Canterbury Tales
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Canterbury Tales
There is a great deal of useful information to be found on the Internet but sorting through it can often be a hassle. There are some sites that are useful and give a great deal of helpful information but there are also many sites that just don't meet up to those standards. Since anyone can put information on the web, it is often hard to tell a good site from a bad one. Today, I am going to go through a few sites relating to Geoffrey Chaucer and his book The Canterbury Tales and give examples of good and bad sites relating to them.
One fantastic site that is on the web is The Litrix Reading Room at http://www.litrix.com. This site, which is edited by Sam Jones, gives free electronic distribution of books for use by readers. It gives a list of authors and the books that they have from them. This site has a great number of books and some of the choices are American, Horror, Misfits, Mr. Holmes, Mystery, Sci-fi and Westerns. This site is very helpful in the reading of The Canterbury Tales because it has an updated, translated version of the book that makes it easier to understand and follow the story line. I would recommend litrix.com greatly.
One very good site, which relates to Geoffrey Chaucer is http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/chaucer.html. This site is large in depth with many features that will keep any Chaucer fan busy for hours or help students find whatever they may need. Some of the features include: different quotes from Chaucer, a paragraph summary of his life, links to many of his works, audio excerpts from The Canterbury Tales, discussion groups and links to other Chaucer pages. This site was created by Anniina Jokinen and it is clear that she did a very good job.
Another fantastic site that relates to Chaucer is http://www.media.wright.edu/studorgs/english20403/chaucer.html. This site has all the links that a person may ever need for Chaucer. Some of the many links that are offered on this site is his biography, Chaucerian language, online reports, and online texts of The Canterbury Tales and medieval sites. Each main link has a few choices beneath it so a person can pick and choose between different sites and writing styles, which is always helpful. Getting different perspectives on different topics relating to Chaucer can only help a person in receiving a better grade and better understanding the material.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that there is a great deal of useful information on the internet, but there are also many sites that don't meet those standards.
- Recommends the litrix reading room at http://www.litrix.com, which gives free electronic distribution of books for readers.
- Explains that a very good site relating to geoffrey chaucer is http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/chaucer.html.
- Recommends http://www.media.wright.edu/studorgs/english20403/chaucer.html for people interested in chaucer's biography, chaucerian language, online reports, and medieval sites.
- Analyzes how one page about geoffrey chaucer shows what junk can be put on the net. this page has no detail and entails one paper and the paper isn't even good.
- Explains that there is a great deal of good information on the internet relating to geoffrey chaucer and his works, the only thing is finding the right location. the three sites i gave good ratings to are more than enough to suffice.
- Analyzes the squire as one of the thirty pilgrims travelling to the shrine of st. thomas a' becket in the canterbury tales.
- Explains that the squire was apprenticed to a knight before he could become one. he has ridden for sometime with the cavalry and places like flanders, artois, and picardy.
- Compares chaucer to the description of spring at the very beginning of the "general prologue". his clothes are embroidered like a meadow, "al ful of fresshe flowres, white and rede."
- Explains that the squire is a happy person and has many talents, such as making songs and words come together. since he is so young, his spirits and energy are high.
- Explains that the squire is a good character who one day will make his father proud. he is courteous, eager to serve, and perfect for his type.
- Cites abrams, m.h., and blakelock, jane. the norton anthology of english literature.
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- Common Sense, Ethics, and Dogma in The Wife of Bathanalytical essayMandell, Jerome. Geoffrey Chaucer : building the fragments of the Canterbury tales. N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1992.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how the language of this passage is strikingly similar to the hag’s confirmation of her knight's concession and their resultant bliss
- Analyzes how eisner discounts motifs (c, d, and e), discards (f) and acknowledges only a cursory resemblance in motif (h).
- Analyzes how eisner's "new" motifs can be attributed to the theme of the hunt, which he prematurely dismisses.
- Analyzes the specific nature of the choice, addressing eisner's motif (g), is unique in alice’s story as well.
- Analyzes how the choice of pride vs. passion presupposes the dominion of the lover/husband. the choice the hag poses is a much more powerful, complex dilemma.
- Analyzes how the inexorable relationship between the hag and the knight is central to the tale.
- Analyzes how magic is "intrinsic" to the hag's role. alice regrets the loss of magic in the world and casts aspersion on the church’s inauthentic, arbitrary dogma and ritual.
- Opines that the wife doesn't respect the church, as we are told in the narrator's profile.
- Analyzes how the wife of bath concludes her tale with a powerful prayer, reiterating her ethical lessons.
- Analyzes how alice illustrates the theme of overpowering, or failing to yield to women, in her prologue recounting her history with her fifth husband, and in a strongly didactic tale that parallels her own.
- Describes chaucer, geoffrey, "the wife of bath's prologue and tale." from the riverside, third edition, ed. larry d. benson.
- Analyzes how chaucer's canterbury tales assembles pilgrims who engage in a story-telling contest along their route. the pitting of tales one against another reveals the interpersonal dynamics of the societal microcosm.
- Analyzes how the hag corrects the knight's errant perception that gentility is his birthright in the telling of the wife of bath.
- Analyzes the use of the term ‘maistrie’, or ‘dominion’ in both accounts, and the concession to ‘chese and governe as me lest’.
- Analyzes how sovereignty, or dominion, is central to the wife of bath's tale as it explores the question of "maistree."
- Analyzes how alice and chaucer value religious truth only to the point that it is justified through practical, rational analysis. alice's tale is carefully carved from the source material to serve her didactic purpose.
- Explains eisner, sigmund, and mandell, jerome. geoffrey chaucer : building the fragments of the canterbury tales.
3341 wordsRead More - Comparing The Wife of Bath and The Canterbury Talesanalytical essayBoardman, Phillip C. "Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400)." Enduring Legacies: Ancient and Medieval Cultures. 6th ed. Boston: Pearson Custom Pub., 2000. 430-54. Print.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that women were discriminated against and oppressed in society, but they defied the stereotype of their sex, and spoke out against it with intelligence and strength.
- Analyzes the background of both the wife of bath and margery kempe's stories. the rebellious woman tells her story, defending herself in respect to the obscene amount of marriages.
- Analyzes how chaucer gives the wife of bath a rebellious personality that can be felt. the sanctity of marriage that she destroys with her prologue helps define who she is.
- Analyzes how margery kempe differs from chaucer's wife of bath in terms of personality, but she is similar to the character of the archbishop of york.
- Analyzes how chaucer's prologue and kempe’s autobiography give readers an insight into how women were beginning to challenge the christian church during medieval times.
- States that boardman, phillip c., enduring legacies: ancient and medieval cultures, 6th ed.
- Explains that boardman, phillip c., "margery kempe (c. 1373-1439)," enduring legacies: ancient and medieval cultures.
1115 wordsRead More - Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Essay - The Strong Wife of Bathanalytical essaySkeat, Walter W., ed. Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. 2nd ed. 6 vols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1899; rpt. 1972.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how chaucer had audience awareness as a reporter of the human condition. he could expect married men, and bukton, to share the great joke of matrimony, gender-based and misogynistic.
- Describes chaucer, geoffrey, and larry d. benson's the riverside chauce.
- Explains that skeat, walter w., ed. complete works of geoffrey chaucer. oxford: clarendon, 1899.
- Analyzes how the wife of bath's personality, philosophy of sexuality, and attitude toward sovereignty in marriage are offered as comedy.
- Explains that chaucer's persona is not silent on the subject in this vein. he quotes, with an innuendo most scholars since skeat have taken as domestic, "awak,' to me he sayde,/ ryght in the same vois and stevene" (ii.56062).
- Opines that chaucer's envoy is merely advising the shrews to fight back, not just against their persecutors, as did the wife of bath, but against clerks who write bad stories about women.
1101 wordsRead More - Comparing The Miller's Tale and The Reve's Taleanalytical essayChaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales: Riverside Chaucer Third Edition. Ed. Larry D. Benson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,1987. 3-328 Secondary
In this essay, the author
- Narrates how alan and john cheat alan out of a fair amount of grain.
- Analyzes the story of the reeve (who is also a carpenter) and the tale that contains the premise.
- Narrates how he finds the miller, a man with an ugly wart on his face, the reeve.
- Analyzes how nicholas tells the carpenter to build a boat that will carry him and his wife.
- Explains that arrathoon, leigh a., and beidler, peter g. "chaucer's tales" were published by houghton mifflin company.
1187 wordsRead More - The Characters in The Canterbury Talesanalytical essayChaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales: Riverside Chaucer Third Edition. Ed. Larry D. Benson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,1987. 3-328 Secondary
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how chaucer sets the mood by providing an overall idea of the type of character who is telling the tale, then allows that character to introduce themselves through a personal prologue and finally, the pilgrim tells their tale.
- Analyzes how the miller's physical descriptions were believed to denote a shameless, talkative, lecherous, and quarrelsome character. his personality is also depicted as being very loud and disturbing.
- Analyzes how the narrator urges the reader to find another tale to read before they are offended and waste their time listening to the miller.
- Analyzes how the color of her stockings, in particular, is significant, since, like the miller, her face is also described as "reed of hewe"
- Analyzes how the wife of bath loses control of her fifth husband, jankyn, and uses it to manipulate him into giving her back her property.
- Analyzes how the altercation ends the difficulties that the wife of bath was having getting along with her husband.
- Analyzes how the merchant, like the miller, is described as a devilish man with "forked berd" in "the general prologue." he is distinguished by his views on marriage, which compliment his business sense.
- Compares "the merchants tale" to "wife of bath" because the main character, januarie, is blind to many aspects of what the merchant feels are problems with women.
- Analyzes how chaucer describes the miller as having a "thombe of gold" in "the general prologue." the miller's appearance after the more solemn knight creates contrast in mood.
- Analyzes how the color red in the miller's face and hair can be interpreted in two different ways. it creates a comical mood around him that is carried by the reader into his tale.
- Analyzes how chaucer's advice to turn away from the story is enticing the reader and piquing their curiosity about the tale that the miller is eager to share.
- Analyzes how beidler asserts that the word large can be interpreted as an adverb rather than an adjective.
- Analyzes how the wife of bath has adapted herself to the role of a wife and uses her feminine powers to gain an advantage over him. the knight shows little respect for women in the beginning of the story.
- Analyzes how the merchant, like the wife of bath, uses his tale and prologue to offer his opinion of love and marriage.
- Analyzes how chaucer uses the pilgrims as instruments to illustrate a network of interlocking stories within the larger work.
- Describes chaucer's canterbury tales, including his 'foot-mantel', and irma taavitsainen.
4004 wordsRead More - The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chauceranalytical essayMiller, Robert P., ed. Chaucer Soucers and Backgrounds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. Print.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how chaucer interrogates the stereotypes in his tales from the aspects of these two genders.
- Analyzes how chaucer's tales are based on chivalric values. chivalry demands men to have courtesy, truthfulness, and loyalty and behave as a good servant to their kingdom.
- Analyzes chaucer's attitude about gender stereotypes of female, stating that women are rarely characterised as an individual group, but largely on the basis of their relationship with men.
- Analyzes how gender stereotypes of female are a portrait of women from men's perspective. the typical image of "wicked wife" reveals men’s criticism against women.
- Analyzes how chaucer challenges gender stereotypes of women through questioning their properness.
- Analyzes how dorigen weeps for being trapped in the dilemma that she has to follow her words and betrays her husband.
- Analyzes how chaucer's image of the wife is a powerful challenge against gender stereotypes of women in the middle ages.
- Analyzes how chaucer describes her as an attractive woman in the general prologue. she exploits her gender advantage to manipulate men with her sexual attraction within marriage.
- Analyzes how the wife seeks dominance over men in her life, but the ending of her story is worth rethinking.
- Concludes that chaucer's interrogation of gender stereotypes in his tales reflects his understanding of the role of male and female in medieval society.
- Explains miller, robert p., ed. chaucer soucers and backgrounds. new york: oxford university press, 1977.
- Analyzes how the wife overturns male and female positions in marriage and opposes moral requirements for women.
2071 wordsRead More - Comparison Of The Divine Comedy Inferno And Dante's Infernoanalytical essayGeoffrey Chaucer was born around 1340, in London, Great Britain. He was a court writer during the rule of Edward III and Richard II. He had many acquaintances within nobles of that time. During his job, court writer, he observed the immoralities in the court, and as a reaction wrote his works. His purpose of his works was to entertain, and he mostly used the English language in order to deliver his work to as many people (to both noble, and not noble people) as possible, because French was the noble language, and English was a speaking language. Chaucer uses different kinds of people as his character, to deliver a real story. The Canterbury Tales is the most famous work of the Geoffrey Chaucer. It consists of the tales
In this essay, the author
- Compares dante's the divine comedy, inferno and the canterbury tales. both stories have characters that are on religious journey, and both are epic poems.
- Explains that geoffrey chaucer was born around 1340, in london, great britain. he was a court writer during the rule of edward iii and richard ii.
- Compares dante alighieri's divine comedy, inferno, and his commentary on politics of florence at that time.
- Analyzes how chaucer picks a real and regular figure, while dante's characters are highly symbolic.
- Analyzes how chaucer's work is more realistic because his theme is probably the description of the life of that time. dante creates an image of hell, how souls are being punished, and hell guardians like cerberus
- Analyzes how chaucer's inferno is religious, but less religious because he uses high sins like rape, greed, drunkenness, while dante in canto 3 punishes someone who did not commit themselves to either good or bad.
- Analyzes how dante uses contrapasso, the most important law in his hell, to punish sinners. chaucer's characters commit their own sins, and lead them to their punishments
- Analyzes how chaucer's work is easier to understand and gives a better background of characters. to receive dante’s message, the viewer has to make further reading and research about some characters and what kind of crime he/she committed
- Concludes that chaucer's the canterbury tales delivers message to viewers through its tales, characters, and being more realistic than dante’s inferno.
1080 wordsRead More - Epic of Beowulfanalytical essayChaucer, Geoffrey. “The Canterbury Tales.” The Norton Anthology of English Literature: 6th edition New York: Norton. 1996
In this essay, the author
- Argues that people have been fascinated by ideals of heroism, chivalry, and what we now refer to as romance for a very long time.
- Opines that modern police officers, soldiers, paramedics, fbi/cia agents, and any who take on with their livelihood the motto "to protect and to serve."
- Analyzes how the idea of glory and honor is summed up in "beowulf" by the line "heaven swallowed the smoke" (l. 3155).
- Compares "beowulf" to a book by david laven called napoleon's legacy: problems of government in restoration europe.
- Analyzes how grendel's mother remains unnamed in the text of beowulf.
- Concludes that women's conquest for their rights can relate to one of their favorite things in the world known to us as literature.
- Analyzes the symbolism of the pentangle versus the green girdle. the shield represents chivalry in its impossible idiom.
- Analyzes how the green girdle, the kings and gawain's conversation, shows that even though we are not perfect, we can always learn from our mistakes and improve upon our weaknesses once realized and admitted.
- Explains the norton anthology of english literature: 7th edition.
- Explains chaucer's "the canterbury tales." the norton anthology of english literature: 6th edition.
1827 wordsRead More - Canterbury Tales: Two Character Exegesis The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer are a collection of Middle English short stories written about a group of pilgrims telling tales as they journey to the shrine of St Thomas Becket. In this collection of tales, Chaucer introduces a slew of interesting characters representing all walks of life who present intriguing stories of their lives. The character of Chaucer serves as our guide throughout this story. Chaucer’s narration is unique in that we see him both as someone who could be there in the tavern with the group but at other times, Chaucer is a narrator who seems to know far more than he should.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how the last line of the portrait shows that any indiscretions she might have had before marriage were nothing to be ashamed of.
- Analyzes how the portrait calls the summoner a liar and references the fact that his main goal is filling his purse. his chief means of making his money is to bribe individuals not to be delivered of summons that he may have laid the charges for.
- Analyzes chaucer's canterbury tales, a collection of middle english short stories about pilgrims telling tales as they journey to the shrine of st thomas becket.
- Analyzes how the woman's sexual prowess is mentioned, but not humiliation, in the portrait of the wife of bath.
- Analyzes how chaucer's wife of bath is a critique of society during his lifetime with subtle satire.
947 wordsRead More - Pilgrim Evaluation Essayanalytical essayChaucer wrote many great tales in the Canterbury tales. Two of the best ones wear The Wife of Bath tale and The Pardoners tale. The Pardoners tale had the upper hand and would have one the challenge. The stories that he wrote had an abundance of life changing knowledge of wisdom. It was also very moral because he taught us that the love of money is the root of all evil. Chaucer wrote a great story for The Pardoners tale it was very entertaining and the moral of the story was just perfect.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how canterbury tales by geoffrey chaucer is about stories in a story.
- Analyzes how geoffrey chaucer created and portrayed a great character in death. the men found death but the must have been drunk or stupid.
- Analyzes how chaucer entertained his readers with sexual humor in the wife of bath tail.
- Analyzes how aurelius discovers something more than what he was looking for. he meets a beautiful maiden who refuses to enter her sanctuary.
- Analyzes how chaucer wrote many great tales in the canterbury tales, including the wife of bath and the pardoners tale.
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