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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 ...

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...

Past and Present Fairy Tales

human spiritual life and then comes back with a message." The usual heros adventure will start with someone "from whom something ...

Discussing Some of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

in turn seduce the wife and/or daughter of the miller. In the end a ridiculous fight breaks out wherein the students seem to win, ...

Fragment Unity in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

notice that the fragments belong together, even though they do not necessarily share the same narrator or even the same point of v...

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...

Geoffrey Chaucer's Writings and Bird Symbolism

natural fears and perplexities and institutionalize social views (Malinowski 11). These stories and the use of language, then, de...

Canterbury Tales: The Shipman and the Wife of Bath

acting as a prostitute. When the merchant comes home and finds out she got the money from the monk, without knowing she slept with...

3 Canterbury Tales and their Story Morals

In 6 pages this paper analyzes the morals in the selections 'The Wife of Bath's Tale,' 'The Nun's Priest's Tale,' and 'The Miller'...

The Canterbury Tales and the Discussion of Love

In five pages this paper examines how contrasting attitudes about love are represented in The Knight's Tale, The Wife of Bath's Ta...

Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and Social Class

a man who liked to demonstrate his position as more than it honestly was, socially speaking. "He hid his debt well. He wore daintl...

Fear of Death and Geoffrey Chaucer

In five pages the fears Chaucer expressed about death particularly in 'The Nun's Priest Tale,' 'The Pardoner's Tale,' and 'The Mil...

Justifying Authority

The ways in which authority has been justified in literature is examined in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale,' William ...

Supreme Principle of Morality by Immanuel Kant

In six pages this research paper defines morality within the context of Kant's philosophy and also considers supreme morality's va...

Morality According to Immanuel Kant and David Hume

the considerations surrounding his concepts of the mind and he supports his contentions with direct demonstrations of the applicab...

A Discussion of Three Concepts

IQ and has long been a widely used method, particularly with regard to gifted or educationally-challenged children. The results o...

'The Miller's Tale,' 'The Shipman's Tale,' and 'The Cook's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

These ribald stories featured in The Canterbury Tales and the class conflicts they represent are discussed in this paper consistin...

Andrew Lang as the Arabian Nights' Storyteller

In eleven pages this paper discusses how Andrew Lang becomes a storyteller in his vivid portrayal of the Arabian Nights' tales whi...

A Story by a Slave Trader

book appears to be a candid recollection by someone who was not troubled enough by what he was doing to stop it. Theodore Conneau...

Morality and Characterization in Oliver Twist

Different aspects of this Dickens tale are discussed in depth. Morality as well as characterization are issues given attention. An...

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...

Tartuffe by Moliere

In six pages this paper examines Moliere's satirical morality tale and its open theater impact. Four sources are cited in the bib...

C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and the Elements of Fairy Tale

of some moral message in the end. Through danger the characters are made stronger, and they are developed more powerfully, truly p...

Dona Sebastiana

which "comprises a stunning class-conscious critique of Christian hypocrisy and the Churchs complicity with the rich" (Padilla 150...

"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...

Three Tales in Susan Whitfield's Life Along the Silk Road ” by Susan Whitfield: The Princess's Tale, The Monk's Tale and The Nun's Tale

their vital supply of cavalry ponies" and Taihe and those who had come before her were also vital in the maintenance of this frien...

Select Canterbury Tales

Introduction Geoffrey Chaucers Canterbury Tales are truly timeless stories that tell the reader something of the history of Europ...

Details as Storytelling Style and Strategy of Geoffrey Chaucer

the poets compositional strategy. She is one of Chaucers best-known and most discussed characters, primarily because she challenge...

Chaucer, Deceit and Medieval Honor

The Miller's Tale and the Pardoner's Tale from Chaucers' Canterbury Tales are compared in this paper to Beowulf and Sir Gawain and...

Themes of Irony in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales

add that "Irony is likely to be confused with sarcasm but it differs from sarcasm in that it is usually lighter, less harsh in its...