October 31‚ 2013 The Canterbury Tales: exposing the corruption of the church? Many of the stories and characters on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales involve the Catholic Church‚ an omnipresent institution in the Middle Ages. The author himself was very aware of the Catholic Liturgy as shown in different passages from this book. “It has been pointed out for many years in various ways by scholars that Chaucer was a Catholic‚ and as such‚ of course‚ posessed some knowledge of the beliefs‚ practices
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The Canterbury Tales‚ a collection of tales by Geoffrey Chaucer‚ was written in Middle English at the end of the 14th century (Encyclopaedia Britannica‚ 2011). It is considered to be the best work of literature in English in the Middle Ages (Johnston‚ 1998). Chaucer uses literary devices as no one had ever done. In addition‚ he chose to use English instead of Latin. This masterpiece is structured in a similar way as Bocaccio’s Decameron. The tales are organized within a frame narrative (Encyclopaedia
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David Miller Oppression on Women in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis Marjane Satrapi‚ in Persepolis writes about a memoir of a little girl growing in Iran. She refers to a secular pre-revolutionary time through contrast‚ the oppressive characteristics of the fundamentalist government upon women in specifics. In comparison‚ her work is very similar to Margaret Atwood’s‚ A Handmaid’s Tale‚ in which the central character‚ Offred‚ reflects upon her former life’s
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transformations have root in Metamorphoses by Ovid. This sprawling work of fifteen books creates an intricate world of mythology that Shakespeare used as inspiration time and time again. The Winter’s Tale is no exception: references both explicit and implied come from Ovid’s epic. The women of The Winter’s Tale are especially influenced by the stories of Ovid; the characters of Perdita and Hermione seem to pull from many sources‚ which allow them to become two of the most complex female characters that
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44). Famous words that many people know from their childhood. The tale of Rapunzel. A story that many adults and children are fond of. A picture of a beautiful princess with long golden hair looking out of a tower towards her handsome prince appearing in thousands of minds. Though most of the American population knows the general plot of the myth‚ most fail to realize that the story has changed greatly from the original Grimm fairy tale version. The role of Rapunzel taking a drastic turn. This can easily
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In The Canterbury Tales‚ Chaucer’s descriptive technique used to present the Reeve emphasized his physical characteristics as well as the success he attained in his occupation. It is evident that Chaucer gives two different perceptions of the Reeve‚ one perception is of his physical makeup and the other is of his success achieved in his occupation. In Chaucer’s introduction of the Reeve‚ he immediately begins with the Reeve’s physical makeup‚ as shown in this excerpt from The Canterbury
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in literature a forest is a place where you can both lose and find yourself. Explore the use of the forest theme in fantasy literature and discuss its relationship to the forest of folk and fairy tales. * Word count: 2700 words excluding quotes The forests of legends‚ myths‚ fantasy and fairy tales have become laden with cultural and psychological symbolism: The ancient trees in dark‚ uncharted places symbolise the refuge of magic and mystery beyond man’s dominion. They represent the unknowable
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Both the Summoner and the Pardoner are corrupt religious officials. A Summoners job is to bring people before the church so that they can confess their sins‚ and were typically lower class. The Summoner in The Canterbury Tales‚ does not do his job well. He let’s men keep their mistresses for a year just for a quart of wine. The Summoner does this because he too is guilty of these sins. He would drink a lot‚ and when he got drunk he would attempt to speak Latin in order to sound smart‚ which proved
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The Evil Side of Human Nature Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales became one of the first ever works that began to approach the standards of modern literature. It was probably one of the first books to offer the readers entertainment‚ and not just another set of boring morals. However‚ the morals‚ cleverly disguised‚ are present in almost every story. Besides‚ the book offers the descriptions of the most common aspects of the human nature. The books points out both the good and the bad qualities
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“The Tale of the Shoe” Quote and Response essay In the story “The Tale of the Shoe”‚ Donoghue discusses both the original story of Cinderella and the many stereotypical aspects it has throughout. Donoghue puts emphasis on how marriage is necessary in order to achieve the “happy ending” that everyone expects and how people assume that the characters in the story are heterosexual; the portrayal of characters who are presented as good always winning the characters who are bad. Donoghue gets rid of
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