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Control and Authority Reflected in 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer and 'The World of Margery Kempe' by Margery Kempe

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

Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and Gender Relationships

In 5 pages this paper examines gender relationships represented in The Canterbury Tales featuring the Wife of Bath, the Miller, th...

Fragment Unity in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

notice that the fragments belong together, even though they do not necessarily share the same narrator or even the same point of v...

Hierarchy and Authority in 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton

In a paper that consists of 10 pages the Milton's conntention that Adam and Eve's fall was due to the rejection of the husband ove...

Marriage Medieval Style in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

In five pages this paper compares how medieval marriage and women's roles were depicted in 'The Nun's Tale,' 'The Wife of Bath's T...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt in No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin

In five pages this paper examines this biography by Kearns Goodwin as it explores the love between FDR and his wife Eleanor and al...

The Husband's Right to Know and Abortion

In this paper that contains twelve pages famous cases such as Planned Parenthood v. Casey in Pennsylvania consider the husband's r...

Social Oppression in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This essay consists of six pages and compares the social oppression the wives in each story experiences. There is no bibliography...

Marriage in the Literature of the English Restoration

In six pages this paper discusses how marriage and the juxtaposing of gender roles are featured in the English restoration works i...

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...

Influence of Death in the Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe

In six pages the ways in which Poe's poems 'Lenore,' 'The Raven,' 'Annabel Lee,' and 'To Helen' are influenced by the deaths of th...

Edgar Allan Poe and Themes of Sexuality and Death

In ten pages this paper considers how Poe's fascination with morbidity may have been due to losing so many female relatives includ...

Prioress Character in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

In five pages this essay focuses on the Prioress as described in the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales and argues that whil...

'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer and Religion

In six pages this paper examines the religious views of the Wife of Bath as featured in this story from Chaucer's The Canterbury T...

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...

A Description of The Wife of Bath in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

the Wifes character, she obviously liked drawing attention to herself. Additionally, since the kerchiefs were of the "finest wea...

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...

Women and Chaucer's Attitudes in The Canterbury Tales

In three pages this essay considers how Chaucer offered an insightful commentary regarding medieval society's view of women in the...

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...

Pros and Cons of Barbara Gottfried's Article on Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath's Prologue'

of a tale inside of a tale, it can be said. The first point that the Wife of Bath makes, and on which Gottfried comments, is tha...

Circumstance and Characterization

from his self induced stupor. Chris stood and glared at the man. The dim light offered little definition to the mans face, but the...

Evil Theme in William Shakespeare's Macbeth

thoughts terrify him. The fact that Macbeth is thought of as a loyal and noble person at the beginning of the play is made eviden...

Left Wing Writers of China

among the applicable families; however, it was not as welcomed by the rest of the citizenry as clearly evidenced by these five sto...

Slavery as Described by Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs

he raped her and forced her into acts, there is enough information to assume that this is what occurred. And, if it didnt it was s...

Biography of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt

other first ladies of this or any other time. The concept of first lady leadership is easy to define, but it is not as easy to ex...

3 Postmodern Works Analyzed

In six pages this research paper compares how postmodern perspectives manifest themselves in director Peter Greenaway's film The C...

Heloise and Peter Abelard Letters

quarters and castrate him (Chronicles...Gans). Abelard removed himself from society, to a certain extent, by becoming a monk, and ...

I Will Bear Witness, the Diary of Victor Klemperer

numbers of people who had always defined themselves as proud citizens of the country? It is important to understand that Klemperer...

Emilia and Desdemona in William Shakespeare's Othello

In five pages these two wives victimized by their spouses are examined in a similarities and differences comparison and contrast. ...

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...