organizations joined to campaign for an eight-hour workday. On May 1‚ 1886‚ this coalition initiated a general strike though haut the United States‚ the effects of which were particularly strong in Chicago. The three remaining Haymarket defendants were pardoners in 1893 by Governor John peter Altgeld‚ Illinoi s‚ who also issued a report condemning the trial as unfair. The strong public and state reaction against the Haymarket protesters has been palled the first red scare in U.S history. The Haymarket Riot
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Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales that demonstrate this use of irony are "The Pardoners Tale" and "The Nun’s Priest’s Tale." Although these two stories are very different‚ they both use irony to teach a similar lesson. The Pardoner is a hypocrite. He preaches about drunkenness‚ while he tells his story intoxicated. He talks about blasphemy and greed‚ and he attempts to sell fake religious relics and is incredibly greedy. The Pardoner uses his ties to the church to manipulate people into giving him money
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Geoffrey Chaucer was an English poet during the Medieval Era. While he does not appear to have been a social reformer‚ he drew attention to the hypocrisy of the Catholic Church in his works‚ The Canterbury Tales. Scholars agree that little is known about Chaucer. We do not have much personal inform- mation‚ such as “the memorabilia‚ letters‚ diaries‚ personal reminiscences‚ that cluster thickly around such later figures as Byron‚ Shelley or Yeats” (Morrison 7). Most
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contains three very different characters with varying stories. The Wife of Bath‚ The Nun’s Priest‚ and the Pardoner all have unique perspectives on life and morality. Each tells a story that reveals their true beliefs and personalities. Every story possesses a moral that goes with the character who told it. Firstly‚ The Wife of Bath and her tale can be compared with the Nuns Priest and the Pardoner. The Wife of Bath is an eccentric woman who is luxuriously dressed: “Her kerchiefs were of finely woven
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The Monk is next‚ an extremely fine and handsome man who loves to hunt‚ and who follows modern customs rather than old traditions. This is no bookish monk‚ studying in a cloister‚ but a man who keeps greyhounds to hunt the hare. The Monk is well-fed‚ fat‚ and his eyes are bright‚ gleaming like a furnace in his head. The Monk A man who tends the property of the monastery. He is fat and happy‚ loves good food and wine‚ and finds the taverns more to his liking than the cold‚ severe monastery. The
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hell. The Canterbury Tales: The Prologue‚ by Geoffrey Chaucer‚ contains pilgrims going to Canterbury‚ in which some of these pilgrims commit deadly sins. In this prologue‚ the Wife of Bath is guilty of lust‚ Franklin is guilty of gluttony‚ and the Pardoner is guilty of greed. The Wife of Bath committed the deadly sin of lust. She shows her lusty attributes through her attire. She holds a whip and wears red stockings. Her whip shows her control‚ power‚ and domination over men. Her red stockings show
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In medieval times‚ the pardoners in my opinion used traits of chivalry. Chaucer wrote another story called The Pardoner’s Tale that described a pardoner and his friends finding gold. The Pardoner went off to get some wine to celebrate and his two other friends decide to kill him when he comes back. While the pardoner was walking to get some wine he thought to himself that if he were to poison the wine than he can have all the gold. The pardoner then bought the strongest poison and put
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Authors often have an agenda when creating their works. These authors create their work with a specific agenda in mind to serve the purpose of making their own personal views apparent to readers. The Canterbury Tales--a collection of tales told by various people throughout a pilgrimage to Canterbury--serves as Geoffrey Chaucer’s own lament about the corruption of the Catholic Church in 14th century Europe.The pilgrims taking part in this pilgrimage are not necessarily the most pious pilgrims in the
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narrative poem‚ The Canterbury Tales‚ when he describes many of the clergy members with more vices rather than virtues‚ such as the Pardoner‚ the Friar‚ and the Nun. Throughout his poem
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God Transcended Though Death and the Old Man For my investigation and more in-depth analysis of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales‚ I decided to follow one of my comments in class down the proverbial rabbit hole and see what I could come up with. At the time my thoughts were diluted and abrupt‚ unable to effectively construct a substantial argument or criticism of why I thought my idea‚ the Old Man as a symbol of death‚ had any validity to it. After completing the course‚ many more aspects about the
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