors flowers, is evident when Giovanni, a s...

Ursula K. LeGuin's The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

is forced to live in darkness. The child, the reader is told, is about nine or ten years old, lives on a half bowl of cornmeal a...