SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Chaucers View of Religion The Canterbury Tales

Essays 781 - 810

Depiction of Merlin, Monmouth, and Briton by Geoffrey Monmouth

In ten pages this paper discusses national identity within the context of Geoffrey Monmonth's heroic tale and includes the nationa...

Times of War, Art, and Music

In eight pages this paper examines the music and art popular during war times in a consideration of Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacc...

Mirrored Consciousness Examples

In five pages this report considers The Mirror of Consciousness by Henry James and the author's contention that situation reaction...

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....

Lost Speech Symbolism in Damascus Nights by Rafik Schami

In five pages this text is compared in terms of similarities and symbolism with Arabian Nights' tales and the loss of speech is eq...

Art of Tall Tales

In five pages this paper examines tall tales as an art form in a consideration of its exaggeration and storytellers including Pe...

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Albrecht Durer

the Reformation. Durers early work reflected the ideas of the Middle Ages, but his later compositions are a complex, yet an enlig...

'The Odyssey' by Homer, the Book of Genesis, Retribution and Faith

In a paper consisting of six pages this paper examines how the themes of faith anf retribution are reprsented in the 'Noah and the...

Cargo Cultists and John Frum

In 5 pages this paper discusses the religious mimicking featured in the John Frum tale in a consideration of the cargo cultists. ...

Themes of Jean Paul Sartre as Perceived by Friedrich Nietzsche

In five pages this paper considers how Nietzsche might evaluate Sartre's primary themes and then consider how The Handmaiden's Tal...

Odysseus' Tale in Homer's 'The Odyssey'

In five pages this paper considers Odysseus' heroic tale as described in Homer's poetic epic 'The Odyssey.' There are no other so...

Dune by Frank Herbert and 'The Mahdinate'

In five pages this paper examines Dune's theme of the Mahdi or Messiah in this futuristic science fiction tale written by Frank He...

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

This tale by Charles Dickens and its Christmas philosophy representation in Western culture are discussed in 5 pages. There are 7...

Short Stories by Jack London and Edgar Allan Poe on Death

In seven pages this paper examines how the theme of death is handled in London's short stories 'The Law of Life' and 'To Build a F...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Color Green

In two pages this paper examines what the color green means in this Medieval tale. There are no other sources listed....

The Rude Mechanicals and Their Significance in A Midsummer Night's Dream

In five pages this research paper concentrates on how Shakespeare uses the rude mechanicals and the true purpose they serve in thi...

Symbolism in The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

This paper consists of five pages and discusses the symbolism that is evident in the title and throughout William Shakespeare's pl...

Criminal or Detective Sherlock Holmes

In five pages the private eye with a love of cocaine and morphine are considered in this examination of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1...

Comparative Analysis of How Mood, Atmosphere, and Place Are Used in 'The Horse Dealer's Daughter' by D.H. Lawrence and 'Barn Burning' by William Faulkner

His soul seemed to melt...He had never thought of loving her...When he rescued her and restored her, he was a doctor, and she was ...

Literary Heroes Come of Age

The tale of a hero becoming an adult is a staple of literature. This essay compares heroes Han Solo and Odysseus, Luke Skywalker a...

'Oriental Tale' Motif and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler

In two pages this paper examines the motif of the 'Oriental Tale' in terms of its significance to the relationship between the sto...

The Short Reign of Queen Mary I of England

A 6 page discussion of Bloody Mary, the heartless queen that became known for her relentless tactics. Mary did not hesitate to bu...

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 ...

Govinda's Importance in Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

willingness to be led. He seeks truth but truth as a facet of faith rather than truth as a realization brought on through experie...

Gaelic Ulster Mythical Cycle

In six pages this paper discusses the Ulster Cycle in a consideration of characters, tales, legends, and myths. Ten sources are c...

Children's Fairy Tales and Their Morals

In three pages this paper discusses how preschool children learn morals and important life lessons through fairy tales. Five sour...

A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

see the beauty of everyday life, of children laughing, of planting a garden, of building ones own world in midst of all the change...

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...

Contrasting and Comparing Plot Motifs in George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland

In five pages the plot motifs featured in each of these tales are contrasted and compared. Two sources are cited in the bibliogra...

English Language Development from Geoffrey Chaucer to Samuel Johnson

that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was gouernor of Syria) And all went to bee taxed...