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    in the text whom you found interesting. Explain how the director used oral/or visual features to make the character or individual interesting to you. An interesting character or individual in the film A Knights Tale (2001) directed by Brian Helgeland is (Sir) William Thatcher. William is interesting because he is not a typical peasant‚ he has much more drive and ambition than normal peasants. Helgeland uses oral and visual features to support the points that

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    experience like this‚ but we probably still loved that person. You just let your pride and selfishness get in the way of you and the relationship you had with that person. Well you’re not alone and there is a story that deals with this. In “The Knight Tales” the same situation happened and this story kind of ends with a happy ending. This story has something we can learn from it and I’m about to guide you through it. It seems the theme is how the bond between friends and family can be changed instantly

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    Name: _______________________ Mods:_______ from The Pardoner’s Tale Reading Check 1.  How does the Pardoner describe his own character and morals in the Prologue to his tale? 2.  According to “The Pardoner’s Tale‚” why are the three young rioters looking for Death? 3.  Where does the old man tell the rioters to look for Death? How do they treat him? 4.  Describe the rioters’ plan for the gold and how it proves fatal to all three of them. Thinking

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    The Knights in the story “ The Wife of Bath’s Tale” written by Chaucer Geoffrey and the movie “A Knight’s Tale”directed by Brian Helgeland has many similarities and differences. Both Knights were great jousts‚ but have committed a crime somehow. Both knights also ended up falling in love‚ and also ended up getting married. Both men were very brave but had to overcome challenges to have their life saved. The character William Thatcher in the story committed a serious crime. Thatcher comes

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    A Knights Tale is a useful text in conveying medieval life and society. It displays many aspects of medieval life and society like jousting‚ the feudal system and living conditions in the middle ages. A Knights Tale also demonstrates a connection between Chaucer’s pilgrims and the modern audience. A Knights Tale display’s many different aspects of medieval life and society. It shows the Feudal system with the different people shown from Royalty (the prince)‚ Noblemen (Adamar)‚ lower classes such

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    someone else. In the story of The Wife’s Bath’s Tale the knight raped the young lady. in the text it says “By very force he took her maidenhead” (Chaucer 34). This was an awful act that the knight made. The knight did not care that he harmed or hurt the girl. At this time in the knight’s life the knight did not care for women. He made a rough time for someone else. The king wanted to take his head. The queen instead had a different plan for the knight she told him “ Yet you shall live if you can answer

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    parallels between Geoffrey Chaucer’s "The Knights Tale" and "The Miller’s Tale". Some of these parallels show likenesses and some of them show differences in the two stories. The plots of the stories are very similar. However‚ the characters’ descriptions‚ motives‚ and actions are extremely different. By writing the two stories in this way‚ Chaucer ties them both together. First of all‚ the plot of "The Knight’s Tale" and the plot of "The Miller’s Tale" are very alike. Both are about two men

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    Irony is the general name given to literary techniques that involve surprising‚ interesting‚ or amusing contradictions. Two stories from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales that serve as excellent demonstrations 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 lesson. In "The Pardoner’s Tale‚ the Pardoner uses his story to speak out against many social problems‚ all of which he is guilty of. He preaches about

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    this is by introducing irony. Irony is an outcome of events that is contrary to what was expected. Many authors may use three different types of irony to get their point across. These types of irony are verbal‚ dramatic‚ or situational. They may apply irony to turn a story around and to give it a twist. One author who utilizes this technique is Geoffrey Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales. In fact‚ Chaucer enhances irony in his story “The Miller’s Tale.” He incorporates irony to entertain his readers

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    Tell-Tale Heart‚” the author‚ Edgar Allen Poe‚ uses irony to achieve and sustain suspense and horror for his readers. One example of irony(dramatic) is when the narrator repeatedly claims to be sane‚ but we become more and more certain that he is insane. “If you still think me mad‚ you will no longer when I describe to you the wise precautions I took for the concealment of the body...First of all‚ I dismembered the corpse. I cut off the head and the arms and the legs”(¶12). It is dramatic irony since

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