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Comparing Margaret Atwood Novels Alias Grace and The Handmaid's Tale

that there is always a tidy or satisfactory resolution to the womens dilemmas. In fact, in the case of the intentionally ambiguou...

Social Satire by George Bernard Shaw in Pygmalion and Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales

Tales" Numerous examples of satire exist throughout The Canterbury Tales. In fact, each of the tales and each of the characters o...

Love, Life, and Humor in The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer

In six pages this report considers the characters, their relationships, and how they are portrayed humorously and satirically by C...

Paris and London in Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities

presented with a picture of London where Mr. Darnay understands that he needed to work for what he got. "He had expected labour, a...

Complaint of Dorigen in 'The Franklin's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

who have sacrificed themselves in similar situations. Her husband returns and she tells him of what she has promised. He tells her...

Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, France and England

of ever-growing interest. So, with great perseverance and untiring industry, he prospered" (Dickens NA). We are then presented ...

China and Britain, a Tale of Two Empires

others, and they resisted allowing the Europeans to unduly influence their traditional ways and religion (Hostetler, 2000). Europ...

Literary Overview of 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens

the commoners, Darnay renounces his title to the Evremonde Estate and goes back to England to live. He proposes to Lucie and she a...

The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare and Kingship

He plots to have the Bohemian king poisoned, but Polixenes manages to flee Sicilia unharmed and return to the safety of his homela...

William Shakespeare's Hamlet and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Wife of Bath' from Canterbury Tales

the witch may well have been incredibly deceptive and conniving in her involvement with the knight, and in this we can see the pre...

Women, Medieval Attitudes and The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

the passage is a contrast of literal words and actual underlying meanings. Many times what the Wife says is in direct opposition t...

Characters from The Bible, The Odyssey and Tale of the Genji

the story deals with his infatuations, lusts, loves and relationships. Surprisingly, Genji retains a hard exterior through it all...

A Comparison of the Tales of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Beowulf

warrior society that Beowulf invokes derives from these "newcomers" to the British Isles. Abrams, et al also state that in this wa...

William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, and the Presence of Oracles

matters into his own hands, a reality perhaps perceived by the oracle. He believes the predictions of the witches, and thinks that...

'The Pardoner's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

In seven pages this paper examines the Pardoner's actions within the context of Christianity in a pro and con assessment that conc...

Theme of Nature The Canterbury Tales and Beowulf

understanding the deeper connections and interpretations of the characters who populate Chaucers work. Those deeper connections cl...

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale' and the Film Adaptation

This 5 page paper compares and contrasts the Medieval story with the film version. There are 2 bibliographic sources that are cit...

Protagonist's Gradual Development in The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

In six pages this paper examines how the primary character is gradually developed and how the text portrays the court of Kyoto. T...

Feminist Discourse in 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

he marries her. He agrees and she tells him that women want the power. He returns to the king and queen and his life is spared by ...

Animals in the Fairy Tales of The Brothers Grimm

and upper-class Germans, yet even those tales were traced from India and the Middle East (Schulte-Peevers). They were passed down ...

Comparing Kate Chopin Tales 'The Story of an Hour' and 'Desiree's Baby'

felt a sense of liberation she had never known before. She could support herself and write about the subjects she felt passionate...

Heroism in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

obviously keenly intelligent, and it is clear that, if he applied himself, he could have achieved any goal to which he might have ...

Characterization in the General Prologue of Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

the "decorum of natural, as well as social, order," is preserved (Williams 31). The description of the Knight in the General Prolo...

Catholic Church Corruption and The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

In six pages the corruption that existed in the Medieval Catholic Church as reflected in the text in the irony of the characters i...

Plagiarism, William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale, and Robert Greene's Pandosto

Information). Shakespeare certainly changed the characters names - but made few more changes. Greenes Pandosto, King of Bohemia be...

Freedom and The Handmaid's Tale

in the United States. The people recognize the failure of capitalism and see socialism as a solution. Within Marxs paradigm, there...

Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and Order

of Law, the Squire, the Merchant and only then the Wife of Bath. After the Summoners Tale, the "b" group again diverges and offers...

Bodily Functions and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale

a month for the sole purpose of procreation, they are now in a place where its very risky to be seen. But they are there at the C...

Lian Hearn's Tales of the Otori, Book I

person whose life has been turned upside down. Living nearby in a castle is Kaede. She is the daughter of a noble family who were...

Feminism and Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale'

"a shrewd businesswoman in an emergent bourgeoisie, a master of parody providing a corrective to the truths of conventional autho...