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Rome itself is portrayed as moving from a society dominated by heroes, such as Julius Caesar and Pompey, to one which is more frag...

poems "by several well-known theatrical poets. One of these poems (untitled in the volume, but now known as "The Phoenix and the T...

her husband in their youthful days. She loves Polixenes as a brother because he is the best and oldest friend of her husband. In t...

Bards most impressive works, and for many, the archetypal ideal of a narrative "tragedy". The reason behind Othellos reputation is...

alienate himself from his mother, uncle, fianc?e Ophelia and his old school chums, Rosencrantz and Guilderstern. The lone confide...

In five pages this paper examines Shakespeare's tragic protagonist in terms of the resentment he felt towards his father and how t...

In an essay of 5 pages, the paper considers whether the attraction between Shakespeare's star crossed lovers was physical attracti...

In six pages this essay examines the self destructiveness of Shakespeare's tragic character and how this life negation contributes...

In ten pages this paper presents a character analysis of Shakespeare's innovative portrayal of the tragic protagonist. There is t...

In eleven pages this paper examines the revenge of Shakespeare's tragic protagonist and how his being caught between acting and hi...

In five pages this paper examines how the witches and Lady Macbeth psychologically victimize Macbeth in this analysis of Shakespea...

stunning performance as Ophelia and at the time she was not as well known as she is today. However, when Charlton Heston appears o...

soliloquy, to be or not to be. Even as early as this, there is a good argument for Hamlets strategy unfolding. His motivation for ...

In five pages this paper assesses Polonius's advice to his son Laertes 'This above all: to thine own self be true' with in the con...

In five pages this paper analyzes Shakespeare's tragic protagonist in terms of the Prince's godlike view of himself. One source i...

in the famous "closet scene," in which he accuses his mother of being a sexual predator, declaring, "In the rank sweat of an ensea...

in order to obtain the loan. At this point in the nineteenth century, married women were not allowed to own property or carry out ...

who displays unconquerable courage. In this manner, Milton portrays Satan as a heroic figure, and elicits sympathy for him. As Sat...

political arena. Virginia was an important state that provided many political figures, but most southern states were largely marg...

In seven pages this paper examines the 'culture of poverty' as defined by Oscar Lewis and considered by theorists Charles Murray a...

In six pages Hamlet, his mother Gertrude and stepfather Claudius are analyzed within the criteria Aristotle established regarding ...

This paper analyzes these classic characters, noting the traits that qualify them as tragic heroes. This paper has five pages and...

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...

may very well lie in the study of some of the most earliest of heroes from the texts of Homer and Plato. By far one of the most en...

In five pages this character analysis of John Proctor and whether or not he was portrayed as a tragic hero in Arthur Miller's 1996...

In five pages Caesar's Roman conquest and leadership is examined in a conclusion that his insatiable ambition hastened the collaps...

In this paper consisting of nine pages the ways in which concepts of morality contributed to the deaths of these tragic heroes is ...

evolves to become so much more than he, at first, appeared to be as he came to see the errors of his ways by the end of the play a...

In five pages this paper argues that the protagonist of Sophocles' play successfully satisfies the classical tragic hero criteria ...

In five pages the tragic flaws of these play protagonists are contrasted and compared....