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to consider that the concepts of honor and dishonor, as they pertained to Medieval women, were dictated by the attitudes that wome...

commit a sin where he would go to held under Dantes model, it seems that he might be found in Limbo. At the same time, the truth i...

just beginning his journey, understanding that is a necessity and that it holds danger: "MIDWAY upon the journey of our life I fou...

narrative practice. Woolfs essay "Modern Fiction" remains one of the main stays when describing writing using the modernist approa...

been quoted as saying, "Probably nothing we had as children was quite so important to us as our summers in Cornwall...to hear the ...

is basically no place for an intellectual woman within the university environment. On a visit to a university, Woolf is told she i...

on love, but rather an arrangement. This book sheds light on the cruelty of arranged marriages, but things get worse. It is not me...

In a paper consisting of 7 pages social class as it is represented in the intellectualism of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the femini...

Iin seven pages this paper examines the codependent relationship between the Ramsays in To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. Ther...

point became critical to interpreting the story, and some authors such as Faulkner even began to tell stories from a multitude of ...

In five pages this paper analyzes the Pardoner's sexuality in a consideration of the stories from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey...

This paper examines Virginia Woolf's feminist ideology in her various novels and essays. The author contends that Woolf believed ...

way down the social ladder. The Shipman, i.e., the "sailor," is placed between Chaucers description of the Cook and the "Doctor of...

Lighthouse, there is a subtle form of cruelty that thrusts the female protagonist into society as the woman is expected to act lik...

when the Beowulf poet writes "Fate always goes as it must" (43) and "Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good" (...

away from her. She asks him what is the matter. He answers that she is old and ugly and low born. The old woman demonstrates to hi...

In twelve pages the issues of legal, religious and social limitations are considered as they relate to the concepts of control and...

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

In fifteen pages this paper examines how the worth of Sigmund Freud's theories can be measured in these works by Virginia Woolf. ...

silent trout are all lit up hanging, trembling. So she saw them; she heard them; but whatever they said had also this quality, as ...

of the First World War. The first war of the modern era represents a vast social issue and a great change in all human affairs. ...

the Pardoner, himself a representative of the Church. The Seven Deadly Sins are known as pride (vanity), envy, gluttony, lu...

Its almost as if Chaucer chose to include the Parson as a character in order to foil the other characters. In other words, its as...

it "slows the pace of the narrative, heightens suspense, and enhances the tales mock-heroic tone" (p. 69). This appears to ...

if John were easily deceived, Nicholas (the clerk) and Alison (his wife) would not have been forced to devise an complicated plan ...

This paper consists of five pages and discusses the conflict that results from knighthood's overlapping obligations in a comparati...

A paper illustrating themes of spiritual order and disorder in the prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The author dr...

The Parson was a learned man. The Parson: "He was a learned man also, a clerk" (480). "Who Christs own gospel...

In six pages this paper analyzes the ironic satire of Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Reeve's Tale.' There are no other sources cited....

In six pages Geoffrey Chaucer's classic tale is examined from the differing perspectives regarding what Medieval women truly wante...