The Miller’s tale in the Canterbury Tales is a tale told by the miller on their quest to Canterbury. His tale was a Fabliau which contains all the main aspects of a fabliau which is sex‚ violence‚ and “justice”. A fabliau in a story about an extended joke or trick on a specific character in a story. It is normally told by a person of lower class and the Miller is one of the lower class pilgrims on the trip. The story is about two characters‚ Nicholas and Alison‚ who are fooling around behind
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monk‚ he may imagine someone who studies‚ prays‚ and performs manual labor. The Monk‚ one of the thirty pilgrims travelling on a pilgrimage to Canterbury in The Canterbury Tales‚ is nothing like the usual monk many people imagine. He is rebellious‚ ignores rules‚ and lives and controls his own life. Chaucer‚ the narrator and author of The Canterbury Tales‚ shows these characteristics in the way the Monk looks‚ the things he says and does‚ and in the things the host‚ a character in "The Monk’s Prologue
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Chaucer’s Critique of Medieval Society As The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer progresses‚ the tales often critique one’s sexual past while judging how they act through the tales‚ along with their gender. As karma and greed also have an extremely strong presence in the “Reeve’s and Pardoner’s tales” they both value money over the people that are important in their lives. The Wife of Bath critiques every aspect of male superiority as she is an extremely enthusiastic "feminist"‚ that defends her
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Analytic Commentary 2 Drawing and Representation This commentary will focus on a YouTube video (Eastwestman‚ 2010) and using it to demonstrate how mark-making/drawing is important for creative development in early childhood. Also that drawing for young children is a form of representation‚ Dyson (1993) claims that it is symbols which are used to express and communicate with others (Anning and Ring‚ 2004) The child in the Video (I will refer to him Sammy) is exploring drawing materials including
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“Siddhartha” by Herman Hesse is neatly categorized under the Bildungsroman genre. Bildungsroman is a novel dealing with one person’s formative years or spiritual education. Throughout the whole novel Siddhartha‚ the main character‚ is confronted by many setbacks not only physically and emotionally but also spiritually. Siddhartha’s father was a Brahman and thus Siddhartha learnt the traditions through his own father. However‚ Siddhartha felt that he was missing something and this started his journey
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Isolation in Frankenstein This passage is taken from page 119 of chapter 19 in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Closing in on the ending of the novel‚ this passage explores the self-reflecting state of Frankenstein’s mind when in isolation on the Islands of Orkney. Fear arises as a critical emotion that strikes him during his time spent on his creation. After visiting Edinburgh and a number of other cities‚ Frankenstein leaves his friend Henry Clerval and settles in a remote part of the Scottish
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Entry 1: Preface – Page 50 The preface of Unbroken takes place in the future‚ after Louie Zamperini has abandoned running‚ enlisted in the army‚ and crashed into the ocean with a plane full of American soldiers. In this two-page glimpse at the outcome of the events in Louie’s life‚ the most significant aspect is the resilience with which Louie carries out his actions on the raft. Although Louie’s crewmates have given up on life and accepted the defeat of being killed by a Japanese war plane‚ Louie
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TWO characters in The Miller’s Tale analyse how Chaucer both asserts and challenges the values and attitudes of his 14th Century context. “The Miller’s Tale”‚ the second poem of “The Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer questions against the values and beliefs of the fourteenth century. The first poem of “The Canterbury Tale” was the “Knight’s Tale” a honourable and virtuous tale. Breaking the social status of the narrator‚ from the Knights tale to a juxtaposed tale told by a drunken Miller sets
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includes a great variety of comic tales‚ in both prose and verse‚ and in a variety of more or less distinct genres. For students of Chaucer‚ the most important comic genre is the fabliau (fabliau is the singular‚ fabliaux the plural). Chaucer’s Miller’s tale‚ Reeve’s Tale‚ Shipman’s Tale‚ Summoner’s tale‚ and the fragmentary Cook’s Tale are all fabliaux‚ and other tales -- such as the Merchant’s Tale -- show traces of the genre: "A fabliau is a brief comic tale in verse‚ usually scurrilous and often
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‘Othello’ Act 1 Commentary In the first act of Othello‚ the antagonist of the play‚ Iago‚ is introduced rather than Othello himself. Iago and Roderigo are known to the audience in the beginning while Othello’s name is never mentioned in the first scene but is referred to as ‘he’ ‘him’ ‘moor’ etc. which creates anticipation in the audience. But as the play develops Iago mentions Othello a lot by giving him different other names. These named used by Iago gives us an impression that Othello is a bad
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