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Chaucer and the Church

The Chaucer we envisage here might regard this tale as valuable for its religious elements, for its depiction of a valiant woman w...

The Miller’s Tale

some life lesson, Nicholas is trying to get Alison in bed with him, and thus also needs a lesson. There is Alison who is willing t...

The Franklin’s Tale: Courtly Love and Marriage

help her and rid the shore of rocks if he can make love to her. Aurelius love is a courtly love in many respects. He has loved her...

Chaucer’s The Franklin’s Tale and the Film Indecent Proposal

these stories are both very similar for the couple love one another and share their lives in a very equal and meaningful manner. ...

Significance of Vernacular in "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer and "The Divine Comedy" by Dante Alighieri

Comedy." His Italian allegory depicts the Christian hereafter that is subdivided into cantos of Inferno (hell), Purgatorio (purga...

Canterbury Tales

that is good about the Church and religion. But, all the others are seemingly far less than perfect as they are connected with the...

Various Approaches to Love in Literature

This essay presents an overview of how love is used thematic in various texts, which includes Dante's Divine Comedy, Chaucer's Can...

Chaucer's View of Religion, The Canterbury Tales

This essay pertains to the clergy members who are part of Chaucer's band of travelers in "The Canterbury Tales." The writer argues...

The Iliad and "The Knight's Tale"

This essay presented an argument that Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale" reflects the ideals of Homer's The Iliad. Four pages in lengt...

Chaucer's Merchant and Archetypes

role as archetypes of classes of humanity, Blake identifies many of the figures with the characters of Greek myth, whom also alleg...

Select Canterbury Tales

Introduction Geoffrey Chaucers Canterbury Tales are truly timeless stories that tell the reader something of the history of Europ...

Canterbury Tales and The Song of Roland

should control the entire known world and so the theme of religion, and the power of religious men, was not questioned in The Song...

A Review of The Pardoner's Tale

extremely outspoken. One of his strongest skills it seems is public speaking. In fact, he is a performer! These characteristics ...

Dante's 'Inferno' and Chaucer's Pilgrims

have been a part of hypocritical ways will be confined. Likewise, the idea and notion of lust is a level of hell where those who h...

Feminist and Anti-Feminist Themes in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

He returns to the witch who then tells him he can have an ugly and faithful wife in her, or a beautiful and unfaithful woman. He a...

Canterbury Tales: The Shipman and the Wife of Bath

acting as a prostitute. When the merchant comes home and finds out she got the money from the monk, without knowing she slept with...

Two Views of Troilus and Cressida

This 4 page paper discusses two versions of Troilus and Cressida, that of Boccaccio and Chaucer's later work. Bibliography lists 1...

Justice and the Wife of Bath

was a knight, he was essentially required to meet challenges and learn how to be chivalrous, often through mistakes. As such the Q...

Chaucer/Merchant's & Franklin's Tales

French fabliaux, which provide the source material on which many of the tales are based. Essentially, Chaucer use of gardens sugge...

Perceptions of Women in Chaucer's Society and In The Canterbury Tales

20). This type of arrangement led to the "courtly love" romances of the high Middle Ages, which were not tremendously popular wit...

The Role of Women in The Knight's Tale of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

This paper presents a critical analysis of womens' roles as seen in The Knight's Tale of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The author a...

An Examination of the Wife of Bath in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

this is the case, then the Wife of Bath must have exceeded hers as well; but precisely what is the quota? And why should there eve...

Marriage in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales -Merchant and Wife of Bath

A paper comparing and contrasting the views of marriage by two of Chaucer's characters in The Canterbury Tales, the Merchant and t...

A Review of The Clerk's Tale and Traffic in Women

A 10 page exploration of the 1975 contentions of anthropologist Gayle Rubin. Her article, The Traffic in Women Notes on the Poli...

Love and Lovers in 'The Wife of Bath;s Tale,' 'The Knight's Tale,' and 'The Merchant's Tale'

In five pages this report compares and contrasts Chaucer's perceptions about lovers and love in these three tales that are part of...

Masculinity and Its Nature

This research paper offers a detailed examination of the characeristics of masculinity asdescribed in several literary works, whic...

A Canterbury Pilgrim's Personal Tale

Pegasus. Every morning he woke and sharpened his blades while everyone else was at breakfast. When we finished eating he would ...

Support for the Death Penalty

topic has led noted criminologists to conclude that "...executions have no discernible effect on homicide rates" (Goertzel). There...

Forensic Pathology Of Sudden Unexplained Death

and process evidence with the intent of catching the perpetrator. While not all sudden unexpected death is of a criminal nature, ...

Assessment of an IT Web Site

include a jobs section as well as a section containing white papers across a large number of different areas such as SOX complianc...