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Roman Myth
... of their cultural distinctiveness. They are significant and vital to understand when looking at the history of a people. The accounts of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Robert de Boron's "Merlin"
... is basically the creation of Geoffrey of Monmouth, who in his twelfth-century History of the Kings of Britain combined the Welsh ... a cleft in the rock, disappeared. These animals typified, as Merlin afterwards explained, the invasion of Uther and Pendragon, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Kurosawa's Ran, Shakespeare's King Lear, and Man's Self-Imposed Cycle of Folly
... ] cultural sign of Peter" (Seaton 2). The film is set in the Sengoku or "Warring States" period of Japanese history, after the breakdown of central ... for his own predicament. Kyoami's comment that "If the rock you sit on starts to roll, jump clear, or you' ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
Analysis of some of Victor Hugo's Worrks
... of free will, a cyclical history tends to imply an overhanging fate. I hope these points can help out with analysis of Hugo's works. Of ... incredible destructive force: the ability to tear down great rock pinnicles and swallow men, even ships, whole. This is ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors
Analysis of "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
... specifically of society today, my theory has been proven again and again through the course of history. In our era, the preferred method of ... where Golding talks about a boy who's thinking of throwing a rock at another, young defenseless boy: "Roger's arm was ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > "Lord of the Flies" by Sir William Gerald Golding
Lord of the Flies Literature C
... and hopefully fall in the end. In history, Christ was killed when he was ... symbolism was Ralph and Simon climbing the rocks, in which Simon finished first. That ... the literary tool of symbolism. Almost all of the important aspects of the book involve symbolism ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Western literature has few epics of any real greatness. Of these, The Epic of Gilgamesh is by far the oldest.
... of the twenty-first century C.E., Gilgamesh was a figure who bridged the shadowy area between history and the chaos that was before history ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
"The Merchant of Venice" and Anti-Semitic beliefs.
... when reading/seeing this play. Throughout literally history and history itself Jews have been the center of ridicule. Edgar Rosenberg states that Jew ... is a bad person; but people can hit rock bottom and change because of it and thats what I feel happens ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare
The Origin of Count Dracula - analyzes the different theories developed after Bram Stoker's Dracula was released
... Stoker was not the creator of vampires. The belief in vampires has existed all throughout recorded history, since the beginning of time. When man ... was then rocked back and forth until the maiden's skin is pierced and she dies from the loss of blood. There ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
G.B.Shaw's "Heartbreak House". 'A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes'
... history of British socialism. His work with and for the Fabian Society continued until the end of his life, during which period he wrote a number of ... if the ship is not to go on the rocks.' Lady Ariadne (Addy) Utterword, captain Shotover's youngest daughter, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature