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…, the anger of Peleus’ son Achilles…”(1,1). By this opening, we see how important a father’s name is in describing the identity of the hero. In book 3 there is an intervention by Aphrodite. “But Aphrodite caught up Paris/easily, since she was divine, and wrapped…

….” But, Achilles comes to realize a very human quality, compassion. After Achilles coldly kills Hector, he feels compassion when he sees Hektor’s father weeping at his son’s death. Achilles realizes what his anger and rage have caused and begins to feel the sickly…

…she may kill him herself. Clytaemestra's shrewdness is also demonstrated by the way she lures her husband into submission. She wants him to walk on the purple tapestries hoping this action would anger the gods who in turn would bless and aide her in his…

…in deed your father’s son more than in more than words? It can be easily seen how Laertes, influenced by Claudius in the heat of his anger, could conspire to murder Hamlet and it is in this attempt that Laertes loses his own life to the very poison he…

…court. Both of these men also share the trait of impulsiveness, achieving spontaneous reactions when angered. In Laertes this revealed in his return to Ellisenore after his father’s death. He returns with fire in his veins and revenge seething from his breath…

…, by telling Mama that Dee can have them. "Mama sees in Maggie's angerless fear an image of her own passive acceptance of Dee's aggression, her own suppressed anger." She finally realizes that she is just as intimidated by Dee as Maggie is. This awareness causes her…

…portrait of the horrors of the Nazi regime. It is the author’s personal experience which gives the novel its strength and his anger which gives it its fire. Native Son is a call to the nation urging recognition of the desperate plight of Black America. Wright…

…has dealt with his outright anger toward the institution of slavery. Equiano is not an ordinary man in the sense that his extraordinary life experience makes him an extraordinary man. Most men of this time do not have the same conflict over identity…

…a person by their skin colour. And so it is evident that the society that Peekay has grown up with has shaped his perception of humanity. During Peekay’s predicament at boarding school, Peekay developed a sense of intimidation and felt anger towards…

…to kill their siblings within palace walls. When he attempted to attack Turkish emirates in Asia, he aroused the anger of Timurlane. Battle of Ankara (1402) his army was defeated and he was taken prisoner. He died en route to Samarkand (Timbulane’s capital…