Paper #2 Throughout time sitcoms have used satire‚ irony and parody to entertain and get laughs out of its audience. Almost everyone likes certain sitcoms for different reasons‚ but mostly because they enjoy a good laugh. I want to talk about sitcoms and what is hiding behind the satire‚ irony and parodies. Sitcoms are meant to help its audience through social anxieties without fully coming out and saying what it is doing. The word sitcom is actually two words put together which was once called
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Nick Migliaccio Migliaccio 1 Mr. Bryner English III December 10th‚ 2007 Geoffrey Chaucer‚ a magnificent and extremely talented author‚ wrote a set of short stories called The Canterbury Tales. The tales are contained in what is called a “frame tale”‚ which is the main tale that every other one revolves around. These tales are told by a collection of pilgrims on an adventure from Southwark to Canterbury
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Geoffrey Chaucer (/ˈtʃɔːsər/; c. 1343 – 25 October 1400)‚ known as the Father of English literature‚ is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to be buried in Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey. While he achieved fame during his lifetime as an author‚ philosopher‚ alchemist and astronomer‚ composing a scientific treatise on the astrolabe for his ten year-old son Lewis‚ Chaucer also maintained an active career in the civil service as a bureaucrat‚ courtier
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N.S. Thompson‚ Chaucer‚ Boccaccio‚ and the Debate of Love: A Comparative Study of The Decameron and The Canterbury Tales. Oxford: Clarendon‚ 1996; 354pp.; Nigel Thompson’s book resists alignment with current concerns in late-medieval studies: he has little or nothing to say about manuscripts and their dissemination; about the audiences‚ reception‚ and imitation of the works he treats; about gender and its representation; about contemporary social and political developments and how these works
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with locks as curly as if the had been pressed" (chaucer 82 & 83). He does not live to serve his king or his country‚ he lives for himself and the ladies. He is always more worried about his appearance than fighting on the battle field although he does respect his father he is not at all a good squire. The knight‚ our model‚ however "to ride abroad had followed chivalry‚ truth‚ honor‚ generousness and courtesy‚" is the example that Chaucer set of what the military class should be.
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Chaucer’s Irony Geoffrey Chaucer uses irony as a way to convey his ideas in a more effective manner. Two stories from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales that demonstrate this use of irony are "The Pardoners Tale" and "The Nun’s Priest’s Tale." Although these two stories are very different‚ they both use irony to teach a similar lesson. The Pardoner is a hypocrite. He preaches about drunkenness‚ while he tells his story intoxicated. He talks about blasphemy and greed‚ and he attempts to sell fake religious
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Mary Preavy The Canterbury Tales Essay Mrs. Vance 29 November‚ 2011 The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer was the greatest English poet of his time period. Geoffrey Chaucer was the greatest English poet of his time period because he was extremely intelligent and he had a wide knowledge of the people around him. I chose Geoffrey Chaucer’s work because when I read The Canterbury Tales it automatically caught my attention. I feel that he did a great job depicting the types of people that lived
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In “The Wife of Bath’s Tale‚” Chaucer uses the old woman’s unexpected contrasts between good poverty and bad wealth to show that poverty is actually better than being wealthy. The old woman describes “The poor can dance and sing in the relief / Of having nothing that will tempt a thief/ Though it can be hateful‚ poverty is good‚ / A great incentive to a livelihood” (270). Although her life is near the bottom of the social hierarchy‚ “dance and sing” suggests hope‚ happiness‚ and celebration. Adding
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Chaucer’s “The Miller’s Tale”‚ we as the readers are introduced to the four main characters present throughout the entirety of the poem. These characters include: John the carpenter‚ Nicholas the student‚ John’s wife Alison‚ and the parish clerk Absalom. Chaucer sets up “The Miller’s Tale” by first introducing his characters and briefly describing their personalities and what role they played in the story. One may come to realize‚ after completing the poem‚ that these brief descriptions acted as a way to
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through their writing. Geoffrey Chaucer and Jane Austen both use stereotypes of their times to reflect the society of that era. Chaucer lived during a time when the clergy was corrupt and stole from the hardworking‚ honest‚ peasant farmers (known as the Late Middle Ages*). In contrast‚ during the Hanoverian period during which Austen lived‚ society was based on the material possessions of an individual (or their future inheritance)‚ family connections‚ and marriage. Chaucer outlines his time period through
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