Fall 2013 Paper Number 1: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales-The Wife of Bath The Wife of Bath is a character that Chaucer presents as an attractive female in its prologue. She is a headstrong and very self-confident woman of her time who thinks highly of herself. Chaucer’s descriptions of her facial and bodily features are sexually suggestive. In the Prologue‚ Chaucer’s narrative involves her physical appearance describing her clothes‚ legs‚ feet‚ hips‚ and her gap-tooth
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The term character can be applied in several ways. It can mean either a physical being‚ or to their total pattern of behavior. In Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales‚ one is used to complement the other. He often uses certain physical characteristics to dictate exactly how the person is going to act*. This is most evident in the Summoner’s Tale. The Summoner is ugly‚ with a scary face‚ but also turns out to have a very ugly personality‚ between his job‚ attitudes‚ and values‚ which come out through his physical
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courts‚ system of taxation‚ and laws. To live a good Christian life guaranteed access to heaven in the afterlife‚ and a life of sin was to be sentenced to hell. Dante Alighieri was an Italian poet‚ who had an admirable depth of spiritual vision and was known for his intelligence (Encarta‚ 1). Between the years of 1308 and 1321‚ Dante wrote the epic poem‚ “The Divine Comedy‚” which described a journey through the afterlife. It takes place during the three days of Good Friday‚ when Jesus
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Sarcasm Definition of Sarcasm Sarcasm is derived from French word sarcasmor and also from a Greek word sarkazein that means “tear flesh” or “grind the teeth”. Somehow‚ in simple words it means to speak bitterly. Generally‚ the literal meaning is different than what the speaker intends to say through sarcasm. Sarcasm is a literary and rhetorical device that is meant to mock with often satirical or ironic remarks with a purpose to amuse and hurt someone or some section of society simultaneously. For
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his business of writing college papers for clients that cannot survive on their own in today’s education system. His clients that need help because they cannot write‚ they don’t speak English natively‚ or are wealthy and don’t want to do the work. Dante sees his clients as examples of how flawed the present education system is and uses them in his article to emphasize how it needs to be fixed. To him‚ it is the school system that has driven many of his clients to seek out his services and it is his
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Discuss Chaucer’s art of characterization with special reference to The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer’s art of characterization. What the General Prologue offers is a brief‚ often very visual description of each pilgrim‚ focusing on details of their background‚ as well as key details of their clothing‚ their food likes and dislikes‚ and their physical features. These descriptions fall within a common medieval tradition of portraits in words (which can be considered under the technical term ekphrasis)
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Wealth is what everyone seeks to achieve the happiness that he hoped for with the luxurious lifestyle. To the extent of blindly repeating words of forgiveness in the name of God to simply earn that wealth became the Pardoner’s daily routine. Much like a devil hidden behind the mask of a savior‚ the Pardoner preaches the very idea of forgiveness that he does not believe in or even takes any interest in. As he is blinded by the avarice for money‚ the Pardoner is characterized as fraudulent yet charismatic
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Geoffrey Chaucer. This story is about a group of 29 people who are all going on a pilgrimage to Canterbury to see the tomb of St. Tomas Beckett. In the tavern they meet in‚ they decide to have a competition for who can tell the best tale‚ and the winner will receive a free dinner. In this novel‚ Chaucer is trying to show how various aspects of life such as love and marriage are portrayed in the different social classes of a satire. In “The Millers Tale” and the “Wife of Baths Tale”‚ Chaucer shows how
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The Inferno‚ By Dante Alighieri is part of The Divine Comedy‚ which consists of the Inferno‚ Purgatorio‚ and Paradiso. The Inferno‚ written in 1314‚ is about Dante’s allegorical journey through Hell where he speaks to many of the sinners and tells their stories. The inferno presents the theme that God finds a just way to punish all those who sin. The author‚ Dante Alighieri‚ is also the speaker in the poem‚ and Dante’s audience is mainly the Italian people‚ as they are familiar with many of the characters
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Dante the Pilgrim visits many different people while on his journey through Hell in Dante’s Inferno. Each one of these tormented souls are punished for their crimes against themselves‚ society‚ and God. Most of these personalities bring no surprise as they are robbers‚ murderers‚ and blasphemers. However‚ the amount of Church authority figures in Hell is staggeringly high. The ironic revelation is never fully dissected by Dante but the implications of this writing may cause the public to turn a leery
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