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Essays 541 - 570
Gawain is presented with similar atrocities and the same type of need for retribution, though his choice of actions and his determ...
In three pages this persuasive and personal essay examines the reasons why this protagonist qualifies as a hero. There is no bibl...
The Epic of Gilgamesh, composed about 2000 BC and found inscribed on 12 tablets at Nineveh, is the earliest known epic. The Epic...
This essay consists of six pages and in a comparative heroic analysis of Gilgamesh and Odysseus presents the arguments that despit...
In 4 pages, this paper argues that the main character Bardamu is representative of an anti-hero as well as an autobiographical por...
This essay consists of seven pages and presents the argument that the motifs in the contemporary Superman stories are much like th...
In four pages this historical Native American hero is discussed as he is portrayed in [The] Taos Indians and the Battle for Blue L...
In five pages this paper compares the heroes Hector and Achilles as presented in Homer's epic in an evaluation of whose heroism wa...
In five pages this paper examines the delays in Odysseus's return to Ithaca and how the hero is at fault for them. There are no o...
traced back to the rather lurid sensationalism of ecclesiastical writers of that period (Magnusson 10). Since monasteries were fre...
In six pages analytical, psychodynamic, and personality paradigms are applied to former professional athlete Brian Bosworth as dep...
In ten pages this paper discusses how the traditional and nontraditional roles of women are represented in Hero and Bianca, and Be...
becomes more and more obvious. Their words, which appear to be that demonstrating disdain, are words spouted by lovers who are con...
In a paper containing three pages the discussion of whether Beowulf should be considered a pagan or Christian hero is presented. ...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how heroes are defined in these ancient epics. There are no other sources listed....
A 5 page overview the fictional tale of the Vietnam War by James Webb. The young protaganist is a Marine hero. 1 source....
1997 to wild acclaim (J.K. Rowling b). The second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets appeared in 1998, Harry Potter and...
"behold the beauty of another character....with...vivacity....behold in another the expression of a love so high that it assures i...
(2000) says that Mother Theresa is a good role model. Yet, there are many others who may be considered good role models. Mendelsoh...
boasts of his strength and courage, believing those alone are the lone criteria by which a hero is judged. The gods intervene to ...
king also ordered killed. They were subsequently left to die of exposure and were discovered by a she-wolf. Discovered by the king...
honorable combat and murders Ither by throwing a javelin into Ithers eye (Ash). A true knight would never have indulged in such a ...
university-trained expert in his field. And yet he finds that intellectual learning is not very important in this world, whats nee...
reacts to the presence of the men by eating two of them, Odysseus attacks and manages to blind Polyphemus by stabbing him in his e...
/ so long as we men of Achaea soldiered on at Troy. / But once wed sacked King Priams craggy city, / boarded ship, and a god dispe...
he was gone he come back and put his head in again, and told me to mind about that school, because he was going to lay for me and ...
In five pages the heroes in these classic works are contrasted and compared. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....
In five pages this essay considers Hercules in an overview of his mythological life and compares the Greek version to the popular ...
In five pages Byronic hero is first defined and then examined as it is reflected in Lord Byron's Manfred and Mary Shelley's Franke...
In five pages this paper discusses Hemingway's life and then examines how heroes are interpreted in the novel The Sun Also Rises a...