The story The Canterbury Tales illustrates many examples of how the church was corrupt during the medieval times. ... In the beginning of The Canterbury Tales, a nun is introduced, the Prioress. ... People who will be able to give him something back in return, not helping people out of the goodness of his heart. ... A pertinence of this is when the Friar loses control of his temper when the Summoner makes his tale about the Friar and tells about his sneaky, scandalous ways. ... Through analysis of The Canterbury Tales it is said that in one of the tales, "The Pardoner and the Wife of Bath, bot...

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Hawthorne himself may not be able to tell a person the exact point of his story, but that is the beauty of it. ... In reality it is hard to tell; some will claim he is and others will claim he is not. ... Therefore, despite Hawthorne's true feelings about women he was able to write a tale in which the hero is a heroine. Hester Prynne proves her heroinism more than once in the tale of The Scarlet Letter and to more than one person. ... In the conclusion of Hawthorne's tale he impresses upon the reader another way Hester betters the world. ...

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Conrad's novel, Heart of Darkness, is a complex narrative that challenges the reader on several levels. ... On the boat, Marlow begins to tell of his experiences in the Congo. Marlow starts his tale at sunset, and as his story gets gloomier, so the evening grows gradually darker. ... Marlow addresses his comrades on board of the Nellie saying: "When you have to attend to things of that sort, to the mere incidents of the surface, the reality - the reality, I tell you - fades. ...

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The Canterbury Tales is a collection of tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer published in 1475. ... These characters tell stories that are both conventional and unconventional to the Fourteenth Century. ... The critic Conor McCarthy's article; "Love, Marriage, and Law: Three Canterbury Tales" discusses these three conventions in The Clerk's Tale, The Franklin's Tale, and The Merchant's Tale. McCarthy focuses on how the idea of love, marriage, and law in The Clerk's Tale and The Merchant's tale attribute to the interpretation of the Franklin's Tale. McC...

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Resurrection is perhaps the theme of A Tale of Two Cities. ... Rebirth is a second or new birth and in the case of A Tale of Two Cities it is deserved. ... In chapter six of book the first while Lucie is greeting her father for the first time in eighteen years, she tells him that "the agony is over...I have come here to take you from it..." ... In chapter 13 when Carton stops at the Manette's house, he has a conversation with Lucie in which he tells her how he feels about himself. ... During chapter 13 where Lucie says to Carton "I entreated you to believe again and again, most fervently...

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Rossetti tells the story of two women and their betrayal that arrives in a vast number of levels each with varying effects. ... She creates a fairy-tale atmosphere, suggested by the inclusion of the goblin men and the adolescent independence of Laura and Lizzie who reside in this dream-like world, would suggest that this is a children's poem. ... This is implied when Lizzie, after eating of the goblins" fruit, staggers home, not knowing if it was night or day, to be met by Laura who, "full of wise upbraidings," introduces the story of Jeanie into the tale. ...

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He is credited with creating the detective story genre and with transforming the Gothic mystery tale of the Romantic Period. ... In "The Raven,"" the persona begins his tale in his home on a dark and gloomy December night in this paraphrase: Once, during a dreary midnight, while I pondered, weak and weary, over many amusing and peculiar forgotten folk tales, I fell sleepy, nearly napping (1-3). ... Let me see, then, what it is, let my heart calm down, and explore this mystery. ... Tell me, tell me, I beg you!... Take your beak out from my heart, and take yourself away from my door!...

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(4282 words) I have chosen to research and write my Extended Essay on Edgar Allan Poe and his portrayal of perversion, which is present in every human's heart. ... For the purpose of this Essay I shall analyze four of Poe's short stories; "The Black Cat," "The Cask of Amontillado," The Masque of The Red Death," and "The Tell-tale Heart." ... (p.13) Perversion, he believes, is "...one of the primitive impulses of the human heart." ... Poe constructs this story in such a way that the events of the tale remain somewhat ambiguous. ... (p.12) Even though the narrator denies th...

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The story that he tells about the three friends who kill each other for gold exemplifies the Christian them: Greed is the root of all evil. "The Man of Laws Tale" is one of a saint's legend. ... "The Knights Tale" from "The Canterbury Tales" can also be seen as pagan. ... "The Knights Tale" from "The Canterbury Tales" is also a story of adventure. ... "The Wife of Baths tale" is also one of adventure. ...

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Coverdale does recognize that he said these mean things out of jealousy, admitting, that, "Yes; it was out of a foolish bitterness of heart that I had spoken- (117). Curiously, Coverdale does the same thing to Zenobia later, when he tells her that "Hollingsworth could hardly give his affections to a person capable of taking an independent stand. . . . ... Although the relationship of Priscilla to Coverdale is important because it is through his eyes that we, the readers, see the story, their relationship is not as important as the two to be discussed below, because, as Coverdale says, "Prisci...

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The Condition of Man in The Heart of Darkness and The Lord of the Flies "Man is a fallen being. ... The stories The Heart of Darkness and The Lord of the Flies, through their dark, hopeless, and horrible descriptions of life, present the common theme that man, at his heart, is an evil, violent, and "fallen- being. ... "Ralph wept for the loss of innocence, the darkness of man's heart -. ... Contemporary developments in world politics also played a large part in The Heart of Darkness. ... It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a d...

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One reason was to hide the hardness in people's heart during that time by concealing the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven from the people. ... In this, we can learn how to be the right kind of person and also it teaches us why sometimes when we try to tell people about God and it does not seem to work. ... However, the results will be different as different is the quality of the heart of the people that hear the Word. ... To summarize the point of the Parable of the Sower: How a man receives the word of God is determined by his heart. ... Like the priest and Levite in the tale, we are s...

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Distraught, she prays to  Juno  to send her a dream that would tell her of the fate of Seys. ... He also tells her not to remain in sorrow too long. ... Nevertheless, in a common literary reversal, the narrator endeavors to tell the reader anyway. ... When the knight has finished his song, he suffers a kind of emotional heart attack and becomes deathly pale. ... The king's hunting party goes off toward a long castle, and a bell tolls twelve hours, the time allotted to the knight to tell his tale. ...

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Women in The Winter's Tale The winter's tale was one of Shakespeare's last plays. ... With a narration from the Time, the latter part, which tells the things 16 years later, turns from dim scenes to be bright and comic. ... As Patricia Gourlay has mentioned in her essay about The Winter's tale, the position of men and women in Shakespeare's society is as follows: That society is, of course, masculine, with male and female roles, in general, conventionally defined. ... When Hermione appears in the opening of the play, she is described as gracious, beau...

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(V, 1842-6) When liminally translated, this passage says to love him who, out of true love, died upon a cross and rose and sits in heaven; for he will not deceive any living creature who on him lays all his heart. ... His most well known piece of literature in this 21st century is the Canterbury Tales, and as far as we know, it isn't complete. We only have approximately half of the tales promised in the prologue by the narrator. We don't know for sure if Chaucer never finished the Tales or if he meant for them to seem incomplete and disjointed, but this same incompleteness and dis...

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In The Frog Prince such social aspects manage to show themselves throughout the tale. ... When the princess refuses to allow the frog to sleep in her bed and instead tells him to stay in the corner and he tries to convince her to let him up, he does so by threatening to tell her father of her misdeeds. ... Among the most famous of Grimm's tales is Cinderella. The tale begins with a rich man whose wife is sick. ... Shortly after her mothers passing, her father remarried and took on a wife with two stepdaughters who though fair on the outside were ugly at heart. ...

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The narrator uses this rosebush to symbolize a "sweet moral blossom" in his story, and to provide some relief in the "tale of human frailty and sorrow."   ... The old man, who calls himself Roger Chillingworth, tells her he would not poison her. ... Meanwhile, venerable Reverend Dimmesdale's body starts to waste away from a mysterious heart condition. ... Dimmesdale clutches his heart instinctively and admits to Hester that he hates Chillingworth. ... The next morning one of the townsman tells Dimmesdale, at church, that one of the minister's gloves was found near the scaffold. ...

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He states, now that I have finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. ... Victor's entire obsession with creating life is shrouded in secrecy, and his obsession with destroying the monster remains equally secret until Walton hears his tale. ... In contrast to this, Victor advances in his studies of science for two years, where he states: I paid no visit to Geneva, but was engaged, heart and soul, in the pursuit of some discoveries (49). ...

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In this story, Bartlett tells the tale of two men who had moved to a nieghboring village, much to the economic distress of the church. ... Then they ripped out the hearts, nailed the lids back and reburied the coffins. The hearts were taken down to the river crossing, where a huge bonfire had been lit, and thrown on it. ... But one that for their crime must fall, The youngest, most beloved of all, Shall bless thee with a father's name- That word shall wrap thy heart in flame! ... During this time, horror stories and gothic tales became popular in most of We...

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This is the view Fairytales give the reader and it is evident that childhood tales help to shape the listener or reader. ... Fairytales have been passed down through the ages, originating from the old oral Folk tales. ... It is this beauty that they use to enchant the heart of their Prince Charming allowing him therefore to take his place as their hero and rescuer. ... In all three tales the major theme of the female character is passivity. ... In the tale of Rapunzel the recurring theme is present. ...

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Over the years rumors have spread, saying maybe he was a little crazy, or his addictions drove him to his wild tales, but how does one write such detailed and elaborate tails when not in the right state of mind? ... These experiences are mirrored throughout Edgar Allan Poe's life's work in his repetition of tragedy and morbid tales expressed throughout his literature. ... " Considered one of his most famous writings, "Ligeia" tells the story of a man, also known as the narrator of this story, and his love and loss of his late wife, lady Ligeia, and her unusual resurr...

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His more popular works included Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities and A Christmas Carol. ... Estella doesn't have any desire with Pip because Miss Havisham has taught her to be mean and to break mens hearts. Pip visits Miss Havisham all the time until she tells him never to return because he needs to learn how to be a blacksmith. ... Because of this feeling that Pp gets from her he decides not to tell her of his love for her. ... Pip now finds out that Magwitch is a really nice man with a good heart. ...

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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio is known for his early religious paintings that synthesize with the late Renaissance and the decline of the Church's power. His bold, naturalistic style revolutionized Renaissance art by introducing a new style that was adopted by many artists. "Judith Beheading Holofernes" was the first instance where Caravaggio used a highly dramatic scene for his painting, inspiring artists of the 16th century Baroque movement to use intense emotions and realism to bring followers back to the Church (T). This early religious painting was made from 1598-99 in...

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the reservation radio deejay tells his American Indian listeners as ``Smoke Signals'' opens. ... the reservation radio deejay tells his American Indian listeners as ``Smoke Signals'' opens. ... And as the movie settles into the rhythms of a road picture, the two characters talk, and the dialogue becomes the heart of the movie. ... Lighter and less bittersweet on screen, and adapted by Alexie into a splendid screenplay, these tales describe a contemporary American Indian culture coming to terms with its past in offbeat, unexpected ways. ...

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The code of the comitatus is at the heart of the Beowulf epic. ... After that, fantasy claimed the realm of fairy tales and children's stories. In more modern times, it worked its way back from folk tales to modern literature, spawning in turn the realm of science fiction. ... The poem was created in the oral-formulaic tradition, probably developing over a period of time with roots in folk tales and traditional stories until a single, very talented poet put it in something very near its current form. ...

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