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Pardoner's Sexuality in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

In five pages this paper analyzes the Pardoner's sexuality in a consideration of the stories from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey...

A Hero in Print and Throughout Time

the path to order by bringing structure to the process of understanding. The classical hero was one who was brave, honest, pious ...

The Narrator's Role in The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

is almost always away on business, and the only permanent residents, in addition to the governess and the children is the stern an...

Pandosto by Robert Greene and The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare

the ability to turn something that would be described today as "mass market" or "pulp" fiction into a story that has been able to ...

Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and its Allegories

the next line. Its primary purpose is to establish a series of repetition in the name of sensible progression. For those words a...

'Chaucerian Wordplay: The Nun's Priest and His Womman Divyne' Review

it "slows the pace of the narrative, heightens suspense, and enhances the tales mock-heroic tone" (p. 69). This appears to ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and the Character of the Host Harry Bailly

remainder of the text, both literally as well as figuratively speaking. According to the narrator, Bailly "cut such a figure, all...

Comedy and Tragedy of William Shakespeare

her husband in their youthful days. She loves Polixenes as a brother because he is the best and oldest friend of her husband. In t...

Totalitarianism in the Works of George Orwell and Margaret Atwood

that instead of continued efforts toward gender equality, the social "pendulum" might actually carry society backward in regards t...

Geoffrey Chaucer's Writings and How They Were Affected by His Life

songs and lays had been the product of his youthful years, and that he acquired a reputation for songs as well as jocular tales (P...

Canterbury Tales and Women

twelve years of age" (Chaucer; Wife of Bath Prologue 3-4). In this she is telling the reader that she has had a husband since she ...

Women in the Literary Works of Edward A. Abbott and Thomas More

to take up arms; they are not compelled as are the men. They are also encouraged to strive professionally and intellectually and c...

Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and the 3 Castes

the classes. The prologue describes each character and framework of each story. Upon inspection, none of the characters are comple...

Ancient Irish Tale 'How Ronan Slew His Son'

not take a sedate woman? That would be more fitting than a little skittish thing of a girl." However, Ronan could not be stopped, ...

Why a Change May Fail

refers to this as unfreezing as it is aimed at unfreezing the attitudes of the employees and prepares them for change (Huczynski a...

Atwood/The Handmaid's Tale

purely in terms of their ability to create a child. Offred has been robbed of her identity and objectified because it is her socie...

Mulan, Within the Context of Early Chinese Poetry

Allen 6). This poem clearly indicates the focus of cultural focus on women that stresses their role in terms of sexual desire an...

Natural Religion in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d'Ubervilles

Thomas Hardys "Tess of the dUbervilles" was written in 1891. This was a time when the role...

Satire: 12th Night vs. Miller's Tale

This essay discusses Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" and Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale." The writer asserts that Chaucer's narrative ...

"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...

Chaucer's Merchant and Archetypes

role as archetypes of classes of humanity, Blake identifies many of the figures with the characters of Greek myth, whom also alleg...