and his/her tale. What was the underlying motive for 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
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question‚ I want to say that The Dark Knight Rises is not a bad movie. It just pales in comparison to its predecessor‚ The Dark Knight. Also‚ spoilers! I will be analyzing how Christopher Nolan‚ the director‚ tried to incorporate the themes of truth versus lies and social inequalities‚ and ultimately fell short. To understand one of the major themes in The Dark Knight Rises‚ one has to first understand a critical plot driver in The Dark Knight.. The Dark Knight ends with a noble lie: Batman takes
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behavior that knights are esteemed to have. Knights are counted upon not only to speak of accepting the conduct of chivalry once dubbed‚ but also to carry out what they were taught through their actions (Kaeuper 1). A prime example of literature broadcasting chivalry is in Geoffrey Chaucer’s‚ The Canterbury Tales; specifically the Knight’s Tale. The Knight’s Tale fits someone with his career because the genre is a chivalric romance. The story includes beliefs looked for in a knight including
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The Knights Templar were a monastic military order formed at the end of the First Crusade with the mandate of protecting Christian pilgrims on route to the Holy Land. Never before had a group of secular knights banded together and taken the monastic vows. In this sense they were the first of the Warrior Monks. The Templars fought along side King Richard I (Richard The Lion Hearted) and other Crusaders in the battles for the Holy Lands. From humble beginnings of poverty when the order relied on
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the world because it allows us to express ourselves. One culture from the late 1000s is the knights. The knights culture originated in the Middle Ages around Europe and Middle Asia. The culture of the knights is best studied by looking closer at the history of the knights‚ daily schedule of a knight‚ and the culture of knights today. The knights started growing around the 1050-1006. “By the 1066‚ knights were already a familiar sight in Normandy and other parts of France. At a time when kings were
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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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Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns questions what is right and what is wrong. It makes you wonder if the government is the bad guy‚ or if it is the criminals‚ or maybe even Batman himself. Miller uses duality and creates closure to show that there is always another side of the coin and all you have to do is flip it to see it. He also uses art to build context and tension by starting with art that is abstract. The art slowly changes to brighter colors and less abstract art as the tension
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What is a Lady Knight? She is strong‚ patient‚ smart‚ kind‚ spirited‚ and humble‚ yet she knows that she has just as much potential to succeed as anyone. She is helpful‚ genuine‚ considerate‚ respectful‚ motivated‚ and dedicated to whatever she pursues. She knows when and how to get her point across‚ but she does so with grace. She is a true lady. As a Lady Knight‚ I have learned to adapt all these qualities to ameliorate myself‚ on and off the court. I have learned that volleyball‚ like any sport
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also developed self-seriousness and doubt‚ adding a welcome layer to the comic-book enterprise. The Dark Knight of four years ago had a villain‚ the Joker (Heath Ledger)‚ whose evilness had no affiliations and whose incendiary insanity burnt everything in its way. That included Batman (Bale)‚ Police Commissioner Gordon (Oldman) and a District Attorney‚ Harvey Dent‚ who was almost the ’White Knight’ everyone wanted till the burden proved too much. It hinted at the pointlessness of terror and the dilemmas
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Fall 2013 Paper Number 1: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales-The Wife of Bath The Wife of Bath is a character that Chaucer presents as an attractive female in its prologue. She is a headstrong and very self-confident woman of her time who thinks highly of herself. Chaucer’s descriptions of her facial and bodily features are sexually suggestive. In the Prologue‚ Chaucer’s narrative involves her physical appearance describing her clothes‚ legs‚ feet‚ hips‚ and her gap-tooth
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