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Odysseus,/raider of cities gouged out your eye" (Homer 227). As Polyphemus is the son of Poseidon, Odysseus makes a powerful god h...

notes that Byron "emphasizes specially the spirit of revolt against society ... But his villain-heroes ... are selfish and unscrup...

national-liberation leader."1 The author then notes a very intriguing point in that while none of these descriptions are entirely ...

heroes (or heroines) epic journey in self-discovery and personal awareness and understanding of the world in which he or she exist...

In 7 pages this paper applies Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell to the novel Prisoner of Azkaban in an analysis of how...

In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares the hero's role in Sophocles' Antigone, Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesia...

In five pages this paper examines how the concept of hero is defined and how both Dante in The Inferno and Sir Gawain in Sir Gawai...

In eight pages the romantic 'Don Juan' is contrasted and compared with the hero's poetic satirist, Lord Byron. Five sources are c...

In a paper that consists of eight pages the definition of hero throughout the course of cultural history is considered in support ...

to his mother, he has been depicted as a solitary creature, not unlike the hombres in Sergio Leones "spaghetti" Westerns, who walk...

In five pages this paper examines the concepts of icons and heroes and defines hero along with providing a human example. There a...

The tale of a hero becoming an adult is a staple of literature. This essay compares heroes Han Solo and Odysseus, Luke Skywalker a...

The writer compares and contrasts Achilles, a hero from Greek mythology, with Beowulf, the hero of the Old English epic poem. The ...

ultimate control, where there could be no arguments. Although all power was concentrated in the hands of a single ruler, Roman c...

In four pages the concept of the hero's journey as it manifest itself in these classical works of literature is examined. There i...

In eight pages this paper examines the popular movie character in terms of the qualities he embodies as a popular mythological her...

This essay pertains to the characters of Gilgamesh and Achilles and how they each warrior-heroes representing their culture. The w...

it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was" (Hemingway 13). He is a man lost in a world with no dire...

the white classes living in the east side while black citizens were relegated to the west side because that was the only location ...

Parkman is not when he begins his adventure. Parkman and his friend and relative Shaw are Eastern bourgeois; they are Harva...

Beyond ordinary or normal human ability, power, or experience" (Dictionary.com, 2004). Applying this we can look at the way she c...

than life and serves as a role model for others to follow; they are brave, smart and good in battle; and, the hero embarks upon a ...

personal codes (much like Hemingways did) which serve them in good stead when faced with insurmountable dangers. Along their journ...

In nine pages this paper presents the argument that the 'world' of the asylum that is featured in the novel represents a real worl...

father speaking to him, or a devil that has assumed the shape of his father in order to lure him into sinful acts. Furthermore, th...

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the vengeance and madness of Shakespeare's Hamlet and Melville's Captain Ahab. Sev...

to those who have never read the play or viewed a theatrical production. It is the story of a young Danish prince, a Wittenberg U...

they are in committing to marriage. The imagery evoked by "violet in the youth of primy nature" implies that Hamlet is interested...

or a devil that has assumed the shape of his father in order to lure him into sinful acts. Furthermore, there is a third option, w...

feels that he is protecting Ophelia by feigning insanity, or by being insane, he finds that he has merely turned her away. His you...