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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...

almost all of them are loners. Even when they are surrounded by a large group of people, there is this inner stoicism, this inner ...

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

The writer analyzes the 1942 classic film Casablanca, and argues that Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, is the archetypal re...

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...

the span of a day comes face-to-face with the realization that the American Dream has become a nightmare of his own making, that t...

Philosophy "Hero" as used by Campbell (1990) is androgynous, and he underscores this fact by using the pronouns "he" and "s...

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

particular woman but does not possess her. Another may clearly see that the woman he describes is his. Regardless, however, of whe...

assassination not as a betrayal of his friend and leader, but as "a chivalric defender of national honor" (Bloom 123). He perceiv...

hero may have incredible moral fiber, but have a tendency to love women he can never have. Tragic flaws, if one looks at any story...

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

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

they are also alike in that there are ties of friendship and devotion between the various characters that threaten the pairings as...

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...

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...

a transformational leader. According to Burns, Burns, transformational leaders are change agents, they take more risks than others...

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

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 ...

Egyptians, whose fantastic death cult gave us some of the greatest monuments on earth. The Egyptians believed in an afterlife that...

complete madness, until at last Elizabeth Proctor, who is completely innocent, is charged with being a witch (Miller, 1952). Not s...

in the city in the midst of the excitement (Mary Cassatt biography). When she first arrived in Paris, she exhibited her work at ...

In this paper consisting of nine pages the ways in which concepts of morality contributed to the deaths of these tragic heroes is ...

Lear," Lear chooses the love and respect of his children as the highest good, and so can only suffer from loss of their love and r...

In 5 pages these 20th century writers and thinkers are examined regarding their interpretations of identity and life's meaning in ...

the weak and defender of his territory and do whatever he must in the name of survival. A ravenous Odysseus is described by Homer...

In eight pages these ancient Greek tragic protagonists featured in Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus are ...

In five pages this paper considers the autobiography of a disabled veteran of the Vietnam War and son of a Second World War hero i...

In this paper of five pages two classical heroes are contrasted in terms of the older and noble Odysseus and the young and volatil...

he could no longer tolerate the outright prejudice. Robesons travels landed him in the Soviet Union, where there was no sign of t...