Essays Tagged: "Antihero"

Hamlet Review. Anithero.

HamletAntiheroism has always been an interesting aspect of a character thatauthors have chosen to illustra ... aspect of a character thatauthors have chosen to illustrate. In literature, there has been countlessantiheroic characters, from Randle McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo'sNest and Allie Fox in The M ... llie Fox in The Mosquito Coast, to others as famous as Robin Hoodand ... By literary definition, an antihero is the 'hero' of the play ornovel, but has negative attributes which separate him or her fr ...

(3 pages) 57 0 4.2 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet

Antithehorism in hamlet.

Antiheroism has always been an interesting aspect of a character that authors have chosen to illustr ... pect of a character that authors have chosen to illustrate. In literature, there has been countless antiheroic characters, from Randle McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Allie Fox in The ... lie Fox in The Mosquito Coast, to others as famous as Robin Hood and ... By literary definition, an antihero is the "hero" of the play or novel, but has negative attributes which separate him or her f ...

(3 pages) 43 0 4.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet

A short paper about Carnage from Spiderman

eople favor fictional superheroes for their ability to overcome the odds against them. I prefer the antiheroes who have the outstanding odds. One my favorite comic book characters is Carnage because o ... mic book characters is Carnage because of his looks, strength, overwhelming abilities.Carnage is an antihero from Spider-man and one of his most powerful enemies. Before he became Carnage, he was a ps ...

(2 pages) 22 0 0.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"George Orwell" and the Mad World: The Anti-Universe of 1984.

you, Winston, I shall make you perfect." So O'Brien, the Grand Inquisitor of 1984, has said to the antihero Winston Smith, in one of the dream sequences which strangely go almost unnoticed in that in ... that most fundamental drive: the procreation of the race. Least believable of his characters is the antiheroine of A Clergyman's Daughter--a novel in which we again have the impoverished middle class, ...

(15 pages) 97 0 4.3 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

A World without Hero

(1 pages) 31 0 3.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

A Literary Approach to Road to Perdition Road to Perdition Formalism

the good guy roles moviegoers have come to expect from him. In this movie, he is not a hero but an antihero. Hanks plays Michael Sullivan, a professional hit man on the payroll of his surrogate fathe ...

(5 pages) 29 2 4.3 Feb/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Portrayal of "Richard III" by Lawrence Olivier.

nd legends. In doing so, he created a dramatically heightened play and gave Richard, his villainous antihero, intense political and social dimensions. Laurence Olivier adapted the play from the medium ...

(8 pages) 26 0 5.0 Sep/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare