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Entertainment and Education in Literature

In 5 pages this paper discusses how literature can be both educational as well as entertaining within the precepts of Horace the p...

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 ...

'Troilus and Criseyde' by Geoffrey Chaucer and Love

In six pages this paper discusses how each character feels love differently within the context of this poem by Geoffrey Chaucer. ...

Literary Examples of Desire and Reason

In five pages this research paper examines how literature portrays the conflict between reason and desire in a consideration of Ut...

Medieval Marriage and Women's Roles in 'The Clerk's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

In eight pages this character analysis of Griselda in 'The Clerk's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer discusses how she reflects Medieval p...

'The Miller's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer and Satire

In eight pages this paper examines how Chaucer employs satire to address serious issues in 'The Miller's Tale.' There are 6 sourc...

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...

British Literature 18th vs. 19th Century

in the writings of Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe. Both authors used simple, descriptive, and colorful styles to weave their adve...

British Literature and the Theme of Sin

In fifteen pages this paper discusses how sin is depicted in the Books of Genesis and Romans as well as how it is thematically dev...

17th Century English Literature and Time Significance

In five pages this paper discusses the importance of time in King Lear by William Shakespeare, the play Everyman, and The Canterbu...

Troilus & Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

In four pages this paper discusses how Chaucer rewrote the pagan interpretation of Troy's fall with the inclusion of Medieval Chri...

Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales

This essay delves into the man behind The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer. The author utilizes both an in depth reading of the...

'Tam o'Shanter' by Robert Burns

In five pages this poem by Scottish poet Robert Burns is analyzed with its satirical elements and similarities to Chaucer duly not...

William Shakespeare and the Authors Who Influenced Him

In four pages this paper discusses how the Bible and authors such as Seneca, Virgil, Chaucer, and Marlowe influenced William Shake...

Life of Medieval Author Geoffrey Chaucer

In 5 pages this paper examines the 14th century life, career, and writings of Geoffrey Chaucer that culminated in The Canterbury T...

Courtly Love and 'The Knight's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

In a paper consisting of 5 pages courtly love is defined and discussed within the context of 'The Knight's Tale' by Geoffrey Chauc...

Female Equality Struggle and 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

balance the levels of power each is able to wield. Not a Particularly Likable Woman! Since the Middle Ages of Chaucer and, no dou...

Love in 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

In five pages the ways in which Chaucer presents love in this tale are discussed. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and Themes of Morality and Immorality

In eight pages this paper discusses how Chaucer addressed morality and immorality in such stories as 'The Friar's Tale,' 'The Prio...

Canterbury Tales and Women

twelve years of age" (Chaucer; Wife of Bath Prologue 3-4). In this she is telling the reader that she has had a husband since she ...

Chaucer, St. Luke, Aristophanes and Their View of Social Issues

even screenwriters who disguise them as interesting stories. The original Star Trek was great at teaching these moral lessons whil...

"Gawain and the Greek Knight"/"Wife of Bath's Tale"

face" (lines 444-445)("Sir Gawain" 229). The head then warns Gawain not to forget their agreement, which is that Gawain will submi...

'General Prologue' as an Appropriate Introduction to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

of Gods creation of the universe (Chance 67). According to De Temporibus Anni (the translation of Aelfric), the worlds first day ...

Marie de France by Dante

In three pages this essay considers how the passion Marie de France and her lover share is compared with her contention God suppor...

Hell: A Personal Vision of Hell as Inspired by Dante

This inscription is only a introduction to all that awaits those that enter the gates of Hell and who therefore fail to achieve th...

Faith and Reason in the Thinking of Thomas Aquinas and Dante Alighieri

be an object of science. To this question, Aquinas answers "no." First of all, following the medieval style of reasoning, he posit...