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Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht

spectator into the action, Brechts goal was to place the spectator outside the action as an observer, but one who is actively invo...

'Paradise Lost' by John Milton, Christianity, and Classics

very important fact when considering the relationship between the classics and Christianity in Miltons poem by stating the followi...

The Ramayana and Its Interpretation by R.K. Narayan

short stories many in which he dealt with the political and social issues associated with Indian independence, many in which he pr...

2000 Film Gladiator by Director Ridley Scott

Reeds final role) and is forced to compete in gladiator matches at the Coliseum to entertain the carnage-crazed Roman spectators. ...

Book of Job Exegesis

twenty-five hundred years. Many scholars date the time and place of the recording of Job to the age of the Babylonian Exile, which...

Enkidu and Gilgamesh

king, but not necessarily a good king. Such a man demands fear from his subjects, oppressing them and insisting on his selfish exp...

Omeros by Derek Walcott and Character Identity

ignorant about its history. He is also a simple fisherman. The conflict in the story predominately revolves around Achille and Hec...

English Literature and Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

an employee of the Company who has become erratic, and bring him home. In so doing, Marlow has to face his own "heart of darkness"...

The Theme of Identity in Derek Walcott's Omeros

the chariot that Hector bought. . . . Each row was a divan of furred leopardskin. . . . te...

Comparative Analysis of the Redcrosse Knight and Sir Gawain

this obvious beast and takes the challenge, severing the Green Knights head, who merely picks up his head, and informs Gawain that...

Man and the Creation of Fear and God

As for mankind, numbered are their days/ Whatever they achieve is but the wind!" (Epic of Gilgamesh 8). When Gilgameshs friend Enk...

Ancient Societies and Women in Sundiata and 'Beowulf'

himself was portrayed as the incarnate of evil, whose ravenous attacks on King Hrothgars subjects were nothing more than examples ...

Life and its Meaning Questioned

contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning." Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus. * Life is a tragedy fo...

'The Iliad' and 'Ramayana' Compared

for "The Story of Rama" chronicles the heroic saga of Sri Rama, who along with his three siblings Laksmana (or Lakshmana), Bharata...

Beowulf and the Time in Which It Takes Place

In the battle, the dragon emerges as the symbol of evil and consequently exists as the monster of this encounter" (King). In this ...

Classic Literature and Its Social Functions

all too suddenly succumbed to temptation and became the gatekeeper of Hell -- a place of consequence where one goes whose choices ...

'Jerusalem Delivered' by Torquato Tasso

the aid of Fortune herself as a guide, travel to the Fortunate Islands. There, they scale a mountain, fighting a dragon and a lion...

Rap and the Rap Culture

The writer discusses the connection between the Old English epic poem Beowulf and today's rap culture. The writer argues that alth...

John Milton/Paradise Lost

of the monarchy due to his support of the Commonwealth (John Milton). Married three times, he spent his later years dictating to h...

Wier/Tehano

is one that ties the two brothers together, although neither one of them realizes it. Each fears his own cowardice and has to ov...

An Analysis of the Graphic Portrayals of Violence in 'Saving Private Ryan'

period between September 1, 1939 (the date of Germanys invasion of Poland) and September 2, 1945 (the date of the Japanese surrend...

Scorsese/Gangs of New York

the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...

Gender in Beowulf

readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...

'Beowulf' and the Characterization of Grendel's Mother

In five pages this paper discusses the viewpoint of Grendel's mother as featured in the poetic epic 'Beowulf.' Four sources are c...

Themes and Messages in The Ramayana and The Aeneid

In five pages these epics are contrasted and compared in terms of the similarities and differences in their themes and messages. ...

3 Interpretations of Sir Gawain

Gawain and the Green Knights text persona is what separates the character from the other two representations. Would you grant me ...

War as Portrayed in The Ramayana

In four pages this paper examines how violence and war are portrayed in such Indian classical epics as The Ramayana. Three source...

The Ramayana Version by R.K. Narayana

elicited. Narayanas rendition of "The Narayana" thus fits Richmans contention that specific historical factors play a role in sha...

Comparing Poems about War to Beowulf

it is essentially the duty of this narrator. Beowulf is a man who sees his duty as that which involves risking his life. He goes...

Film Gone With the Wind and Black Representation

darkies" (Leab 99). Focusing on the Atlanta plantation of Gerald and Ellen OHara, Gone With the Wind represented life for souther...