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Papers On Literature
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Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' / The Merchant's Tale
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9 pages in length. A complete review of the Merchant's Tale (from the Canterbury Tales) -- covering an overview of the story, the character of the merchant himself, wording, Chaucer's use of sarcasm, and the Tale's religious implications as well. No Bibliography.
Filename: Merchtal.wps
Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' / The Physician's Tale vs. The Clerk's Tale
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A 10 page research paper that examines two of the narratives in Chaucer's masterpiece The Canterbury Tales. While both tales appear on the surface to deal with religious issues, it is also possible to see alternative meanings within both stories. Some critics have speculated that Chaucer couched subtle criticism of both the church and political authorities of his day within a context that appearedóon the surfaceóto be dogmatically correct according to the accepted beliefs of the time. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Phyclerk.wps
Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' / The Status Of Women In Chaucerian Times
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A 6 page paper providing a chronicle of women's social and legal status during the period of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The paper looks at two of Chaucer's women in particular -- the Prioress and the Wife of Bath -- examining both their social roles and the way those roles were perceived in their own day. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: Chaucy6.doc
Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' / Wife of Bath
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A 6 page paper on the character of the Wife of Bath in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The paper particularly centers around her feminist arguments justifying both her aggressiveness and her sexuality. Bibliography cites 4 sources.
Filename: Wifebath.doc
Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' / Wife Of Bath - Physical Descriptions
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A 5 page essay which examines how Chaucer's expert use of physical description contributed to his characterization of the Wife of Bath. The writer shows how Chaucer's description laid the basis for the Wife's characterization and helped establish her as a cultural icon which has endured for over 600 years. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: Wifeba2.doc
Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' vs. Dante's 'Divine Comedy' / Evil
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An 8 page paper analyzing the way evil is portrayed in The Canterbury Tales and The Divine Comedy. The paper concludes that whereas Dante sees evil as being a catastrophic impediment toward man's attainment of the divine -- and thus something to be taken very, very seriously -- Chaucer sees its human manifestations in what we would actually consider a more 'modern' sense: as irony. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: Evildc.wps
Chaucer's 'Merchant' and 'Wife of Bath' / Marriage
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An 8 page comparison of these two stories from Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales', in terms of the respective storyteller's views on marriage. The paper argues that the tales chosen by each storyteller perfectly embody their own situations in regard to marriage; and both deviate substantially from the cultural norm of the times. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Mercbath.wps
Chaucer's 'The Pardoner's Tale' and Malory's 'Every Man'
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In this 6 page essay, the writer describes how we can infer much about an author's society & era from the stories they wrote and the way they were presented. The two examples cited are 'The Pardoner's Tale' from Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' and 'Every man' by Malory. Issues concerning wealth, social class, etc;-- are discussed with relevance to characters in each of these two classic stories. No Bibliography.
Filename: Pardoner.wps
Chaucer’s “Knight’s Tale” and the Cult of Courtly Love
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A five page paper analyzing Chaucer’s use of the Knight’s Tale to illustrate the courtly love genre so popular in the era immediately preceding his own. The paper defines courtly love and shows how it is manifested in Chaucer’s story. Bibliography lists five sources.
Filename: KBchau12.doc
Chaucer’s “Shipman’s,” “Cook’s,” and “Miller’s” Tales
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A six page paper looking at three of the stories in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales: The Shipman’s Tale, The Cook’s Tale, and The Miller’s Tale. Each story is shown to be a ribald story which is told at the expense of a lower-class tradesperson or rural bumpkin from an implicitly upper-class, educated point of view. Bibliography lists six sources.
Filename: KBchau14.wps
Geoffrey Chaucer’s Life
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A five page paper looking at the life of this great author of the fourteenth century. The paper shows that although he spent his life in government service, this helped his literary career through exposing him to different locales and diverse types of people -- influences which came together in The Canterbury Tales. Bibliography lists four sources.
Filename: KBchau13.wps
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