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Charlotte Perkins Gilman/An Example of Heroism
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A 3 page research paper that argues that Gilman's life constitutes an example of heroism. Heroism is often equated with fighting in battle. While this is certainly brave, the soldier receives tremendous societal reinforcement and approval for such bravery. Heroism is also shown by those who go against the dictums of society and face social rejection and ostracism. It takes intense bravery and is extremely heroic to stand against societal mores and concepts that are widely accepted and say "This is wrong." In the nineteenth century, Charlotte Perkins Gilman took a stand diametrically opposed to the way in which women were treated during the Victorian era. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman/The Yellow Wallpaper
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A 6 page essay that discusses Charlotte Perkins Gilman's short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper," which continues to capture and fascinate the imagination of successive generations of readers, due to its harrowing story of a unnamed female protagonist's descent into insanity. The mental decline of Gilman's heroine is due to the fact that she undergoes a "rest cure" imposed on her by her well-intention, but tyrannical doctor/husband, John. Victorian society had a vested interest in maintaining the strict gender roles of the era, which included keeping women completely with the domestic sphere and accepting of a child-like role that was totally subservient to the authority of their husband. Gilman's story provides dramatic counterpoint to this social paradigm, as it indicates the damage that suppressing women's autonomy as fully-fledged adults can have on mental health. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: "The Yellow Wallpaper" and "Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution"
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A 6 page analysis of these two nineteenth century works. The author of this paper contends that books stands in testament to the historical sacrifice of female qualities for male qualities due to perceived societal need which has been a component of our lives presumably since the beginning of human reign on the earth. This sacrifice had perhaps reached its peak by the nineteenth century. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: PPyello2.rtf

Chaucer
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A 6 page paper which examines Chaucer and his work. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: RAchc6.rtf

Chaucer - The Tale of the Wife Of Bath
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A 3 page paper that offers a brief analysis of The Wife of Bath's Prologue and The Tale of the Wife of Bath. The writer comments on the major themes, the use of irony and satire and the relationship of The Wife to other Tales. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: PGwfbath.rtf

Chaucer -- Lovers and Love in “The Knight’s Tale,” “The Merchant’s Tale,” and “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”
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This 5 page report discusses Geoffrey Chaucer’s views on love and lovers as presented in three of “The Canterbury Tales.” Each of these three Tales clearly speak to much of the romance Chaucer saw around, him both in terms of love and passion, as well as in the sense of the adventure and lyricism of “romanticism.” They also demonstrate darker sides of human love in a way that presents a character but makes no particular judgment on him or her. No secondary sources.
Filename: BWchau.wps

Chaucer and “Canterbury Tales”
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A 5 page paper which examines Chaucer and his work “Canterbury Tales.” Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: RAchcb.rtf

Chaucer and Shaw Satirize Their Societies in “The Canterbury Tales” and “Pygmalion”
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This 5 page report discusses the ways in which Geoffrey Chaucer and George Bernard Shaw essentially deride the social constraints and assumptions of their societies in their two works. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: BWchasat.rtf

Chaucer and the Church
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An 8 page paper which examines Chaucer’s attitudes and beliefs concerning the Church as seen in his Canterbury Tales. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Chaucer and Women
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A 5 page paper which examines how Chaucer’s women are not necessarily feminist writings but merely stereotypical presentations of women in Chaucer’s time period. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: RAwmnchc.rtf