(A)The Canterbury Tales is a poem that was written somewhere between 1386 and 1385 by a man named Geoffrey Chaucer; in which 30 characters on a pilgrimage to Canterbury coincidentally meet at a tavern, where they are challenged to tell the best story during their pilgrimage for the reward of a free...
For the first time, women were given the right to the goods paid for their bride prices; they received an inheritance from their fathers (albeit unequal from that of her brothers). Women also earned family rights through Islam: Islam limited the number of wives a man might take, gave a mother rights to her children, and obligated the father to maintain them even if under the mother's care. ... • Many of them seek humanitarian causes: caring for the sick, seek aid when pilgrims run out of resources, and run Islamiyya schools (Islamic schools). ...
The first time the audience hears about Juliet from her father, the audience get the impression that she is an obedient, innocent girl that would never deceive her father. ... Juliet and Romeo play with religious imagery throughout their sonnet, they talk about hands and lips touching, suggesting to each other, to follow their words with actions: 'For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands so touch, And palm to palm is holy palmers too.' ... This creates dramatic tension because the audience know that Juliet is deifying her father. ... I think she is just experimenting, bec...
