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Two Passages from “The Iliad”

book, Ares is battling Diomedes; he thrusts at him but Athena knocks his spear away and Diomedes stabs the god. Ares flies up to O...

The Relationship of Thetis and Achilles in “The Iliad”

Achilles is well aware that he is mortal and that his life will be brief, and Thetis recognition of his mortality "contrasts sharp...

Greek Virtue

the foot of power!/Nothing care I for Zeus" (Aeschylus). In other words, Prometheus will not succumb to tyranny and a power that r...

Achilles and Socrates

ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...

Warriors Across Time

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...

Mythology and Iliad, Aeneid

This research paper/essay discusses the "Iliad" and the "Aeneid" as two epic poems that mirror the values of Greek and Roman socie...

"Troy" and "The Iliad" - A Comparison

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at "The Iliad" and the 2004 film, "Troy". The changes in the latter are explained throu...

Perspective and the Theme of Beowulf

similar to the character of Virgil, who, despite occupying a seemingly major role in the Divine Comedy, primarily exists to better...

"Things Fall Apart" - Feminism and Postcolonialism

is himself a figure that is somewhat alien to the experiences of many Westerners in the sense that he has "earned" three wives thr...

Good Country People

it is interesting that this name is actually a variant of the name Helga, which means "holy." Joy represents the kind of dichotom...

Langston Hughes, Identification with America

This essay analyzes two poems by Hughes, "Theme for English B" and "Let America Be America Again." The writer asserts that "Theme"...

Joy and Fatalism in "Paradise Lost"

In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at themes in "Paradise Lost". The primary themes in question are those of destiny and jo...

Brown vs. the Board of Education and To Kill a Mockingbird

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at racial themes in To Kill a Mockingbird. The reality of these themes is made apparen...

Woolf and Wilde - Self-Denial

In a paper of two pages, the writer looks at themes central to both "Mrs. Dalloway" and "The Picture of Dorian Grey". Self-denial ...

Revelation in Jesus Christ

This essay cites a specific book, Fundamental Theology by Heinrich Fries. The writer summarizes Chapters 33 and 34. Major themes, ...

Orlando Beyond the Theme Parks - A Book Proposal

be updated on a regular basis. However, the majority of these travel books focus is exclusively, or predominantly, on the two majo...

Coen Postmodernism and "No Country for Old Men"

This is all part and parcel of the postmodern style employed by the Coens, which they use to great effect. Postmodernism involves ...

Mark O'Rowe's Howie the Rookie

their histories are defined and how their interactions take place. The play also enhanced my understanding of how physical elemen...

Political Theme in Zhang's Hero

film Hero, released in 2002 and costing $30 million to produce, is the most expensive film in the history of the Chinese film indu...

Analysis of Beowulf

monstrous creature Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon - it considers the impact of social obligations (loyalty to God and co...

Sublime and Subjective Romanticism in William Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey”:

natural sublime."2 As is common in the thematic development of the sublime in Romanticism, the sensation is one of rapture and on...

Teaching and Learning in Poetry

school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...

Herodotus Histories, Book 4, Chapters 176-183

as he refers to the way in which climate and geographical features serve to shape human behavior. For example, the Lotus Eaters ar...

Amy Tan's Two Kinds

When she disappoints her mother by failing one of her tests, she acknowledges her mothers failed hopes, but she also sees her "pro...

Royall Tyler/The Contrast

fianc? was away, Maria restricted her social contacts, read a great many books and focused on letters from Dimple. Letitia explain...

Theme of Slavery in 3 Literary Eras

slaves are forcibly taken from their native lands, "Husbands from their Wives, Parents from their Children," which he argues goes ...

Gregory of Nyssa and St. Augustine

Augustine Chapter X). He then notes that he learned many things through such examination concerning his behavior, behavior...

Hinchey on Critical Theory

discusses student teachers who assign homework simply to be assigning homework, not for any specific goal or purpose. The student ...

Cartoonist Tex Avery and His Styles of Influence

to be time to defrock this innocent waif, and as conceived by Tex Avery, she was now all grown up (was she ever) and more than sui...

A Comparison of Two Christian Tragedies

representative of the many generations of Church representatives that have pummeled the Ojibwe with its Christian doctrine. Endri...