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The Shipman in The Canterbury Tales

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

Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" And O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" - Evil

4 pages in length. Evil - a self-perpetuating entity of myriad literary tales - presents itself as a force that challenges the ve...

'The Wife of Bath' Prologue and Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer

of Solomon and his many wives to basically justify her own marriages. Thus, we can see her as the devil who uses Scripture to suit...

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...

'The Monk's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer and Religious Hypocrisy

In six pages this paper examines the religious hypocrisy represented in the Monk's personality in this Canterbury Tales' story. S...

Canterbury Tales Contemporary Poems

In 4 pages this paper examines how two Canterbury Tales' pilgrims are presented in 2 contemporary poems. There are no sources in ...

Tom Outlander and the Cave Dwellers

In 10 pages this paper examines the Tom Outlander tale's themes and cave dwellers in an analysis of The Professor's House by Willa...

Evil in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

In a paper consisting of twelve pages the presence of evil particularly in terms of the anti Semitism of 'The Pardoner's Tale' and...

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...

A Comparison of The Physician's and Clerk's Tales in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

This research paper analyzes two portions of Chaucer's famous work, The Canterbury Tales. The author puts forth the proposition t...

Dante's Characterization in 'Inferno'

In six pages the reasons why Dante elected to utilize himself as protagonist in 'Divine Comedy' are analyzed in a consideration of...

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and Themes of Destiny and Choice

In six pages 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and 'The Knight's Tale' are discussed in order to examine how the themes of destiny and cho...

Choosing the Right Path in Conflict

The human element can bring two seemingly mutually exclusive tales and ideas together. This essay uses Maus, A Survivor's Tale by ...

Credibility and Creation of Character in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

In eight pages each of the five Canterbury Tales' pilgrim's stories are used in order to examine how Chaucer's employment of langu...

Twenty First Century, the Humanities, and the Classics

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

Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and Life Choices

In five pages the ways in which life choices are represented in 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and 'The Knight's Tale' are contrasted a...

Past and Present Fairy Tales

human spiritual life and then comes back with a message." The usual heros adventure will start with someone "from whom something ...

'Man of Law's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

In five pages this research pape considers the era of Geoffrey Chaucer and Medieval literary customs in this comparative examinati...

Medieval Women and the Concepts of Honor and Dishonor

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

Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and Body Portrayal

In six pages the Tales' General Prologue is the focus of this examination of the human body's significance during the Middle Ages ...

Society and Marriage According to Various Literary Interpretations

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares the marriage perspectives of Mary Astell and Margery Kempe and discusses how society ...

Analysis of Griselda

In fifteen pages this research paper provides an analysis of Griselda as featured in the Clerk's tale in The Canterbury Tales by G...

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...

Theories on the Advancement of Knowledge

In this five page paper the author questions whether the many advancements that have been made in knowledge are the result of evol...

Notorious Scopes' 'Monkey Trial'

In twelve pages this paper discusses the intense creationism v. evolution debate this trial sparked in a consideration of evolutio...

Evolution and Creationism

Darwin while suggesting that biblical scholars attack the scientist and the scenario has never been the other way around (1995). I...

Animal and Plant Evolution

In five pages paths of evolution taken by animals and plants are contrasted and compared in this overview of chloroplast and mitoc...

Evolution and Creationism Debate

In five pages this paper considers the ongoing evolution v. creationism debate in a consideration of a Kansas school board decisio...

Systems Thinking

a network within ecological communities that provided organisms with the means to life. In 1928, a Hungarian biologist, Ludwig vo...

Speech Recognition as a Tool for Human and Computer Interaction

were made in the 1950s, in fact. Bell Labs, for example, developed the capability within the telephone industry to recognize spok...