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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...

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. ...

General Prologue: Canterbury Tales

they may be actively attempting to simply present some facts and remain objective. But, even in remaining objective there will be ...

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...

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...

Life in Mount Sinai, New York

Sinai, New York. It seems that members of the community treat us well. Do they treat people who are different less well? In gener...

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...

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...

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...

Logic of Life by Tim Harford

successfully wean people from this dangerous habit. He reports that economic analysis finds that "advertising for nicotine patch a...

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...

Select Canterbury Tales

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

Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie from a Humanistic Perspective

He reminds Albom (and readers) that, "Death is as natural as life. Its part of the deal we made" (Albom, 1997, p. 172). Everyone...

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...

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...

Five Tales of Anti Feminism

In five pages the anti feminist handling of female characters in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet, Chaucer's The Wi...

Life and Times of Vlad Tepes, the Original Dracula

out of the hands of Vlad the III. (Vlad 1996) Vlad III eventually did manage to regain the thrown of Walachia by conspiring with...

Masculinity and Its Nature

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

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...

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 ...

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...

'Alysoun' Medieval Poem Explication

alliterative verse in the fourteenth century (Middle English Lyrics). However, beyond technical aspects of English poetry during...

Medieval Women

"bodily integrity" on women are simply not present. Likewise, in regards to formal written statutes that pertain to the possession...

Medieval Peasantry and Nobility

In five pages this paper examines Medieval Europe in a consideration of noble and peasant lives. Five sources are cited in the bi...