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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...

History Mirrored in Literature

In five pages this research paper discusses how history is mirrored in literature as reflected in such works as 'Beowulf' and play...

Chaucer, Deceit and Medieval Honor

The Miller's Tale and the Pardoner's Tale from Chaucers' Canterbury Tales are compared in this paper to Beowulf and Sir Gawain and...

An Overview of the Epic Poem Beowulf

The writer of this paper first gives an overview of the poem Beowulf, which was written in Old English, and then relates it to con...

A Debate about the Nature of Man, Argued by Hamlet, Beowulf and Sir Gawain

The writer presents an imaginary debate among Hamlet, Sir Gawain and Beowulf on the nature of man, why he has been placed on earth...

'Beowulf' and the Grendel Character

In 5 pages this paper presents a character analysis of Grendel as featured in the epic 'Beowulf' and how he is intended to be repr...

Forrest Gump and the Epic Genre

Forrest gave us a clear view of the concepts of loyalty and honesty between friends regardless of the turns of circumstance or the...

Beowulf and a Contrast of Battles with Grendel, Grendel's Mother, and the Dragon

to his mother, he has been depicted as a solitary creature, not unlike the hombres in Sergio Leones "spaghetti" Westerns, who walk...

Medieval Women's Role in The Romance of Tristan and Beowulf

In five pages this paper examines the role of women in Medieval society in a literary analysis of The Romance of Tristan and Beowu...

'Beowulf' and the Importance of the Dragon, Grendel, and Grendel's Mother

In five pages this paper examines the various creatures of 'Beowulf' in an analysis of their importance. There are no other sourc...

Beowulf and Insights on Characterizations

In five pages this paper discusses the insights contained within the Medieval epic in terms of Grendel's death, his mother's react...

'Happy Warrior' as Embodied by Beowulf

In five pages this quote 'Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he that every man in arms should wish to be? It is the generous spirit,...

The Concept of Ambition as Reflected in Literature

In five pages the idea of ambition is discussed in an examination of such literary works as A Delicate Balance by Jose Armas, Balt...

Beowulf and Gilgamesh

In seven pages topics of general intent, good, evil, and heroism are related to the epic tales of 'Beowulf' and 'Epic of Gilgamesh...

Masculinity and Its Nature

This research paper offers a detailed examination of the characeristics of masculinity asdescribed in several literary works, whic...

Epic Poem Beowulf and the Heroic Code

In six pages this paper analyzes the epic Beowulf in terms of its interpretation of the heroic code both in characters and in deed...

Medieval Civilization and Christianity

In six pages Dante's 'Divine Comedy,' 'Beowulf,' 'Song of Roland,' and Augustine's 'Confessions' are examined in terms of gaining ...

Comparing and Contrasting Achilles and Beowulf

The writer compares and contrasts Achilles, a hero from Greek mythology, with Beowulf, the hero of the Old English epic poem. The ...

Medieval Literature and the Portrayals of Kingship

In seven pages this paper discusses how the relationship between warriors and their king is symbolically depicted as that of sons ...

Raffel's Beowulf and New Historicism

In five pages Raffel's interpretation of Beowulf is examined in an application of the New Historicism concept. Three sources are ...

Allegory, Philosophy, and Faith in Perelandra by C.S. Lewis

In four pages Lewis's text is examined in terms of its religious purpose with the argument presented that the Garden of Eden serve...

The Political Allegory Represented by 'The Plague' by Albert Camus

In a paper that contains five pages the fear represented by fascism and how this fear transforms individuals into followers are ex...

Prisoners Analyzed in Plato's 'Allegory of the Cave' in The Republic

In five pages an analysis evaluates the accuracy of Socrates' description of the cave's prisoners as 'like ourselves.' There are ...

How Shirley Jackson Employs Allegory in Her Tale, 'The Possibility of Evil'

or purchased by her ancestors. For example, she notes the rugs that her mother and her grandmother made in her house that was buil...

Comparison of Paul Gauguin's La Orana Maria and Johannes Vermeer's Allegory of the Faith

protrudes from the ceiling, perhaps signifying the heavens (Searle). Behind the woman is a tapestry which features the crucifixio...

The Illusionist as Myth

The God of the Waning Year is associated with the sacrificial victim, whose death was believed necessary in order for the earth to...

Northern California Myth

up there" (Rigsby). However, while David admits that the days of the pioneers are over, "like many myths," he supposes that ther...

American Immigration Paradoxes

will explore the ramifications of these paradoxes, focusing primarily on the experience of Puerto Rican immigrants. Silvia Pedra...

Barriers Between Readers and the Other

West, who defined the native American tribes as "savages"; and by so doing, made it possible to justify killing them (in self-defe...

Greek Mythology, Hesiod’s Five Ages of Man, and the Story of Zeus and Other Olympic Deities

period of blissful co-existence between gods and humans, when differences were few. A utopian time of eternal springtime, people ...