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Chaucer/Merchant's & Franklin's Tales
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A 14 page research paper that examines the Merchant's and the Franklin's Tales and looks specifically at the cultural, metaphorical and allegorical significance of Chaucer's references to medieval gardens and landscapes in these representative stories. Chacerian critical scholarship indicates there is a great deal that can be discerned on this subject and the writer discusses how this information illuminates modern readers' understanding of the stories. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Chaucer/Pagan Setting in Knight's Tale
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An 11 page research paper/essay that analyzes Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale" from his medieval masterpiece The Canterbury Tales. The writer specifically addresses the pagan setting used in this tale and argues that it facilitates social commentary by distancing the narrative in time. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Chaucer/Significance of Love in 2 Poems
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A 14 page research paper that argues that love plays a pivotal thematic role in two of Geoffrey Chaucer's greatest poems, The Book of the Duchesse and The Parliament of Fowles. While Chaucer is acknowledged as one of the greatest and most eloquent advocates of love in English literature, in these poems, he qualified his endorsement and dedication to love by placing it within certain institutional and societal boundaries. In The Book of the Duchesse, his elegy of consolation over the death of the Black Knight's lady is couched within the parameters established by the conventions of courtly love. Likewise, while the Parliament of Fowles is a love poem, Chaucer pictures love as susceptible to certain natural laws that should be meticulously followed. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Chaucer/The Merchant's Tale
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A 5 page research paper that examines various themes and characteristics that are demonstrated in Chaucer's "Merchant's Tale" from his classic work The Canterbury Tales. The writer addresses marriage, imagery, appearance and reality, as well as other themes. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Chaucer/Troilus and Criseyde
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A 3 page essay that examines Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, which can be regarded as a study on the nature of courtly love. Having set up the narrative of the two lovers as a prime example of courtly love in books 1 through 3, the betrayal of Troilus, a Trojan prince, by his beloved lady, the fair Criseyde, must have come as something of a shock to Chaucer's medieval audience. However, Chaucer prepares the reader for this outcome by meticulously describing the seduction tactics to which she is subjected by the handsome Greek soldier, Diomede. Chaucer's portrayal of Diomede is crucial to the believability of Criseyde's actions and subsequent betrayal. No additional sources cited.
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Chaucer/Use of Irony
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A 3 page essay that examines Chaucer's use of irony in describing the Prioress in the Prologue. The writer discusses this description in detail, offering translations of the description from the Middle English and pointing out where Chaucer used irony to comic effect while also showing the Prioress to be a shallow hypocrite rather than a spiritual leader. No additional sources cited.
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Chaucer/Wife of Bath & Role of Women
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A 3 page essay that examines the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale in regards to what it tells the modern reader about the role of women in medieval society and how women were viewed during this time. No additional sources cited.
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Chaucer: Compassionate towards Human Frailty?
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5 pages in length. The question we shall seek to answer herein is whether Chaucer was tolerant of human frailty. By examining several of his works in general, it is easy to see that Chaucer not only was not tolerant of human shortcomings, but he actually preyed upon them, making light of them in his works. He played up the image of man as a bumbling fool, and the tragedy and trouble that many took upon himself foolishly. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Chaucerian Comedy
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A 5 page research paper that looks at Geoffrey Chaucer's use of humor in his comedic, medieval masterpiece The Canterbury Tales. The writer particularly focuses on the Miller's Tale as being exemplary of Chaucer's gift for comedy. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Chavez's Face of an Angel
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This 5 page paper provides an analysis of this work that centers around the life of a Latin American waitress. The protagonist is discussed in depth and American culture is compared to Latin American culture as it is portrayed in this novel. No additional sources cited.
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