There are so many different ways to interpret and analyze all of the stories in "The Canterbury Tales." ... When it comes to "The Pardoner's Tale," we can genuinely see how the teller, the Pardoner, shapes the tale in order to share his ideas, emotions, and beliefs with his audience. The Pardoner's true character comes out and is put on full display for not only the audience in the story but the actual readers of "The Canterbury Tales," as well when he tells his story. ... When it comes to "The Pardoner's Tale," the dynamic between the teller and the tale is unlike any other ta...

• Word Count: 1091
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

He later went to Italy and France as well as Russia and Spain. ... It was meant to educate others on how many black poets, just the one in the essay, wished they were white poets. ... John Alden Carpenter, William Grant Still and others have set many of them to music. ... He has help influence the careers of many young people. His skill and insight to the Negro people is comparable to Chaucer's treatment of his Canterbury pilgrims. ...

• Word Count: 1126
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Saxon lands are capriciously repossessed, and many Saxon landowners are made into serfs. ... Unbeknownst to his father, Ivanhoe has recently returned to England disguised as a religious pilgrim. ... He and his advisors, Waldemar Fitzurse, Maurice de Bracy, and Reginald Front-de-Boeuf, begin plotting how to stop Richard from returning to power in England. ... Walter Scott was first and foremost a storyteller, and Ivanhoe is his greatest tale. ... The main goal of the novel is to entertain and excite its readers with a tale of heroism set in the high Middle Ages, and any symbolic or thematic...

• Word Count: 5597
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School

Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. ... The mass destruction of the First World War led many towards more extreme affiliations, and both Fascism and Marxism held attractions for many intellectuals and workers, particularly during the 1930s. ... Before 1914, English literature and ideas were in many ways still harking back to the nineteenth century: after 1918, Modern begins to define the twentieth century. ... What went out was narrative, description, rational exposition; what emerged focused on stream of consciousness, images in poetry (rathe...

• Word Count: 10566
• Approx Pages: 42