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    Let’s talk ab!t Canterbury... Vatel Nîmes School - Year 2011 We are going to present the City of Canterbury district. I. Canterbury overview 1) Geography Welcome to the fabulous district of Canterbury‚ including Herne Bay and Whitstable coastal resorts‚ with their beautiful beach fronts and the surrounding Countryside. Canterbury has the perfect blend of city‚ coast and countryside‚ ensuring that however varied your interests are you will be spoilt for choice. We could actually

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    Brooke Schweitzer Dr. O’Callaghan Eng 402 April 11‚ 2010 Springtime in The Canterbury Tales _See how the lilies of the field grow. …Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.-Matthew 6:28-29_ Springtime and beauty is inevitably linked in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Chaucer uses the images of springtime from the very beginning of the prologue to promote the idea of renewal and overall joyfulness. Not only is it used to establish tone or

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    10/2/12 The Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales‚ written by Geoffry Chaucer‚ is known as a Frame tale. A Frame tale is a story that leads up to another story. The Canterbury Tales‚ to me‚ was a very interesting story. A couple of the characters‚ the Knight and the Plowman‚ greatly caught my eye. The Canterbury Tales is about a pilgrimage made to a holy place during the 1300’s for religious reasons. Twenty-nine pilgrims travel to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas a Becket. As

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    SHORT PLOT SUMMARY (Synopsis)  The Canterbury Tales consists of the stories related by the 29 pilgrims on their way to Saint Thomas Becket’s shrine in Canterbury. Harry Bailey‚ the Host‚ had proposed a scheme in the General Prologue whereby each pilgrim was to narrate two tales on the way to Canterbury and two more while returning. In the course of the journey the Canon and his Yeoman join the pilgrims. However The Canterbury Tales are incomplete. There should have been a hundred and twenty tales

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    In The Canterbury Tales‚ the narrator‚ Geoffrey Chaucer‚ warns of unmannerly conduct and begs for forgiving and non-judgmental readers in any instance of offense throughout the stories. Chaucer makes it clear that the stories told were not of his own views or words and were strictly re-written for the purpose of the book. The warning was necessary because the book itself contains many controversial events that may seem wretched to the reader. In the Miller’s tale‚ the narrator once again warns

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    Katie Paschal After reading the Canterbury Tales and the General Prologue‚ I learned a lot about all of the Pilgrims. The pilgrim that I found the most interesting was the Pardoner‚ which is why I chose to use him for my project. The Pardoner worked for the Church and was despised by many churchgoers. In return for making donations to charitable enterprises‚ the Pardoner was licensed by the Pope to sell papal indulgences. People would give money in exchange for pardons and the Pardoner would

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    the storyteller telling his/her tale? Chaucer’s masterpiece‚ The Canterbury Tales‚ is the most famous and critically acclaimed work of Geoffrey Chaucer‚ a late-fourteenth-century English poet. Little is known about Chaucer’s personal life‚ and even less about his education‚ but a number of existing records document his professional life. Chaucer was born in London in the early 1340s‚ the only son in his family. The Canterbury Tales is written in Middle English‚ which bears a close visual resemblance

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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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    The Canterbury Tales Big Brother Story When applying the show Big Brother with the story The Canterbury Tales choosing the right characters to intermingle in a household is very difficult. The eight characters I have chosen to live in a household together are The Knight‚ The Friar‚ The Squire‚ The Nun‚ The Cook‚ The Wife of Bath‚ The Manciple‚ and The Summoner. I believe that the chosen characters will make a very interesting and dramatic show. The first character I have chosen is The Knight

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    The Canterbury Tales: Review Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is considered as one of the major beginning marks in English Literature. The Canterbury Tales‚ written in 14th century is a collection of short stories mainly in verse form. The stories in The Canterbury Tales are told by a group of 24 pilgrims on pilgrimage from Southwark to Canterbury to visit the shrine of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. A Prologue to The Canterbury Tales introduces the major characters of the

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