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In five pages this research paper contrasts and compares Shakespeare's tragedy with the epic by Homer. Five sources are cited in ...
In five pages Homer's poetic epic is examined in a consideration of the significance of the armor worn by Achilles and the effects...
In seven pages with a Roman numeral outline of one page also included this paper analyzes how symbolism is used to thematically po...
bow rang death as he shot his arrow in the midst of them. First he smote their mules and their hounds, but presently he aimed his ...
on Mount Olympus, where the gods lived. As the Iliad opens, the Trojan War has actually been going on for nine years, but the figh...
look at the example of Odysseuss wife Penelope. This queen is pictured as not only being desirable, but she is also pictured as be...
quoted as saying: "Achilles, valiant though you be, you shall not thus outwit me. You shall not overreach and you shall not persua...
In twn pages this paper discusses the symbolic significance of references to the color green in the Medieval epic 'Sir Gawain and ...
In five pages the influence Marlowe received from writers of ancient Greece and Rome are considered as reflected in this poetic ep...
In a paper consisting of six pages this paper examines how the themes of faith anf retribution are reprsented in the 'Noah and the...
This paper examines the power by women in ancient Hebrew and Greek societies as represented by Rebekah in the Old Testament and Na...
the weak and defender of his territory and do whatever he must in the name of survival. A ravenous Odysseus is described by Homer...
was also a master of trickery. Odysseus would often hesitate before taking action. This was not out of cowardice. It was his way...
In 5 pages this paper examines themes of quest and identity as they are represented in Homer's epic and how they enable Odysseus a...
to his mother, he has been depicted as a solitary creature, not unlike the hombres in Sergio Leones "spaghetti" Westerns, who walk...
In a paper consisting of four pages the ways in which Pope mocks feuding families, the ancient Greek epic, and the aristocracy wit...
In five pages this argumentative paper analyzes the 1997 epic film by director James Cameron based upon its infamous 1912 sinking....
An eight page research paper considering the literary concept of the hero's journey in this classic science fiction film by direct...
This essay consists of seven pages and presents the argument that the motifs in the contemporary Superman stories are much like th...
King Arthur and his knights of the round table. Regardless of the permutation in which the story appears, it always carries with ...
In five pages the difficult decisions Aeneas had to make in Vergil's epic 'Aeneid' are explored. There are 3 sources cited in th...
In four pages the conformity or nonconformity of Coleridge's prose in this poem is compared with the sonnet's and epic poem's trad...
In five pages this paper examines the legendary status of the Beowulf epic. There are no other sources listed....
leader, Hector (son of King Priam), he kills in single combat. The poem closes as Achilles surrenders the corpse of Hector to Pria...
In eight pages this paper analyzes 'The Iliad' in a consideration of the relationships between males and females and humans and go...
original adventure stories; Indiana Jones has nothing on Odysseus, Achilles, Ajax and the rest of the characters who struggled on ...
it clear that the most important societal relationship is between a warrior, the "thane," and his liege lord (Donaldson 32). This ...
oral tradition, which makes the tales uniquely alive and constantly changing. This paper briefly compares two such epics, the Sund...
on "what all human beings should do if they want to be moral: They should always act in their own self-interest" (Thiroux 37). Ad...
of them all, the Sumerian Gilgamesh. Its not that Blake copied anyone, but his poem tends to evoke some of the same feelings in a ...