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    ScholarWorks@UNO University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations Dissertations and Theses 8-8-2007 Geoffrey Chaucer ’s The Canterbury Tales: Rhetoric and Gender in Marriage Andrea Marcotte University of New Orleans Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td Recommended Citation Marcotte‚ Andrea‚ "Geoffrey Chaucer ’s The Canterbury Tales: Rhetoric and Gender in Marriage" (2007). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. Paper 591. This Thesis is brought

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    In Chaucers section of the Canterbury Tales‚ The Pardoners Tale various literary elements occur. He displays personification‚ and makes death a character‚ giving him life. He includes a moral to his tale which is greed is the root of all evil(Bible) and gives the story meaning. Chaucers plot is another key part to the story‚ because it proved greed can bring evil. Chaucer wrote the Pardoners Tale with the theme greed is the root of all evil he was able to show this by using various literary elementsThe

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    In the Canterbury tales‚ many lessons are learned from each story that is told. Along with examples of the seven deadly sins. Greed‚ pride‚ and lust are the main sins that are shown in the Wife of Bath’s tale‚ the Pardoner’s tale‚ and the Nun’s Priest’s tale. With many great morals‚ there has to be a really bad decision taking place. There is always something to be learned from a bad decision. The moral from the Wife Of Bath’s tale is that women desire dominance over men. In other words‚ women

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    In discussing Chaucer’s collection of stories called The Canterbury Tales‚ an interesting picture or illustration of the Medieval Christian Church is presented. However‚ while people demanded more voice in the affairs of government‚ the church became corrupt -- this corruption also led to a more crooked society. Nevertheless‚ there is no such thing as just church history; This is because the church can never be studied in isolation‚ simply because it has always related to the social‚

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    People may go through rough times but that does not mean they have to make rough times for 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

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    Dave Tagatac English III Dec. 1‚ 2000 Canterbury Tales Essay #1 In Geoffrey Chaucer’s Prologue to The Canterbury Tales‚ there was a Friar to accompany the party traveling to Canterbury. Hubert‚ as he was called‚ embodied the traits from which friars were expected to keep their distance. Chaucer is successful in using this white-necked beggar to bring to the readers mind corruption‚ wealth‚ greed‚ and lechery‚ all hypocritical and immoral characteristics for a man of the church to possess. Although

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    Essay Two: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight & The Canterbury Tales For your second essay you are going to analyze both Sir Gawain and The Canterbury Tales and explain their relationship to each other. You have three options for this assignment. Choose one of the three options. Do not choose more than one. Option One: Compare and contrast the use of humor in the two works. How does the use of humor help to support the central theme of each? Does one author make better use of humor? Be

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    In Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” he writes about many different character’s wrong doings accumulate around the Seven Deadly Sins and we can see that through the Wife of Bath’s tale. Envy‚ the desire to have a quality‚ possession‚ or other desirable attribute belonging to someone else. The character The Wife of Bath always wants more she has had 5 husbands and her clothing has to be the up most precise material and class. Being in the best clothing was high on her priority list because she made

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    (Synopsis)  The Canterbury Tales consists of the stories related by the 29 pilgrims on their way to Saint Thomas Becket’s shrine in Canterbury. Harry Bailey‚ the Host‚ had proposed a scheme in the General Prologue whereby each pilgrim was to narrate two tales on the way to Canterbury and two more while returning. In the course of the journey the Canon and his Yeoman join the pilgrims. However The Canterbury Tales are incomplete. There should have been a hundred and twenty tales in all according

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    I believe the most “Despicable” character in Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” is‚ most certainly‚ the friar. I understand using a position or title to perhaps better life as a whole. However‚ to use such a title or position to cheat others into losing what they have worked for and gained is detestable and a gross misrepresentation of a “holy” man. Chaucer’s character worked with the church‚ he had taken vows to serve the people and live a humble Christian life‚ instead‚ the friar used his position

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