Character Essays

Homer’s Iliad is a complex story of men at war, of heroic and bloody deeds by Greek from the Sparta and Trojan warriors during their ten year long struggle while the ascendancy swings from one side to the other. The driving force behind the events of the Iliad is the …

Introduction:             The Iliad of Homer, which gives a detailed account of the final years of the Trojan wars, has several characters.  But the story of the epic mainly focuses on two main characters, which will give the epic its main climax, i.e. Achilles and Hector. The Trojan hero Hector …

            In many productions of Twelfth Night, Act II, scene 5 represents a high point of the play, even though it deals with what is actually a sub-plot rather than the main story.  Malvolio enters, to fall prey to the snares set for him by Maria, Sir Toby Belch, and …

Every character in th story is a suspect. Although the case seemed simple, where the madman should be guilty of all accounts, other influencing factors should be considered. The Baron could also be guilty of her death because of how he threatened her in the beginning of the story. It …

As the 1990s have progressed, increasing attention has been given to the unprecedented changes that have transformed the nation’s social landscape over the past three decades and that hold profound implications for twenty-first-century America: the decline in high-paying manufacturing jobs, the emergence of a service economy, women’s taking advantage of …

Analytical Essay: Write an essay analyzing the similarities and differences between the female protagonist in “Pride and Prejudice” and the female protagonist in “Bridget Jones Diary”. Directed by Sharon Maguire in 2001, one hundred and eighty-eight years after Pride and Prejudice was published in 1813, Bridget Jones’s Diary would seem …

Mary Reilly and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are very similar. Mary Reilly is based off the book so it shouldn’t surprise anyone how similar they are. There are only a few differences between the two but I think those differences make the movie better. One …

Who is one of the most famous tragic heroes in the world of literature? It can be none other than the main character in Oedipus Rex: Oedipus the King. This is an inspired play written by Sophocles. In the duration of the play, a prophet has told that Oedipus is …

The role of secondary characters in works is to support and influence the protagonist and also to symbolically reveal behavioral patterns in human nature. Friar Lawrence in William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, is an important secondary character and it is shown by how he influences the plot, the development …

In the play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell, there are five characters, three men and two women. They are in a house where the murder of Mr. Wright took place the day before. The men are trying to find evidence to name a killer or motivation to name Mrs. Wright as …