Fall 2013 Paper Number 1: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales-The Wife of Bath The Wife of Bath is a character that Chaucer presents as an attractive female in its prologue. She is a headstrong and very self-confident woman of her time who thinks highly of herself. Chaucer’s descriptions of her facial and bodily features are sexually suggestive. In the Prologue‚ Chaucer’s narrative involves her physical appearance describing her clothes‚ legs‚ feet‚ hips‚ and her gap-tooth
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there are two different attitudes towards love; I have selected four poems that consider this issue and show the poets true thoughts on love. Two of my texts‚ ‘Leaving Prince Charming Behind‚’ written by Karlo Mila and ‘Advice to a discarded Lover‚’ written by Fleur Adcock‚ both look at the theme of love and past relationships in a negative and quite a depressing manner. Whereas‚ the other two texts deal with both the poets sweet‚ happy and more realistic attitude towards the power of true love. ‘To the
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February 1st 2012 True Love and its Obstacles Love is one of the most important things to the survival of the human race‚ because it allows humans to work together and connect with each other. To live life without love is not living a fulfilled life. Finding true love may seem like the difficult part of a relationship with another human being‚ but the obstacle that hinders the relationship coming together is the most difficult part. My essay will explore the theme “true love” and the obstacles that
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reach out to the constituents of Carson‚ located approximately 14 miles away from the Los Angeles International Airport‚ to educate them on the effects of cigarette smoking on their lives‚ their love ones lives‚ and the community as a whole. Cigarette smoking in our community is a huge problem. The city of Carson is approximately 18.724 square miles‚ densely populated‚ and is home to three large oil refineries and a wastewater treatment plant. In addition to the toxins released from industry
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A Comparative Analysis of Characters: Two Women Rediscovering Love Most people don’t realize how similar they are to others. Specifically‚ two people in different short stories are going to be oblivious to one another. The character Delia‚ from author Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat” is remarkably like George Saunders’ character Callie in his short story “Puppy.” Though Saunders’ conjured up Callie more than seventy-five years after Hurston thought of Delia‚ the popular author incorporated some of
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song. Even the first line is almost verbatim‚ I just changed ‘frightful’ to ‘raining’. I’m not much of a poet but I never really knew how to start a story. I definitely wasn’t going to start with “Once upon a time…” because this isn’t an old fairytale love story. This is better‚ this is real-life shit. This is the story of Innaz and that was the first time I ever noticed her. I entered what was supposed to be a small class of illiterates. Illiterate in Arabic‚ that is. It started with me and a
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The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu deals heavily with Japanese religions and its influence on Japanese society. Themes of jealousy‚ responsibility and guilt are also mixed in with the religious themes. Religions and ideals clash through the course of the novel. Shikibu focused on the two religions of Buddhism and Shinto. Buddhism represents the modern day religion in the novel and Shinto is viewed as the old religion. As the novel progress the readers start to see the fusion of the two religions
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Another aspect to consider is the greed of the pardoner. The pardoner seeks a commission from his audience for his tales. He himself is also one that is overtaken by money. Does he sincerely care about the condition of one’s soul or is he just out for a quick buck? On page 9‚ the pardoner comments that his "holy pardon cures and will suffice/ So that it bring me gold‚ or silver brings/ Or else‚ I care not- brooches‚ spoons‚ or rings." Personally‚ I believe that the pardoner is willing to tell just
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Conventions of Courtly Love Within The Miller’s Tale and Morte Darthur While both “Morte Darthur” and “The Miller’s Tale” display some characteristics of a satirical approach in which human vices are attacked in a whimsical manner through irony‚ comedy‚ and folly‚ they are actually quite different in their literary genre and style. “Morte Darthur”‚ an adventurous tale with an imaginary setting that perfectly idealizes the chivalrous knight-hero and his noble deeds done for the love of his lady‚ is a
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The Canterbury Tales Thomas Becket – Thomas Becket was the archbishop and Canterbury in the 1100s. It was his duty and right to coronate the new King of England. When three other bishops tried to coronate a new king of England‚ Becket refused to sign the appropriate paperwork and the other three coroneted the new king‚ Henry‚ without him. When the King found out that Becket had done this‚ he said something that could be loosely interpreted as “Oh‚ that’s annoying” so the King’s guards‚ hearing
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