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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...

Comparing Sherazade and Aziyade

From what many can piece together, Aziyade did really exist. She was a Circassian slave owned by an old Turkish nobleman. She was ...

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, T.S. Eliot's 'The Mill on the Floss' and Narrative Perspective

had a daughter who loved him"; however, Maggie received no such indications either from her father" or from Tom--the two idols of ...

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...

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...

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...

A Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Guttierez by J. Breslin

the contractors were building shoddy buildings, and nobody was getting reported for any of it. Of course Guttierez had no knowled...

Frank Norris's McTeague

his mother dies he was over six feet tall and with his blond hair was an imposing figure, he used the money to set up his own busi...

Thematic Conflict in John Nichols' The Milagro Beanfield War

with immediate commercial success, however, it was later transferred to screen with a film adaptation, indicating the real value t...

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...

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...

A Canterbury Pilgrim's Personal Tale

Pegasus. Every morning he woke and sharpened his blades while everyone else was at breakfast. When we finished eating he would ...

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...

Growing Up in Frances H. Burnett's The Secret Garden and L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

with the color of Oz, which is lush and green. In Oz, Dorothy has many adventures, but keeps working to find a way to get back ho...

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, ...

Women as Objects

the reader is actually living the life of Offred, seeing and making the same assumptions she is making. This style of approach to...

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...

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...

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...

'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 ...

John Barth's Use of Allegory in 'Giles Goat Boy'

There is, as is the case with any novel, a clear power of theme behind this comical tale of ones journey as a goat. Many have argu...

American Immigration Theories

(Handlin 75). This was also the reason, although Handlin doesnt state it as such, that immigrants tended to feel more comfortable ...

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...

Themes of Good and Evil in Edgar Allan Poe

- Chapter 4 - The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Fiction). Poe seemed to regard society and the Industrial Revolution in particular ...

Female Protagonists in Ernest Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants and Anton Chekhov's The Darling

It is this "darling," who, according to Chekhov, "could not exist without loving" (Chekhov, 2002). She falls in love with Kukin, w...

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale and the 7 Deadly Sins

the Pardoner, himself a representative of the Church. The Seven Deadly Sins are known as pride (vanity), envy, gluttony, lu...