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Gender Portrayals in Homer's 'The Iliad' and Sophocles' Antigone

of Helen of Troy in marriage if she wins. This starts the war. In this we see that the war is being fought over a woman, Helen, c...

Human Nature, Morality, Punishment, Guilt, Crime, Justice, and Law in Literature

(Sophocles). In this she is arguing how she has not followed the laws of "men" or even of the gods in this case, but rather per...

Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and August Wilson's Fences and their Portrayal of America

what he believes to be truth. He tells her, "Maybe I come into the world backwards, I dont know. But you born with two strikes on ...

The Portrayal of Friendship in French Cinema

considered a right" (230). In four French films in particular, Arnaud Desplechins Comment Je Me Suis Disput?... (Ma Vie Sexuelle)...

Portrayal of Asian Women as Whores in Miss Saigon

babies, which it did not do after World War II. However, even in this, the message is that America saves the day, while Vietnam r...

Honore de Balzac's Eugenie Grandet and George Eliot's Middlemarch

using money for good. This also illustrates how her position was far less than that of men, even her own son were she to have one....

Fahrenheit 911 and Portrayal of Minority Issues by Filmmaker Michael Moore

the senate and the man these black officials believed had won the election. Gore is seen repeatedly banging his gavel to restore ...

Pressfield's Gates of Fire

the often did not take part in battles. It was assumed that the homefront was theirs to protect while the men moved forward. As...

Portrayal of Men in Seven Guitars and Jitney by August Wilson

going, but "if that dont work, I guess Ill just run the bus line until something else happens" (Quoted in Shannon 62). Doub is a ...

Cinematic Portrayal of Aliens

that the alien is given a sexual orientation. In the second movie of this series the alien is a Queen whose main goal (besides des...

3 Biographies on Abraham Lincoln Analyzed

Lincolns reputation has been acquired through the perpetuation of myth and because Lincoln is so far removed in history. Furtherm...

An Othello Analysis

end. The tragic nature of the story does rely on the supposition that Othello is indeed propelled to do something because he is ...

Analyzing 'Death of a Salesman' from a Feminist Perspective

first time has begun to take a look at what his years of toil have produced. The comment, then, on the American...

Nonfiction and Fiction's Portrayal of History

book is that the author has primarily been a fiction writer. Why, all of a sudden, does a fiction writer attempt to write a non-fi...

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Sympathy for the Protagonist

keeping me at a distance; but that until she heard from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation, that I was endeavouring...

Callenbach's Ecotopia

The novel takes the form of a series of newspaper articles and journal entries by Weston; the society is therefore observed from t...

Novel and Film Portrayals of Frankenstein

any sense, which is the case in the novel. One similarity regarding the novel and the film involves the main characters fascina...

Depiction of Women in Classical Greek Literature

In ten pages this paper discusses how Euripides' plays depicted Clytemnestra in this consideration of the shift in women's portray...

'The Longest Day' Was it Accurate?

film was produced in much the way a battle is in terms of strategy and planning, thus making it a very intense and powerful film. ...

Real Uses of Artificial Intelligence Versus Portrayals in Science Fiction

"artificial intelligence" was the choice..." Artificial intelligence involves the association of machines with comp...

Beer and Circus How Big Time College Sports is Crippling Undergraduate Education by Murray Sperber

according to Sperber, is not casual social drinking but a phenomenon known as binge drinking. Adolescents and young adults who ch...

Premodern Japanese Peasant Life

their unswerving and loyal oath, many peasants were beginning to grumble about the heavy handedness of the Warlords. Marikos hom...

Theme of Death in Beloved by Toni Morrison and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

it we see the power of life and death in the novel and the people. However, Okonkwo did take part in the death and was warned that...

Differing Depiction of Women in Homer's Epics 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey'

Greek society was that imposed upon them by either their fathers or purchasers. They would never aspire to privilege or influence...

TV Portrayal of Race

of a show called Wordpath, which is a 30-minute weekly public access television show about "Oklahoma Indian languages and the peop...

Four Films and Their Portrayal of Crime and Judicial Procedures

element introduced when Utah encounters Bodhi, and is made to consider rather deeper philosophical aspects of life than the straig...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Minor Characters and Humor

agrees that this scene is enlightening on Hamlets background and character. In fact, Bloom argues that loosing Yorick, who died in...

Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri and Portrayal of Women

woman who is generous and selfless: "So much more dear and pleasing is to God/ My little widow, whom so much I loved,/ As in good ...

Remains of the Day, Gosford Park, and Portrayal of Labor Relations

hear me? Im the perfect servant; I have no life." (Gosford Park, 2001). The idea that servants lives are insignificant is support...

Literature, Self, and Identity

understand that there are many wolves out there, and when she finds one she is completely controlled by him and thus loses her inn...