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were formed as a direct result of Nationalism. Tensions in Germany in particular before the outbreak of war were phenomenal (Arth...

sons leads him to raise them as privileged beings that deserve having everything handed to them, simply by virtue of who they are....

but also by the fact that he is the king, and his people protect him rather than urging him onto the front lines as they might a y...

well he might be, since three of his children died that winter of a fever, within a week of one another (Shaara). He is a good sol...

granted authority" (Knox, 1990, p. 33). Hector is a man of peace born into a time of war, and therefore forced to fight (Knox, 1...

meanings of friendship and death. Gilgamesh was a solitary soul until he encountered the primitive nature man Enkidu, with whom h...

cape and superpowers? Someone who follows the dictates of his conscience? Or perhaps someone who overcomes his fear to rise to per...

a land in which the wealthy were very wealthy, the poor were exceedingly so. Michael seemed to believe he was in training t...

/ 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...

is wildly jealous of Elizabeth (Miller, 2003). Abigail is also the leader of the towns young women, and she and her friends were...

(2000) says that Mother Theresa is a good role model. Yet, there are many others who may be considered good role models. Mendelsoh...

"behold the beauty of another character....with...vivacity....behold in another the expression of a love so high that it assures i...

old families and the nouveau riche, who had made their fortunes in more recent years" (Books and Writers). For the most part this ...

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 ...

a man who has a prophecy following him, and he is a man who is relatively clueless about what is going on. He inadvertently kills ...

Castle that Gertrude has hastily remarried a mere three months after her husbands death, to her husbands brother Claudius no less....

1997 to wild acclaim (J.K. Rowling b). The second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets appeared in 1998, Harry Potter and...

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...

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...

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

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

action shot at a car race. To rely on an old clich?, he is "bored to tears." He spends most of his convalescent time sitting at th...

the stern discipline of an active career" and these characteristics "had taken over the office of modeling these features. Behind ...

(Pallas Athena, Goddess Of Wisdom). Mans first instinct is to provide for his - or her - own preservation, to tend to his...