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that instead of continued efforts toward gender equality, the social "pendulum" might actually carry society backward in regards t...

her husband in their youthful days. She loves Polixenes as a brother because he is the best and oldest friend of her husband. In t...

remainder of the text, both literally as well as figuratively speaking. According to the narrator, Bailly "cut such a figure, all...

with the color of Oz, which is lush and green. In Oz, Dorothy has many adventures, but keeps working to find a way to get back ho...

not take a sedate woman? That would be more fitting than a little skittish thing of a girl." However, Ronan could not be stopped, ...

to take up arms; they are not compelled as are the men. They are also encouraged to strive professionally and intellectually and c...

deed, he nevertheless is overcome by his guilt which seems to lead him to insanity. He begins the story however by not denying his...

"General Prologue" of The Canterbury Tales, is one of only two pilgrims who tells no story of his own (Conlee 36). While critic J...

the Pardoner, himself a representative of the Church. The Seven Deadly Sins are known as pride (vanity), envy, gluttony, lu...

with immediate commercial success, however, it was later transferred to screen with a film adaptation, indicating the real value t...

The illuminated first page of "The Knights Tale" can be viewed at http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/knightel.jpg. The student resea...

and hoor; /Thanne is a wife the fruit of his tresor" (Chaucer 55-58). At this point, it is not certain that Januarie sees, as ce...

tells him of what she has promised. He tells her that she must keep her promises and that he will respect her for doing so. But, a...

There is, as is the case with any novel, a clear power of theme behind this comical tale of ones journey as a goat. Many have argu...

the contractors were building shoddy buildings, and nobody was getting reported for any of it. Of course Guttierez had no knowled...

the ability to turn something that would be described today as "mass market" or "pulp" fiction into a story that has been able to ...

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

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

events during his and previous eras in history" (Tolisano, 2002; tolisano.htm). In better understanding how Chaucer did use all...

journey from the court to the Green Castle, illustrating how the travels are obviously a metaphor for the journey from childhood t...

(Handlin 75). This was also the reason, although Handlin doesnt state it as such, that immigrants tended to feel more comfortable ...

imagine the author mocking him in the following description, "Having quite lost his wits, he fell into one of the strangest conce...

the classes. The prologue describes each character and framework of each story. Upon inspection, none of the characters are comple...

Pegasus. Every morning he woke and sharpened his blades while everyone else was at breakfast. When we finished eating he would ...

- Chapter 4 - The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Fiction). Poe seemed to regard society and the Industrial Revolution in particular ...

It is this "darling," who, according to Chekhov, "could not exist without loving" (Chekhov, 2002). She falls in love with Kukin, w...

slept wherever he could. For associating with Huckleberry Finn, Tom was whipped by the schoolmaster and ordered to sit on the girl...

women throughout history. In these respects we see how Genji is attractive. Genji seems to know what women feel, how they think,...

or purchased by her ancestors. For example, she notes the rugs that her mother and her grandmother made in her house that was buil...

of the protagonist that Poe sets up the terror inherent in the story. The sheer madness of his thought processes are chilling, bu...