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    In this romance‚ there is a battle between reason and love. Both try to thwart the paths of the other. When love is taking control‚ there is always a sense of reason that prevents Lancelot from doing what he wants‚ and when reason has the better of him‚ love makes him go in a different direction. Reason is the logical explanation behind each action taken or decision made by Lancelot. Love is the attraction that Lancelot feels for Gweneviere and it has a way of pushing aside reason‚ when he tries

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    love A character that refuses to dominate anyone and offers himself to any person from his humble nature is a faithful servant of the world and all who belongs to it. I don’t think I have to explain what the historical context was in 1940‚ but is the filming year of The Great Dictator‚ one of the masterpieces of Charles Chaplin. We have seen‚ throughout history‚ that in difficult and tragic times‚ great personalities rise and bring out the best of themselves in order to give a lesson to the most

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    Chivalry: The Ideal Knight

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    was a time of knight brotherhood. All knights had a job‚ to be the best knight there ever was. Knights attempted to conquered this feat by demonstrating acts of bravery‚ dignity‚ and overall portraying traits of a perfect man. All knights showed acts of Chivalry towards one another and everyone that crossed their paths. A perfect knight was hard to come by‚ but some reached this feat. To be a perfect knight‚ the knights had to follow a “ Knight’s Code”. During this time period knights were considered

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    Canterbury Tales

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    The Good and Bad in the Canterbury Tales In Geoffrey Chaucer’s poem‚ Canterbury Tale‚ life in fourteenth-century England is realistically and satirically exposed. Through the Knight‚ Parson‚ and Summoner‚ Chaucer portrays the good and bad people in fourteenth-century England. The Knight represents the chivalry during this time‚ whereas the Parson represents the God-fearing‚ respectable people. Although there were many good people in England‚ Chaucer also shows many bad ones such as the Summoner

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    The Knight in Rusty Armor

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    his emotions for so long‚ he had forgotten what it meant to express them. “We’re all stuck in armor of a kind. Yours is merely easier to find.” (The Knight in Rusty Armor‚ 9) The Knight’s armor also represents that he was afraid to be alone and he never really listened to anyone else. He never opened up. In some ways‚ I’m a lot like the Knight. I’m afraid to open up to people‚ and I need to feel the affirmation of others. I don’t let people know how I’m really feeling because it’s easier to

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    Knight in Shining Armor

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    KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR I hate it so much when I think of him And there’s no way for me to be with him I want him like crazy and the feeling eats me alive Things seem to rush in a creative pace Everything so ideal I don’t care anymore who will be against us As long as he’s with me And because of that I have realized‚ I am deeply in love No holds barred. He was never really in my vocabulary ‘Til one day‚ he became the only word I know He would run through my mind As if there’s no

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    Evaluation the Dark Knight

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    Evaluation of The Dark Knight The Dark Knight is one of the greatest movies of our time. Laremy Legel called Christopher Nolan’s‚ The Dark Knight‚ a masterwork (Dillon Michell‚ "The Dark Knight"). The Dark Knight won plenty of awards: Best Achievement in Sound Editing‚ Cinematography‚ Film Editing in Oscar; Movie of the Year in AFI Award; Top Box Office Film in ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards‚ and so on. The Dark Knight is a film that was so popular and all around loved that it merits evaluation

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    Canterbury Tales

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    Though the characters in the Canterbury Tales are described vividly and often comically‚ it is not necessarily true that these characters are therefore stereotypes of The Middle ages. The intricate visual descriptions and the tales the characters tell help to direct the reader in finding a more accurate and realistic picture of the pilgrims‚ bringing into question the theory that Chaucer was just collating stereotypes from his time. The fact that there is one representative for each of the

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    The Tale of Genji and the Tales of Ise‚ both being of the monogatari literature‚ share similarities in their theme of romantic courtship‚ presence of male protagonists famed for their romantic exploits and the presentation of courtly ‘miyabi’ aesthetics. Differences between the two‚ however‚ lie in the nature of their storytelling – while both texts incorporate poetic verses‚ the Tale of Genji is largely written in prose while the Tales of Ise is known as an ‘uta monogatari’ with waka poems being

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    The Knight's Tale Essay

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    The Knight’s Tale is a romantic poem that was adapted from Boccaccio’s Teseida‚ and the plot concerns the rivalry of cousins Arcite and Palemon who vie for the love of Emilye‚ sister to Theseus’s wife‚ Hipolyta. The cousins battled each other for the right to marry Emilye‚ and while Arcite won the battle‚ there was an earthquake which killed him. Palemon eventually marries Emilye several years after Arcite was killed. While this plot is the main feature of the poem‚ but does not sustain close scrutiny

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