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Spectator in Alfred Hitchcock's Film Rear Window

action shot at a car race. To rely on an old clich?, he is "bored to tears." He spends most of his convalescent time sitting at th...

Past and Present Definitions of Hero

rap artists came to be regarded as heroes by many. With the tragic events of September 11, 2001, however, we have once again com...

Lord Byron George Gordon and His Byronic Hero Creation

makes it clear that he considered the ideal life to be of adventure and lofty purpose. In the preface to his first two cantos f...

Hamlet as a Reflection of Past and Present Times

is murdered, his mother Queen Gertrude remarries Hamlet Sr.s brother Claudius only three months after her husbands slaying, and Ha...

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 ...

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...

Shakespeare's Henry V as a Virtuous Hero

plot. There is little else that constitutes the plot other than Henry and his brilliant ability to dominate every situation. The...

Similarities and Differences between King Arthur and Beowulf

praise and... desire for glory" (McNary 528). Beowulf is strong, courageous and brave in combat, and likes nothing better than to...

Tragic Hero and Sympathy for William Shakespeare's Othello

of sympathy it is first necessary to understand that the classification of "Othello" as a "tragedy" is, of course, not to be confu...

John Guare's Landscape of the Body

killed, Betty gets involved in a con game run by a transvestite named Raulito and takes the Rosalies place as a porno queen. Bert,...

Aristotle's Concept of the Tragic Hero Applied to Hamlet

remind the audience that because of his noble status, he must avenge his fathers murder not only for himself but also for the Dani...

Flawed Hero Victor Frankenstein

that he could not control it (Marcus 188). On the one hand, there are the critics who claim that Frankenstein had no...

Heroes and Ernest Hemingway

series of misfortunes, but the hero endures, because it is this constant facing of death that defines life. The code hero makes ...

American Hero Franklin Delano Roosevelt

private patrons leads; and they emphasized the interrelatedness of culture with all aspects of life, not the separateness of a rar...

The Heroism of Beowulf

turbulent in respect to British history ("Angelcynn" PG). It was a time when England was first created, and the time of King Arth...

Odysseus and Don Quixote

The mad hero Before comparing the two heroes of each story, it helps to discuss the background and plot of each work....

Aristotle's Definition of a 'Tragic Hero' and the Deviation of William Shakespeare in His Play Othello

not apply. First, the tragic hero is supposed to be a combination of good and bad traits. Othello is a Moorish commander who has...

Character Sketch of Othello

of all, it establishes his character as a nobility in his own right, as he is descended from royalty. Furthermore, Othellos simple...

Code Hero in Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises

story revolves around an American news correspondent, Jake Barnes, who lives and works in Europe, as well as his assorted friends"...

Concept of Heroism and Heroes Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes and Aeneid by Virgil

we have a man who is essentially being tossed with the tides. He is not nearly as determined or as confident as Odysseus. This is ...

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...

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...

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...

Characterization of the Lonely Hero in T.S. Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' and Thomas Mann's Death in Venice

the stern discipline of an active career" and these characteristics "had taken over the office of modeling these features. Behind ...

Athena's Selective Assistance to Heroes

(Pallas Athena, Goddess Of Wisdom). Mans first instinct is to provide for his - or her - own preservation, to tend to his...

Can Willy Loman, Hamlet, and Oedipus Be Considered Tragic Heroes?

His pride, which leads him to attempt to save Thebes from a devastating plague by exposing the murderer of his predecessor, King L...

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and its Tragic Hero Willy Loman

a tragic character as he remembers events from his past and why things went wrong. Through this process, he seems to be losing tou...

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...