Alison’s Analysis In “The Millers Tale” Alison is the main character. She is only eighteen years old and marries a much older man named John who is a carpenter. Alison is a free spirited and beautiful young lady but she lacks morals. For example she cheats on her husband which proves my point. Her husband was very protective over her. She was young and beautiful and he didn’t want to lose her. He tried to keep her on a short leash. “This carpenter hadde wedded newe a wif which that he loved more
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Cunegonde‚ from their first kiss he was hooked‚ every adventure throughout his entire‚ overarching journey was for her. He committed multiple murders and left the paradise-on-earth El Dorado all for Cunegonde. Every time he would get to her‚ fate would find a way to distance Candide from his one “true love” and that only pushed Candide further in his mission to marry Cunegonde so that “[they] may die of joy together.” Finally‚ finally reunited to his
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January The Merchant’s Tale He is a wealthy‚ elderly knight and marries May. Poor old january longs for a young wife to fulfill God’s wish that man and woman marry‚ and to produce an heir to inherit his estates. After covering with his friends‚ January decides to marry a young girl named May. January is very contempt with their marriage even after his old age warrants him to become blind. He doesn’t let May out of his reach and they continue to live (as he thought) a faithful life. One day
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Analysis of the Protagonist “The Storm” Kate Chopin is a well known short story author from the late 1800’s who often included sexually repressed women as the protagonist in her works. One story she wrote‚ “The Storm”‚ was never submitted for publication until after her death due to the sexual nature of not only the story‚ but the protagonist as well. Calixta‚ the sexually repressed women in the short story “The Storm”‚ is a good wife and mother‚ but longs for more pleasure in her life. In
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Hadley is a young widow (just as Oates recently lost her husband)‚ and she’s attracted—for mysterious reasons that relate to her childhood—to Anton‚ a young post-doc who works at the local Co-op. He has “dropped by”‚ and she’s not too upset to see him—it seems she might be ready to finally emerge after a long period of mourning—but she is slightly repulsed by Anton. The man is forceful‚ though‚ and she doesn’t have the strength to ask him to leave‚ although she does lie to him feebly. It turns out that
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story and finally let her secret out. Melinda was a defenseless teenager. One of her weaknesses was her vulnerability. She said‚ “He kissed me‚ man kiss‚ hard sweet and deep. Nearly knocked me off my feet‚ that kiss” (135). She said this right before she was raped. This quote showed her weakness to Andy‚ the rapist. Being tricked by that kiss showed how delicate she could be. Melinda was constantly putting herself in pain. Another weakness was that she was distressed. She said‚ “I can’t
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Literature II Research Paper & Journal Table of Context a. Research Paper ………………………………………………………………………………. 2 b. Poems 1. Sir Patrick Spens ………………………………………………………………………… 6 2. Amazing Grace ………………………………………………………………………..… 9 3. Shakespeare Sonnet 55 ………………………………………………………………… 11 4. The Relic ……………………………………………………………………………..… 12 5. The Flea ………………………………………………………………………………... 14 6. The Anniverserie ……………………………………………………………………….. 16 7. The Canonization ………………………………………………………………………. 18 8. Batter
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1. In her commentary “Reading Blind‚” Margaret Atwood gives her opinions on factors that make a short story good. She writes that a good story has to have a voice that moves not only across pages but also through time. Most people are first introduced to stories at a young age by the “scandalous gossips” and “family secrets” that children overhear their mothers discussing in the kitchen‚ or the oral tales with “talking donkeys” and “definite endings” that their grandmother recites to them. All these
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“Digging” is the first poem of Seamus Heaney’s debut collection of poetry‚ Death of a Naturalist. It was a breakthrough for him. In his own essay “Feeling into Words‚” which was originally given as a lecture at the Royal Society of Literature in 1974‚ he said‚ “I wrote it in the summer of 1964‚ almost two years after I had begun to ‘dabble in verses.’ This was the first place where I felt I had done more than make an arrangement of words: I felt that I had let down a shaft into real life” (Heaney
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Ads use a variety of techniques to attract readers’ attention and convince them that the product advertised is the best they can get. This advertisement of Camel cigarettes was feature in Glamour Magazine. It features a photograph of a Caucasian woman that seems to be in her mid-twenties. This woman is beautiful and appears to have flawless skin. She is holding a lit cigarette in her hand and is blowing out cigarette smoke from her mouth. This image suggests that smoking Camel Cigarettes will make
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