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    not teach finder-keepers-losers-weepers‚ but thieves can be stolen from as well; as it is said‚ “Who evil does should not expect some good” (Chaucer 4320) One of the names in the stories are the same‚ such as John‚ whom in the Reeve’s Tale was one of the scholars along with Alan whom copulate with the wife and daughter of the miller‚ Simkin‚ respectively (Chaucer 4195 – 98; 4228 – 33). While in the Miller’s Tale‚ John is the rich‚ old carpenter that has an eighteen-year old wife‚ Alisoun‚ whom he is

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    In Chaucers section of the Canterbury Tales‚ The Pardoners Tale various literary elements occur. He displays personification‚ and makes death a character‚ giving him life. He includes a moral to his tale which is greed is the root of all evil(Bible) and gives the story meaning. Chaucers plot is another key part to the story‚ because it proved greed can bring evil. Chaucer wrote the Pardoners Tale with the theme greed is the root of all evil he was able to show this by using various literary elementsThe

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    Church has been an ongoing issue dating father back than anyone can remember. During the medieval times‚ the Catholic Church had become widely notorious for hypocrisy‚ abuse of clerical power and the compromise of morality throughout. Geoffrey Chaucer made a fine and somewhat darkly comical example of this through The Monk‚ from the Canterbury Tales. The Monk is enlisting in a pilgrimage maybe for his love of riding‚ or to further line his pockets while pardoning people for their sins. According

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    Chaucer had made his female pilgrimage made woman out to be seen with an evil inner core. He almost made women seem like theifs‚ as he talked about all they would take from men. They were shown in many circumstances to be vain‚ often like caricatures and not portrayed as real humans‚ selfish‚ and very untrustworthy. Chaucer had very opinionated views of the manners and behaviors of women and expressed it in a matter that was quite strong in The Canterbury Tales. In his tales‚ he showed specific version

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    the middle ages and is mentioned in many writers’ works. The Inferno written by Dante Alighieri is one of the most recognized written works of the middle ages. He writes of a mans journey through the levels of hell to rediscover his faith in God and the purpose of divine justice. Although this book is just a small part of Dante’s complete epic poem it displays societies views on religion. In one of the first cantos Dante and his guide‚ Virgil‚ encounter sinners outside the gates of Hell. Bees and wasps

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    ruler was supreme. This situation has a profound effect on the events of the story. Dantes’ enemies used the rivalry between the two parties in order to convince the Royalists that Edmond is a Bonapartist‚ therefore it is the basis for his arrest and inevitable captivity in the Chateau D’If.. Basic Plot: The Count of Monte Cristo is a story about a sailor‚ Edmond Dantes‚ who was betrayed during the prime of his life and career by the jealousy of his friends

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    allegoric literary tactics‚ which in turn became a genre that was significantly unique to the Medieval period. Dream visions were favored by Medieval poets‚ such as French poet Guillaume de Lorris‚ who became influential on other poets‚ Geoffrey Chaucer and Boethius. Through the examination of three specific Medieval works‚ it extremely apparent that all dream visions contain particular common features to attain their end goal in representing the limitations of dream visions. Although this concept

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    representing all classes of society. The journey itself is rather lengthy‚ especially when one considers that transportation during medieval times consisted of walking‚ riding a horse or other four legged pack creature‚ or riding in a cart of some kind. Chaucer begins his work with a Prologue‚ during which time the reader is briefly introduced to each one of the pilgrims making the journey. When the host suggests telling stories to pass the time while traveling‚ it becomes clear that “each tale reflects

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    For the straightforward pathway had been lost.” (Canto I). These opening words of the Italian Dante Alighieri’s Inferno set a scene of a man‚ Dante‚ lost in his own God-given life path. From here on‚ Dante embarks on a journey of staggering significance: he is granted a tour of Hell. Dante records this expedition in the Inferno‚ but unfortunately‚ the piece of literature is not entirely factual. Dante creates this story to show his personal ideas of Hell. However‚ he does not set aside his own biased

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    Gustave Doré is a prime example of the type of images Dante tried to depict while writing “Dante’s inferno.” Dante wanted the emotion of the story to be dark and not at all bright or cheerful. When I view William Blake’s drawings I don’t feel frightened‚ petrified or even scared. He constructed his pictures in a bright cheerful and that takes away the feeling that Dante tried to create. I feel if William Blake didn’t fill his pictures with color and darkened up his sky‚ the pictures would have the

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