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The Wife of Bath - A Feminist Analysis

"I will now offer you my tale" on line 193, but then carries on with scholarly and scriptural justifications for another 600 lines...

"The Tiger's Bride" and "Beauty and the Beast" - A Comparison

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at "The Tiger's Bride" and the classic fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast". Thematic diff...

A Modern Fairy Tale, Edward Scissorhands

This essay presents the argument that "Edward Scissorhands," directed by Tim Burton, is a modern, gothic-tinged version of the fai...

The Hobbit An Analysis

Tolkiens children's tale was significantly revised after its initial publication in 1937. There are five sources in this six page...

Various Approaches to Love in Literature

This essay presents an overview of how love is used thematic in various texts, which includes Dante's Divine Comedy, Chaucer's Can...

Chaucer's View of Religion, The Canterbury Tales

This essay pertains to the clergy members who are part of Chaucer's band of travelers in "The Canterbury Tales." The writer argues...

Confessions of Nat Turner, An Analysis

This paper focuses on "The Confessions of Nat Turner" and discusses the layer quality of the narrative. The writer also compares t...

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...

"Othello" and The Canterbury Tales, Portrayal of Women

This essay pertains to the portrayal of women in "Othello," focusing on Desdemona, and in The Canterbury Tales, focusing on the Wi...

The Thirteenth Century French Greyhound St Guineforte

Although the tale of St. Guineforte revolved to a large degree around Christian iconography and teachings, it was condemned by the...

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 ...

A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell

In five pages Glaspell's tale is analyzed in a consideration of setting and characterization. There are no other sources cited....

Lost Speech Symbolism in Damascus Nights by Rafik Schami

In five pages this text is compared in terms of similarities and symbolism with Arabian Nights' tales and the loss of speech is eq...

Art of Tall Tales

In five pages this paper examines tall tales as an art form in a consideration of its exaggeration and storytellers including Pe...

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Albrecht Durer

the Reformation. Durers early work reflected the ideas of the Middle Ages, but his later compositions are a complex, yet an enlig...

Community-Oriented Policing Policy

toward improving quality of life" and this goal entails the factor of problem solving (Peed, 2008, p. 22). By focusing on the un...

The Roles of Offred and Moira in “The Handmaid’s Tale”

"We are two-legged wombs, thats all; sacred vessels, ambulatory chalices" (Atwood, 1986, p. 136). Because they are fertile they ...

Allegory and Exemplum in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

are knit by Chaucer into a complex tapestry in this allegorical tale, illustrating the instability of lifes joys, but also the sam...

Two by Poe: “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart”

fact. In "The Black Cat," the narrator tells readers that he was "docile" and "tender of heart" as a youth, and that he retained t...

Herman Melville’s Piazza Tales

(Melville The Piazza). In this one sees that the narrator values her life perhaps, but not his own, while she values much. This na...

Edgar Allan Poe, Suicidal Tendencies, and ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’

at 4 a.m., his guilty conscience elicits the narrators confession. Is this an example of another Poe murder mystery or does it re...

The Case of Dr. Carl Bennett

would cause him to keep a distance from other children, such as twitching behavior, bands on his teeth, and glasses (Sacks 85). Fr...

RELIGIOUS BELIEF AND JAPANESE LITERATURE

Century Japan. Much like Genji, Bridge of Dreams has the same lyrical, almost dreamy prose to it. But unlike the men in Genji auth...

Maximus In Catland: Philosophical Messages For Parents And Children Alike

the very nerve of human existence, both good and bad. Writers like Izzo attempt to reach out to their audiences by way of specifi...

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...

Poe and The Tell-Tale Heart, a Reaction

when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...

'General Prologue' as an Appropriate Introduction to The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

of Gods creation of the universe (Chance 67). According to De Temporibus Anni (the translation of Aelfric), the worlds first day ...

Ninth Day, Sixth Story and the Reeve's Tale

as an "honest man" who kept a "little hut for the entertainment of travelers, serving them with meat and drink" but seldom offerin...

Boccaccio and Chaucer

A Pardoner, in medieval times, had the task of collecting money for the charitable enterprises that were supported by the church (...

Canterbury Tales and The Song of Roland

should control the entire known world and so the theme of religion, and the power of religious men, was not questioned in The Song...