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The Nature of Radical Innocence in Literary Depiction

This research paper examines Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises and how the characterization of this novel's main character denies thi...

Oedipus Saga in Sophocles' Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonnus

In eight pages this paper examines how the protagonist Oedipus changed from one work to the next in this analysis of these tragedi...

Gawain and Lancelot Heroic Comparison

of Lancelot and Gawain. The hero The publisher of Malorys work, William Caxton (1485), wrote in the preface: I...enprynte....

Heroic Greek Definition in 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' of Homer

In seven pages the classical Greek definition of hero as revealed in the epic poems of Homer is discussed....

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare and its 2 Couples

In five pages Benedick and Beatrice and Claudio and Hero are contrasted and compared in this analysis of William Shakespeare's Muc...

'Epic Hero' Characteristics of Odysseus

In five pages this essay discusses how Odysseus qualifies as an 'epic hero' because of the suffering and hardship he endured throu...

'The Iliad' and the Homeric Hero

prince, a warrior and one who will fight to the death to defend what he believes in. However, in order to support the above thesis...

Comparative Analysis of Gilgamesh and Heracles

cultures. In addition, the kind of difficulties and trials faced by different ancient communities will also tend to be similar. On...

Christopher Columbus

One of the ways in which Native Americans could see Columbus as a hero involves the simplicity of the man himself, in relationship...

Tragically Flawed Heroes in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

This paper contrasts and compares the tragic flaws of Achebe and Sophocles' protagonists in 5 pages. There are no other sources l...

The Willy Loman Character in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In six pages this paper considers how Willy's confusion regarding his mentors brother Ben and a revered salesman colleague pervert...

Reading Whybrow: America's Illness

Adam Smith and his ideas of economics. Smiths theory of economics "is firmly grounded in the biology of human behavior" (Whybrow)....

Apollo and Oedipus

he is blind than when he sees. "Light, to the ancient Greeks, was beauty, intellect, virtue, indeed represented life itself" (Gree...

Hamlet & Oedipus

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...

Oedipus and Hamlet

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares William Shakespeare's protagonist with the Oedipus myth as well as the interpreta...

Sight, Insight, and Vision in Oedipus the King by Sophocles

More than anything, regardless of what Sigmund Freud believed, "Oedipus the King" is a story of sight and insight and the...

Greek Literature and Admirable Character Leadership

In five pages and 2 parts Homer's 'The Iliad' is examines in terms of Patroklos' leadership abilities with a contrast and comparis...

Creon and Oedipus in Oedipus the King by Sophocles

one to conclude that determinism plays a significantly essential role. Were Oedipus and Creons lives determined or were the...

The Theme of Tragedy in Oedipus the King and Death of a Salesman

This 5 page paper discusses the tragedies faced in the plays Oedipus the King (Oedipus Rex) by Sophocles and Death of a Salesman b...

Theban Plays of Sophocles and Themes of Morality and Fate

In 6 pages the Theban play trilogy of Sophocles, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, are discussed in terms of how...

Predetermination in “Oedipus Rex”

Of course Oedipus refuses to believe this at first, accusing Teiresias of plotting against the throne; he orders the man to leave ...

Oedipus the King: Character

intelligent man, a man of integrity, and a man who is willing to seek answers, even if those answers point to him as the problem. ...

Oedipus: Guilty or Innocent?

and instead gives the infant to another shepherd, who takes the boy to Polybus, king of Corinth, who raises it as his own (Sophocl...

Okonkwo and Oedipus

way out of his situation at all because no matter what he does to avoid the killing of his father and marrying his mother he has n...

Oedipus Explained

concerned for his people; self-regarding but caring. This paper answers several questions about him and his actions in the play. D...

Hamlet, Oedipus & Death of a Salesman

"Hamlet," the troubled Danish prince is morose and troubled because, just a short time after his fathers death, his mother remarri...

Louis Riel

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

Epic Hero Status of Odysseus in Homer’s “The Odyssey”

was time to allow Odysseus to return home. Should he be allowed to go back to Ithaka to be reunited with his wife Penelope and hi...

Comparing Annie Oakley and Oddysseus

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

The Shape of Heroism

Using examples from literature and from world events, this essay identifies some of the heroes everyone knows and those nobody kno...