Index
Achilles, 2–4; pride, 20–23; restitution,
28–30, 44; and Patroclus, 37–40;
killing of Hector, 40–43; encounter
with Priam, 45–47; compared to
Buddha, 54, 56–57; compared to
S oc r at e s , 115 –116 , 118; i n Tro i l u s
and Cressida, 170 –172
Agamemnon, 20–23, 28–30, 44
Andromache, 32–33, 35, 47
Arendt, Hannah, 112
Aristotle, 154, 224
Arnold, Matthew, 253
Astyanax, 31–33, 35, 74
Blake, William, 187–188; Romantic love,
14, 199–201, 211–212; forgiveness, 78;
Songs of Innocence and Experience,
188–190, 193–197, 206; Self hood,
189–191, 216; erotic love, 191–193;
religion, 196 –198; Milton, 201–204;
Urizen, 204–207
Bloom, Harold, 10, 137–138, 185
Buddha, 51–54; compared to Achilles, 54,
56–57; truth, 56; teaching, 58–61;
Soul, 62; Universal Being, 237. See also
Freud, Sigmund: compared to Jesus,
Buddha, and Confucius
Caesar, Julius, 141, 165–167, 180–181,
183
Cervantes, Miguel de, 11, 155, 184
C h auc er, G eoff rey, 14 0 –141
Christ. See Jesus
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 187, 199, 209
Confucius, 62–63; teaching, 63–65; ideal
of the gentleman, 66–67. See also
Buddha: Universal Being; Freud,
Sigmund: compared to Jesus, Buddha,
and Confucius
Cor iola nus, 167–168, 173
Crane, Hart, 186, 199, 209, 215
Darwin, Charles, 109, 213, 222
David (King in Biblical Old Testament),
68–69
Derrida, Jacques, 132, 234
Descartes, René, 137
Dickens, Charles, 183–184
Eliot, T. S., 82, 230
Emerson, Ralph Waldo: creative reading,
107–108; nature, 108–110; as spiritual
friend of Henry David Thoreau,
111–112; thinking as an intellectual
endeavor, 111–112, 118, 133–134
Foucault, Michel, 131
Freud, Sigmund, 219–221; and
Shakespearean drama, 12–13, 165;
Self, 14, 221–222; Eros, 186, 205–206,