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    List and Define the Core Democratic Values: List and identify the arguments of the political theorists we discussed in class. Thomas Hobbes- believed in absolute monarchy‚ social contract‚mid-1600s John Locke- limited gov’t‚ only educated classes can participate‚ amended the social contract‚ natural rights Jean Jacques Rousseau- majorianism David Hume- believed that each lvl of gov’t elect the next lvl Charles Baron Montesquieu- gov’t w/separated pwrs Define: Government

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    Satire of the Knight in Prologue and Knight’s Tale Satire. Satire is a biting literary tool‚ one that Geoffery Chaucer used liberally when he wrote his Canterbury Tales. Webster’s New World Dictionary says that satire is "the use of ridicule‚ sarcasm‚ etc. to attack vices‚ follies‚ etc." Using that definition‚ I think that all of the pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales are satirized to some extent; some of the satirizations are more subtle than others. The Knight is one of the pilgrims

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    of the iconic characters in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. Like a majority of the characters‚ she comes bearing a tale for the journey. Throughout The Wife of Bath’s Tale‚ the theme that “power needs to be given to women” is seen through the Wife’s perspective‚ the Knight’s conflict‚ and the old woman’s lesson. Chaucer depicts the Wife as a strong‚ outspoken woman. With this in mind‚ she is not the stereotypical woman of the time the The Canterbury Tales would have been written. The Wife

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    theories which the Wife of Bath provides in her prologue demonstrate many of the same ideas and theories displayed in her tale. Although in her tale there are a few idealistic changes. In both the prologue and the tale‚ women start off as empowered beings. At the end of the prologue the Wife of Bath ends up being in a demeaning position yet the end of the tale may be interpreted in two ways. One of the first points brought up in both the prologue and tale is the idea that sex is meant for reproduction

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    Canterbury Tales Paper: The Wife of Bath- In Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer‚ the description of the Wife of Bath in the “General Prologue” seems to contradict her tale and prologue. In the “General Prologue”‚ The Wife of Bath is described as a very confident woman who is superior‚ socially speaking. But this portrayal is contradicted by her tale and prologue due to the fact that her independence results from other people‚ more specifically men. From this it can be derived that it is not

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    Multiple ironies in The Pardoner ’s Prologue and Tale: Ironyception The Pardoner ’s Prologue and Tale contain numerous ironies and most of them are within each other. Sort of like a dream within a dream‚ Chaucer weave multiple ironies within the prologue and the tale itself narrated the pardoner to show the hypocrisy of the Roman Catholic Church during his time. Both part of the story has multiple level within in them and only through understanding them can the ironies be appreciated. The most

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    Kee Canterbury Tales Essay Stereotypes in modern times are viewed by most people as something to fight against and to get away from. People are always trying to break the mold and become their own person‚ independent from everyone else. However stereotypes continue to classify many people despite their attempts to differentiate themselves. But in contradiction to popular belief‚ stereotypes do have some value. Such is the case in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. In The Canterbury Tales

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    in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales were written by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. This masterpiece is one of the greatest classics of English Literature‚ it was and continues to be still very popular. Many manuscripts survived and it was the first work to be printed by William Caxton. It is a story about pilgrims travelling together‚ who tell stories on their journey to Canterbury‚ to pay tribute to Saint Thomas Becket. As it is a collection of tales‚ it varies in

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    In the story “The Canterbury Tales”‚ multiple pilgrims are on a long journey to a place called Canterbury to get blessed in the shrinery. While on this prolonged excursion‚ each character gets a chance to tell a story to pass the time. Each of the stories from the pilgrims reveals how they really are inside compared to their appearance. In other words‚ the way they are expected to dress or act is completely opposite from how they dress or act in society. The squire‚ Monk‚ and Reeve are each proof

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    Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales consists of a General Prologue and a collection of twenty-four tales‚ two of which are fragments‚ told by a group of thirty pilgrims‚ including Chaucer the Pilgrim himself‚ on their journey from Southwark‚ directly outside London‚ to Canterbury in order to visit the shrine of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. Chaucer uses the frame narrative technique in The Canterbury Tales‚ a story within a story. The outer frame’s pilgrimage sets the scene for the

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