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'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...

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 ...

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 ...

Exercise in Dante's 'Inferno'

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...

Connection Between 'The Wife of Bath's Prologue' and 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

virginity"(Gottfried, 205). Many times what the Wife says is in direct opposition to what the reader/listener knows that the Wife...

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. ...

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...

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...

Analyzing Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The second analysis involves Victors perspectives of women and the monsters perspective of women. Victor is obsessed with his moth...

Offred Character in The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Offred, whose first-person narrative comprises most of the text, falls somewhere between the two female extremes. Her first-perso...

Nguyen Du's The Tale of Kieu

from the former Le Dynasty, which explains why Nguyen Du was unwilling to join the new government" (The Tale of Kieu: Vietnams Epi...

The Canterbury Tales and the Ideal Characters of Geoffrey Chaucer

but more than that he is dedicated to God in his heart. The Parson is an example of a man who lives in accordance with what he pr...

Reader Impact of the Placement of 'The Miller's Tale' Within The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

the Knights tale. In actuality what he probably meant was that he will make the Knights tale look tame in comparison to his own. T...

An Occurrence at Owl Creek by Bierce

point out that the subject of death and dying has taken on new meaning in recent times. There is now recognition of similar events...

Literature's Faust Legend

In six pages this research paper analyzes literature's various Faustian tales in a consideration of their timelessness. Four sour...

Social Satire in 'he Reeve's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

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

A Critique of Various Works By Nathaniel Hawthorne

This paper analyzes several of Hawthorne's books, including The Scarlet Letter, Mosses From an Old Manse, The House of the Seven G...

A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell

In five pages Glaspell's tale is analyzed in a consideration of setting and characterization. There are no other sources cited....

Depiction of Death in Don DeLillo's White Noise

In five pages this paper analyzes how death is depicted in Don DeLillo's postmodern tale White Noise. One source is listed in the...

Desert Hearts by Donna Deitch and Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule

In five pages this report compares Donna Deitch's 1985 film to Jane Rule's 1964 novel. There are no secondary sources listed....

Uchida's Desert Exile by Yoshiko

Iin five pages this paper analyzes author objectivity in this personal tale of Japanese American internment camps in the US during...

Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House and Henry James' The Turn of the Screw

In eight pages these two supernatural tales are analyzed in a comparison and contrast of similarities and differences. There are ...

Death's Role and Meaning in Fairy Tales

necessity. Beyond the obvious, however, lurks an even deeper meaning to the employment of death as an integral part of fairy tale...

Fairytales and the Portrayal of Women

In seven pages this paper analyzes Grimm's Fairy Tales in terms of the portrayal of women and how this reflects the roles they pla...

Oedipus and Jason

In five pages the tales of Oedipus and Jason are analyzed in terms of the differences and similarities that exist between them. T...

Structure and Struggle in Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

In four pages this 'nightmare' tale examines the protagonist's struggles and also analyzes the novel's structure. Three sources a...

Conveyance and Point of View Manipulation in Turn of the Screw by Henry James

appear to be fraternizing with ghosts, are not so much the focus of the story as the governess, who begins questioning if what she...

Pardoner's Sexuality in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

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

'Chaucerian Wordplay: The Nun's Priest and His Womman Divyne' Review

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