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    Canterbury Tales Satire

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    Satire is defined as the use of humor‚ exaggeration‚ or irony to describe someone. In “The Canterbury Tales” written by Geoffrey Chaucer‚ satire is used often. CHaucer uses satire to describe a Prioress (nun)‚ a Cook‚ and a Friar. Compared to these people today‚ the features Chaucer gives them do not match up. To begin with‚ Chaucer uses satire to describe a nun. “Her way of smiling very simple and coy” (Chaucer 123). By saying this‚ he is saying that the nun is flirtatious. A nun is a woman who

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    Characterization and Analysis of the Friar in Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” Rebecca Souza British Literature I Professor Halpern 26 September 2014 The “Frere” or Friar‚ in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales‚ presents a complex character blah blah. tie in deceit The Friar is immediately introduced as a “wantowne and a merye” man (The General Prologue‚ 208). His portrait begins with pleasantness.. As his portrait is revealed line by line‚ we find that he is a charming

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    Hugvísindasvið Chaucer’s female characters In the Canterbury Tales: Born to thralldom and penance‚ And to been under mannes governance Ritgerð til B.A.-prófs ENS401G Særún Gestsdóttir Maí 2010 Háskóli Íslands Hugvísindasvið Enskuskor Chaucer’s female characters In the Canterbury Tales: Born to thralldom and penance‚ And to been under mannes governance Ritgerð til B.A.-prófs Særún Gestsdóttir Kt.: 131178-4099 Leiðbeinandi: Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir Maí 2010 Abstract

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    Canterbury Tales Presentation Rubric | NAME: | PERIOD: | | | | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | Organization | Audience cannot understand presentation because there is no sequence of information. | Audience has difficulty following presentation because student jumps around. | Student presents information in logical sequence which audience can follow. | Student presents information in logical‚ interesting sequence which audience can follow. | | Subject Knowledge | Student does not have grasp

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    The Canterbury Tales Big Brother Story When applying the show Big Brother with the story The Canterbury Tales choosing the right characters to intermingle in a household is very difficult. The eight characters I have chosen to live in a household together are The Knight‚ The Friar‚ The Squire‚ The Nun‚ The Cook‚ The Wife of Bath‚ The Manciple‚ and The Summoner. I believe that the chosen characters will make a very interesting and dramatic show. The first character I have chosen is The Knight

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    In the Canterbury Tales Prologue‚ Chaucer felt that the Church’s chaos experienced during the medieval era contributed to the declining trust of the clergy and left people spiritually demolished. The repeated outbreaks that the church experienced weakened the church by emphasizing the clergy’s inability to face obstacles. The clergy’s inability to provide help for people during a period of suffering caused people to question the values of the church. People looked for ways to gain control over their

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    The Canterbury Tales An Unfinished Extraordinary Work Geoffrey Chaucer set out to create a masterpiece of one-hundred and twenty tales‚ two from each of the thirty pilgrims on their journey to pay their respects to St. Thomas Beckett in Canterbury. Chaucer was unable to finish the masterpiece he set upon to create‚ but the twenty-four tales we are left with are masterpieces in their own sense in the form of The Canterbury Tales. (“Works of Geoffrey” xxviii) Geoffrey Chaucer lives on with this collection

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    Marriage in the Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucers Canterbury Tales have long been respected as the embodiment of popular sentiment toward love and marriage in the Middle Ages. In these talesChaucer repeatedly addresses two main issues concerning marriage: male vs. female sovereignty in marriage and the place of sex in marriage. Whether positive or negative‚ nearly all of the tales express some sort of sentiment toward marriage. One of the most blatantly expressive is that

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    The Canterbury Tales Thomas Becket – Thomas Becket was the archbishop and Canterbury in the 1100s. It was his duty and right to coronate the new King of England. When three other bishops tried to coronate a new king of England‚ Becket refused to sign the appropriate paperwork and the other three coroneted the new king‚ Henry‚ without him. When the King found out that Becket had done this‚ he said something that could be loosely interpreted as “Oh‚ that’s annoying” so the King’s guards‚ hearing

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    A Proloue to Canterbury Tales

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    Context The Canterbury Tales is the most famous and critically acclaimed work of Geoffrey Chaucer‚ a late-fourteenth-century English poet. Little is known about Chaucer’s personal life‚ and even less about his education‚ but a number of existing records document his professional life. Chaucer was born in London in the early 1340s‚ the only son in his family. Chaucer’s father‚ originally a property-owning wine merchant‚ became tremendously wealthy when he inherited the property of relatives who had

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