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Torquato Tasso and His Most Famous Work, “Gerusalemme Liberata” (Jerusalem Delivered)
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A 10 page paper which examines the Italian poet and specifically considers how women are portrayed in his masterpiece, “Gerusalemme Liberata.” Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: TGtasso.rtf
Torquato Tasso/"Jerusalem Delivered"
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A 4 page research paper that summarizes various points in Tasso's sixteenth century Christian epic poem "Gerusalemme Liberata" (Jerusalem Delivered). This epic dramatizes the successes of the First Crusade in wresting control of Jerusalem away from Muslim rule. Tasso's protagonist is Godfrey of Bouillon, who is depicted primarily as a general and a strategist. Additionally, Tasso allows himself poetic license and creates a fictional hero in Rinaldo, a mythical ancestor of the Este and a hero of almost superhuman force, similar to Homer's Achilles. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: khtortas.rtf
Total War in Light of Sherman’s March to the Sea
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This 7 page paper examines the concept of total war by focusing on Sherman’s march to the sea. The military action is discussed as the beginning of a change in military strategy for the U.S. Several examples are provided. The concept of total war is defined and discussed. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: SA003Sea.rtf
Townspeople’s Impressions of the Angel in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings”
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A 3 page paper which examines how the angel is compared by the townsfolk to a circus animal, a carnival acrobat, and a sideshow freak (a woman who had been changed into a spider), the significance of these three incidents to the story, and how they help readers to make sense of the old man with enormous wings and the residents’ response to his presence in their community. No additional sources are used.
Filename: TGmanwings.rtf
Tradition vs. Change in Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart”
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A 4 page paper which examines how the conflict between tradition and change affected Okonkwo and the members of his Igbo society in the classic 1959 novel. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: TGtfatc.rtf
Traditional Family Life in “The Importance of Being Earnest”
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A 5 page paper
which examines if there are any elements in Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being
Earnest” which offer subversive thoughts concerning traditional family life. Charles
Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” is also discussed. Bibliography lists 1 additional source.
Filename: RAearn.rtf
Tragedies: Oedipus The King and Death Of A Salesman
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The newspapers are
forever mentioning the word, 'tragedy'. It usually means that there has
been a death or deaths associated with a catastrophic event.
Surprisingly, this is in keeping with the use of tragedy as described by
Aristotle: that it should evoke the emotions of pity and fear in the
presence of an action of a certain magnitude. This 5 page paper
explores the element of tragedy in Sophocles' play, Oedipus Rex and
Arthur Miller's play, Death Of A Salesman. No additional sources are
listed.
Filename: KTtragic.wps
Tragedy & Tragic Heroes In Macbeth, Death Of A Salesman, & More
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A 6 page paper defining classic Aristotelian form of tragedy and how it is expressed in Macbeth, Death of a Salesman, The Metamorphosis, and The Stranger. 2 source bib
Filename: Traghero.doc
Tragedy and Illusion in "Death of a Salesman" and "View from the Bridge"
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A six page paper comparing these two plays by Arthur Miller. The paper concludes that in both plays, the hero is standing in the midst of a tidal wave of reality against which he cannot possibly win, and yet he refuses to back down because that would mean ceasing to believe in the illusion that sustains him. Bibliography lists six sources.
Filename: KBmillr.wps
Tragedy and the Tragic Hero
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A five page work comparing Sophocles' Oedipus, Homer's Odysseus, and Shakespeare's Macbeth as tragic heroes, and the works in which they serve as protagonist ("Oedipus Rex," the "Odyssey," and "Macbeth") as tragedies. The paper concludes that Odysseus is not a tragic hero at all, because his problems do not arise from a doomed conflict between external forces and his own tragic flaw; while that is, indeed, the case with both Oedipus and Macbeth. Bibliography lists three sources.
Filename: KBtragic.wps
TRAGEDY AS PORTRAYED IN THE PLAYS: OEDIPUS REX AND DEATH OF A SALESMAN
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This 3 page paper examines the writings of Miller and Aristotle as concerns tragic plays. Their concepts are exampled in Death of a Salesman and Oedipus Rex. Quotes cited from texts. Bibliographpy lists 4 sources.
Filename: MBoedwilly.rtf
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