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Entertainment and Education in Literature

In 5 pages this paper discusses how literature can be both educational as well as entertaining within the precepts of Horace the p...

Children and Their Role in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

In eight pages this research paper examines children's role in Medieval society in a consideration to their portrayal in The Cante...

Variety In the Structure of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

This paper examines the concepts of form, function, and variety utilized by Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales. This eleven page pap...

Pardoner's Intelligence in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Pardoner's Tale'

In 5 pages this paper discusses the intellectual abilities of the pardoner that is featured in one of The Canterbury Tales by Geof...

Classical Literature, Character Vision and Irony

In five pages this paper discusses irony and lack of vision in such works as The Canterbury Tales, The Decameron, Lysistrata, and ...

Courtesy in Gawain, the Green Knight & Chaucer's Tales

issues of courtesy will be evaluated in order to determine whether or not invoking its precepts is a help or hindrance in civilize...

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 ...

Classic Literary Poets, Searchers, Lovers, and Heroes

In six pages this paper examines these character genres and how they occasionally have coincided or overlapped throughout literary...

Feminist and Anti-Feminist Themes in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

He returns to the witch who then tells him he can have an ugly and faithful wife in her, or a beautiful and unfaithful woman. He a...

Critical Views of Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath

makes the point that although Alisoun has been defined as trying to eliminate authority altogether, in the sense that she seems to...

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and the Clergy

their own parishes, while outside of this structure were the minor orders that included the monks, nuns, and friars (Cox 57)....

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...

Boccaccio and Chaucer

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

Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, Love and Romance

eventually escapes with the same hopes that one day he may win the love of Emelye. While hiding in the bushes he sees Arcite and h...

William Wordsworth and Geoffrey Chaucer

life was perhaps like in Medieval times. Looking at each individual story, however, would take a considerable amount of time an...

A Look at the Parson and the Pardoner in Canterbury Tales

relishes the fact that he finally has the opportunity to share what he considers to be his innate brilliance. He knows that this ...

The Canterbury Tales and the Ideal Characters of Geoffrey Chaucer

but more than that he is dedicated to God in his heart. The Parson is an example of a man who lives in accordance with what he pr...

Choosing the Right Path in Conflict

The human element can bring two seemingly mutually exclusive tales and ideas together. This essay uses Maus, A Survivor's Tale by ...

Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" And O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" - Evil

4 pages in length. Evil - a self-perpetuating entity of myriad literary tales - presents itself as a force that challenges the ve...

Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" And O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" - Evil

some do not stop to consider the consequences of their actions. Brown is especially aware of this fact as he becomes "a stern, a ...

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...

'Grim Fairy Tales and Gory Stories' by Aviva Layton

to see if they had a certain picture book, the librarian informed her that the book was in their collection, but was not suitable ...

How Children Develop a Sense of Morality

that rules, in and of themselves, are not sacred or absolute (Crain, 2009). For example, if a child hears a scenario in which one ...

Questions On Medical Ethics

further examined by comparing the moral reasoning with the stages laid down by Piaget, with more complex and mature reasoning only...

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...

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 Importance of Religious Stories

investigation of the dhamma, energy, rapture or happiness, calm, concentration, and equanimity" (Thera, 2009). The story entitle...

Chaucer/Merchant's & Franklin's Tales

French fabliaux, which provide the source material on which many of the tales are based. Essentially, Chaucer use of gardens sugge...

Dark But Not Always Gothic Writings of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne

a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...

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 ...