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The Decameron and The Canterbury Tales Parallels

In five pages this paper examines the parallels in these collections of stories especially as they relate to the charcoal of Friar...

The Tell-Tale Heart

a disease but madness surely is. And, his insistence that this "disease" has actually increased his skills and his awareness is fu...

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

stir" as it was the date of a double festival: that of the Festival of the Three Kings and that of the Feast of Fools (Hugo, I, I)...

War Stories and Fear

purpose, changes due to his experience in war. In OBriens work, similar elements are shown, but not in terms of how war affects on...

Chaucer, Beowulf, and Lifestyles

rural lifestyle. Lacey and Danziger comment that the popular image of the medieval hall, with its rush-covered floor and central f...

'Ideal' Parson in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales

Its almost as if Chaucer chose to include the Parson as a character in order to foil the other characters. In other words, its as...

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...

Jonathan Swift and Modernity

by pairing books against each other, thus pitting classical works against modern counterparts. For instance, Swift includes such ...

Dark Stories of Gaitskill and Braverman_

track marks still showed. The fact that Lenny articulates the protagonists hidden thoughts and desires provides substantiation th...

The Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe

a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...

True Love, Women's Desires, and 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer

In five pages twelve lines of this famous tale are analyzed in terms of how it provides a true love commentary and represents an e...

A General Overview of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

The author presents an overview of certain tales from Chaucer's famous work. The paper also delves into character analysis and so...

Marriage in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales -Merchant and Wife of Bath

A paper comparing and contrasting the views of marriage by two of Chaucer's characters in The Canterbury Tales, the Merchant and t...

Themes of Order and Disorder in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

A paper illustrating themes of spiritual order and disorder in the prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The author dr...

Epic of Sunjata, Efuru, and Things Fall Apart Compared

In a paper consisting of six pages these three African novels written by Fa Digi Sisoko, Flora Nwapa, and Chinua Achebe are compar...

Criminal or Detective Sherlock Holmes

In five pages the private eye with a love of cocaine and morphine are considered in this examination of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1...

Contrasting and Comparing Plot Motifs in George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland

In five pages the plot motifs featured in each of these tales are contrasted and compared. Two sources are cited in the bibliogra...

'Oriental Tale' Motif and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler

In two pages this paper examines the motif of the 'Oriental Tale' in terms of its significance to the relationship between the sto...

Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House and Henry James' The Turn of the Screw

In eight pages these two supernatural tales are analyzed in a comparison and contrast of similarities and differences. There are ...

Analysis of 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

She is never allowed any control over her environment or her circumstances. Her opinions are always discounted by her husband. Whe...

Gilgamesh, Genesis: Comparing Floods

This essay contrasts and compares the way that the "Epic of Gilgamesh" and Genesis describe the Flood. The writer argues that the ...

The Iliad and "The Knight's Tale"

This essay presented an argument that Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale" reflects the ideals of Homer's The Iliad. Four pages in lengt...

US Future and The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

hold much power today. One author notes that the novel of Atwoods specifically seems to target "fundamentalist Protestants in Amer...

Sad Stories of Love: Tristan and His Parents

one last time. As this indicates, the love of Tristans parents is similar in intensity to that of Tristan and Isolde. As with the ...

Edgar Allan Poe's 'A Threat In His Mind'

ill person - a person who might easily be Poe himself. Poes preoccupation with humanitys darker side could very well have perpetu...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Color Green

In two pages this paper examines what the color green means in this Medieval tale. There are no other sources listed....

Real Life Fairy Tales and Myths

stories that depict women as helpless, or looking for a Prince charming. The same people who say that the stories are too violent ...

Uchida's Desert Exile by Yoshiko

Iin five pages this paper analyzes author objectivity in this personal tale of Japanese American internment camps in the US during...

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

This 5 page paper discusses two subjects with regard to The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. One topic is the narrative structu...

The Tell-Tale Heart and the Doppelganger Image

WILL you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them" (Poe). He describes himself as "v...