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    saxon poetry …………………………………………………………………………………………… 4 Specific features of Anglo-saxon poetry ……………………………………………………………… 5 Beowulf ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 6 Middle English literature/ 14th century ………………………………………………………………… 7 Geoffrey Chaucer biography ………………………………………………………………………………… 8 The Canterbury Tales …………………………………………………………………………………………… 9 Historical Context and Themes …………………………………………………………………………….. 10 Religion ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 10 Social

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    The Geoffrey Chaucer Page‚ "The Wife of Baths Prologue and Tale"‚ accessed 4 March 2013‚ http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/teachslf/wbt-par.htm. Bibliography. Chaucer‚ Geoffrey. “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale.” The Riverside Chaucer. Ed. Larry Dean Benson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company‚ 1987. Lines 1109-76. "Iambic Pentameter"

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    (1) “The Miller’s Prologue” From The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Lines 12 – 26 The Millere‚ that for dronken was al pale‚ So that unnethe upon his hors he sat‚ He nolde avalen neither hood ne hat‚ 15 Ne abiden no man for his curteisye‚ But in Pilates vois he gan to crye‚ And swoor‚ “By armes and by blood and bones‚ I can a noble tale for the nones‚ With which I wol now quite the Knightes tale.” 20 Oure Hoste sawgh that he was dronke of ale‚ And saide‚ “Abide‚ Robin

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    Themes of Pardoners Tale

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    Recognizing themes in “The Pardoner’s Tale” The Pardoner’s Tale was written by Geoffrey Chaucer. It’s a narrative poem that describes the character of the pardoner. He describes his character by using different literary themes. The Pardoner is described through a use of symbolism‚ irony and personification. This tale uses symbolism in many different ways. In one way that I saw symbolism in the story is was through the coffin. The coffin symbolized that there would be death later on in the tale

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    Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” is a collection of stories told by fictional characters who are on a journey. “The Pardoner’s Tale” is told by a pardoner traveling with the group. He pretends to be a devout man intent on the salvation of others. However‚ he admits outright that he is an extremely greedy man and is only in it for wealth. In the story the pardoner tells‚ irony is heavily used. Verbal irony‚ situational irony‚ and dramatic irony are all used by Chaucer to enhance the

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    Diagnostic Essay: The Nun’s Priest’s Tale In the allegorical poem The Nun’s Priest’s Tale taken from Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales‚ sophisticated subjects—such as the meaning of dreams and the concept of free will—are discussed amongst the characters. However‚ despite the advanced philosophical nature of the discussion between the characters‚ the narrator depicts them as barn animals‚ which are not usually the type of creatures that are normally associated with intelligence.

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    The Parson’s Portrait The General Prologue in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales introduces a colorful set of characters in the late 14th century medieval society. It is springtime and many like to go to pilgrimages as mentioned on line 12‚ “Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages” where “palmers for to seeken straunge strondes/ to feme halwes‚ kowthe in sondry londes” (13-14). As mentioned in our textbook: Chaucer did not need to make a pilgrimage himself to meet the types of people that

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    Corruption is authority plus monopoly minus transparency. The Canterbury Tales is a book containing a compendium of frame stories told by different characters written by Geoffrey Chaucer throughout the late 1300s. Throughout the novel‚ Chaucer criticizes the injustices that take place in the real world by using characters and their stories as exemplum for the realities of the world. The Pardoner and Summoner are Chaucer’s two most intriguing male characters in The Canterbury Tales. Both characters

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    The Wife of Bath Prologue and Tale In The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer‚ The Wife of Bath seems to be one of the more cheerful characters on the pilgrimage. She has radical views about women and marriage in a time when women were expected to be passive toward men. There are many things consistent between The Wife of Bath’s prologue and her tale. The most obvious similarity that clearly shows the comparison between the prologue and the tale is dominance of both women over their husbands

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    Composers represent conflicting perspectives through their own unique experiences and values as their political and social contexts. Geoffrey Robertson’s self styled memoir ’The Justice Game’ written in the late 1900’s heavily reflects these conflicting perspectives in the ’Trials of Oz’ and ’The Romans in Britain’ through the employment of emotive and persuasive language and ridicule in the form of satire to which convey Robertson’s view through his eyes. Such conflicts also portrayed in Charles

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