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Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Shipman's Tale'

more, this is obvious. We see the complications arise at a particular party: "This noble marchaunt heeld a worthy hous,/ For which...

Women as Objects

the reader is actually living the life of Offred, seeing and making the same assumptions she is making. This style of approach to...

Setting in the Works of Edgar Allan Poe

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

An Address of Four Specific Questions in Literature

him an hour just to move his head into the room. The protagonist exclaims, "Ha! Would a madman have been so wise as this?" which i...

Questions on 9 Stories Answered

meant to illustrate the dichotomy between and among all the interwoven traits attributed to a girl of her age. On the one hand, s...

American Immigration Theories

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

A Reading of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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

Use of Allegory in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Becoming a Man in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

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

Masculinity in The Tale of Genji

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

How Shirley Jackson Employs Allegory in Her Tale, 'The Possibility of Evil'

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

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes Mysteries' The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Red Headed League, and The Adventure of the Speckled Band

most minute of clues. (After all: "There is no vehicle save a dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you sit...

Comparative Analysis of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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

Themes of Good and Evil in Edgar Allan Poe

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

Female Protagonists in Ernest Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants and Anton Chekhov's The Darling

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

Esther Burr's Journal and Eliza Southgate Browne's Letters

that most of her time was spent in some form of entertaining or conversation with one person or another. From this perspective t...

Character Analysis of the Old Man in 'The Pardoner's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

told that Death took his life. Quite in the drunken state they vow to find Death and to make him pay. They find directions to wh...

Nathaniel Hawthorne and Post Sin Lack of Mortal Salvation in 'The Minister's Black Veil' and 'Young Goodman Brown'

(Coale 43). In the story, the newlywed Brown leaves Faith, his bride of three months, to take a walk into a forest that no decent...

Graham Greene's The Destructors and D.H. Lawrence's 'The Rocking Horse Winner'

world, in which society is restructuring itself after the devastation of the war - a devastation which T, at least, seems to feel ...

Women in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and in Boccaccio's Decameron

away from her. She asks him what is the matter. He answers that she is old and ugly and low born. The old woman demonstrates to hi...

Comparing Sherazade and Aziyade

From what many can piece together, Aziyade did really exist. She was a Circassian slave owned by an old Turkish nobleman. She was ...

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, T.S. Eliot's 'The Mill on the Floss' and Narrative Perspective

had a daughter who loved him"; however, Maggie received no such indications either from her father" or from Tom--the two idols of ...

Good Detective Fiction and a Consideration of The Adventures of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

grounds of how it reflects the necessary criteria of a good detective story, which characteristically includes the elements of cri...

Moral Attributes and History of Balzac's Colonel Chabert

shocked when driving a short distance from the slums of inner cities to the world of wealthy suburbs?" But it is not...

A Review of The Pardoner's Tale

extremely outspoken. One of his strongest skills it seems is public speaking. In fact, he is a performer! These characteristics ...

Critical Views of Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath

makes the point that although Alisoun has been defined as trying to eliminate authority altogether, in the sense that she seems to...

Short Story Characters in Gilman, Poe, and Bierce

room do not hear, the "hypocritical smiles" that are not there. He screams and tells them the heart is under the planks. He believ...

Feminist Literature and Issues

in order to be educated at a missionary school since her British uncle runs the school. What happens as a result is that Tambu co...

Themes of Good and Evil in Two Works by Poe and Morrison

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

Morality Tale Vathek by William Beckford

indicative of a disdain for authoritarian institutions. Vathek is a powerful man who indulges in vast excesses. Beckford makes it ...