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The Tragic Hero Okonkwo in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

This essay consisting of four pages considers how the protagonist satisfies the tragic hero criteria as defined by Aristotle offer...

Past and Present Definitions of Hero

rap artists came to be regarded as heroes by many. With the tragic events of September 11, 2001, however, we have once again com...

Tragic Hero and Heroine Macbeth and Lady Macbeth

of fate. In the process, our sympathy is aroused" (The tragic hero). Within this definition, tragedy also is included in that it ...

Milkman Dead as a Classic Hero in Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

This 6 page paper argues that Milkman Dead, a character in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, can be described as a classic hero. Th...

The Tragic Hero Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In a paper consisting of four pages the ways in which Willy Loman and his struggles represent the definitive tragic hero are explo...

Heroes in 3 Stories by Ernest Hemingway

In six pages this paper examines the depiction of heroes in the short stories 'Hills Like White Elephants,' 'Soldier's Home,' and ...

Fascinating Hero Ernest Hemingway

In eight pages Ernest Hemingway, the larger than life man and his works are considered in this exploration of heroism. Five sourc...

Heroes in Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and A Farewell to Arms

In eight pages this paper examines the code hero of Ernest Hemingway in the characterizations of Robert Jordan and Frederic Henry....

The Tragic Tragic Hero Aaron Burr

In this paper that contains 20 pages Aaron Burr is given the respect he has been too long been denied through a thoughtful examina...

Cultural Hero Michael Jordan

In seven pages this paper examines the career and social achievements of NBA basketball superstar Michael Jordan. Eight sources a...

David Phillips's 'No Heroes, No Villains, The Story of a Murder Trial'

This is a novel overview in 5 pages that explains how the significance of evidence collecting and the practice of criminal law is ...

Were Robespierre and Amin Heroes or Villains?

These two men and the reign of terror over which each presided are the focus of this research paper consisting of five pages in te...

Hero of the Mexican Revolution Pancho Villa

This paper consists of five pages and considers Pancho Villa, hero of the Mexican Revolution and examines his impact upon the earl...

Darl as a Tragic Hero in As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

The entire story of the Bundren family is tragic with its tale of poverty in the South and a family whose members are so caught up...

Antigone, Oedipus, and the Tragic Hero

where there were festivals and dancing choruses which appear to have competed for prizes (ClassicNote). At one point it appears as...

Heroes Odysseus and Gilgamesh

a hero in strength and abilities, not in actions and deeds. With Enkidu, however, he finds a soul mate. He no longer seeks out the...

Byronic Hero Neo in The Matrix

his control, or often, the hero will choose this separation for himself. Neo lives in a chosen isolation, but he also chooses to f...

Second World War Hero Audie Murphy

Army (Dingus 262). There was nothing about this fresh-faced kid that gave any outward indication he had the heroic stuff Homer an...

Ed Siegel's Where are the Heroes

the apparent violence of the game. In these regards we see many things that mankind strives for. We, as Americans, are powerful ...

Comparisons Between A Hero of Our Times by Lermontov and Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky

tries to conceal his guilt before hes forced to acknowledge it or go insane (fortunately for him, the love of a good woman "saves"...

Robert Jordan as a 'Hemingway Code Hero' in For Whom the Bell Tolls

those standards of conduct which generations before World War I appeared to accept as adequate and perfectly satisfactory" (Meyers...

Tragic Hero Othello

confidant. Of course, the tragedy is, Iagos intent is to destroy Othello. Secondly, the tragic hero holds fast to his ideas and ...

Analysis of the Sound Characteristics in the Movie Uing Xiong (Hero)

of these men (Broken Sword, Sky, and Flying Snow). In essence, the central protagonist in the film takes it on himself to find an...

Shakespeare's Henry V as a Virtuous Hero

plot. There is little else that constitutes the plot other than Henry and his brilliant ability to dominate every situation. The...

Comparative Analyisis of Classical and Modern Literary Heroes

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

Lord Byron George Gordon and His Byronic Hero Creation

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...

'Hero and Leander' by Christopher Marlowe

In five pages the influence Marlowe received from writers of ancient Greece and Rome are considered as reflected in this poetic ep...

Visual Images in Last Action Hero Film

In six pages this paper refers to Timothy Corrigan's Film Terms and Topics the text edited by Jessica Munns and Gita Rajan entitle...

Childhood Heroes and Athletes

In five pages this research paper discusses the child idolatry of athletes and why this respect is sometimes misplaced in a consid...

Paul Robeson Hero Before His Time by Rebecca Larsen

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