These characters tell stories that are both conventional and unconventional to the Fourteenth Century. The conventional stories follow the morals and ideals of the century. These stories are expected to be enjoyable to the members of the pilgrimage. Ironically, it is arguable that the unconventional stories represent at times conventional morals. ... The Clerk's selection of story is important because it shortly follows The Merchant's Tale. ...

• Word Count: 3668
• Approx Pages: 15
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A gentle but witty satire of courtship an marriage, tells the story of how the young ladies choose their husbands. ... This is quote from charlotte Lucas, one of the female characters in the novel, and a quote which very well exemplify the general feelings against marriage for the period and the people in upperclass England. ... A blunt restatement of this sentence would read, " it is an acknowledged truth in our particular society that a single woman without a fortune must need a husband who has one." .It is Mark Shorer who points out that this theme, so apparent in the story line, is rein...

• Word Count: 4276
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

Stories of the creation of the earth, mankind, animals, and plants along with the flood recountings are similar to other non-Jewish stories. ... In the Old Testament there are stories regarding female heroic figures and women that have taken independent action, like Deborah or Jezebel. ... The creation of man and woman simultaneously parallels the Mesopotamian creation story, Enuma Elish. ... It has been postulated that stories of the patriarchs in Genesis offer some indications of transition from matrilocal and matrilineal to patrilocal and patrilineal family organization in some of the tribe...

• Word Count: 2927
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

In her words, the aim is not to rescue the humanist Chaucer, but to see in what ways his stories might enlarge our perceptions of human life and its possibilities, even though they were written during and for a very different historical context (xviii). ... WB quotes scriptures to support her remarriages. ... She quotes the Christian principles to be fruitful and multiply. ...

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His troubles carry on through the story and become especially apparent in his sexual life. ... The only insight of Claude's childhood that Cather gives the reader is the story with the cherry tree and Claude's father. ... Wheeler is from the beginning of this story when he reluctantly goes down to the orchard and is clearly annoyed by his wife's physical weakness. ... This is a peculiarly strange point in Claude's story because at first glance it seems like Mr. ... Finally, at the end of the scene Cather puts the couple under the moonlight, which in most of Cather's st...

• Word Count: 5298
• Approx Pages: 21
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• Grade Level: High School

The Hours and Mrs Dalloway both display and illustrate many examples of gender and power struggles or conflicts. These struggles often occur between characters, but predominantly they occur between the characters and their emotions or other structures of power. In The Hours (film) and the novel, s...

• Word Count: 3710
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

The debate on contraceptives is filled with moral and theological sand pits. There are so many strongly held beliefs for, and against, for reasons unclear to most. None of the answers are simple to these hot button topics; for the most part they are complex and hover in a grey area of morality, tradition, and history. Sex and love are obviously two things that interests humans, and animals to an extent. People write songs, books, and poetry about both topics. ...

• Word Count: 2516
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

This quote is from Lester in a conversation with his friends, summing up the people of Linden Hills, of which he begrudgingly is one of. ... The story is built around the great great grandson of the original Luther and his wife Willa. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God," is a quote Max Lucado had said when writing about marriage (Reference 3). ... "For the love among Christians should be the same kind of love as that of every member of the body for every other one each one accepting the faults of the other, sympathizing them, and doing everything possible to help him," is a quote said by Luther (Reference 12 pg. 98). ...

• Word Count: 4288
• Approx Pages: 17
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

This 'value' is demonstrated in the following quote, " [..]I saw, while my family's honor lay stricken on the floor, I saw what was forbidden to see [...] my father's penis [...]. ... His psychological state and his behaviour revolves around his wife throughout this novel, which is quite easy to notice as the story progresses. ... The protagonist cannot believe that his wife is capable of such a terrifying act and seizes to believe it was her who commit the crime, but further evidence causes his trust to perish as opposite stories collide. ...

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The story Hard Times is set in an imaginary town by the name of Coketown. ... I feel that these quotes were necessary for you to see the environment in which the townspeople have been brought up. ...

• Word Count: 3472
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School