The story The Cask by Edgar Allan Poe introduces Montresor, a lunatic, who gets revenge on a fellow named Fortunato in a disturbing way. Montresor finally reached the point where he could no longer handle being made fun of by Fortunato. He does not solve his problems in a mannerly way. Montresor instead takes Fortunato in his catacombs and makes sure Fortunato is constantly drinking wine so he will not be able to get away. Once they get to the destination where Montresor will do his evil, he chains Fortunato to a hole in the wall and he starts to enclose Fortunato by covering the hole with bricks.…
He uses this varying satire to directly attack his audience and enforce his point that he is making. Throughout The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer’s use of satire helps him reach his intended audiences.…
Salvation and redemption is a concept that typically concerns eternal, spiritual deliverance from our sin. In the two stories “Bartleby the Scrivener” and “Elephant”, the two narrators had led lives full of heinous wrongdoings and corruption and wished to redeem themselves, by “giving” to others. Instead of offering others true charity and sacrifice, they placed the highest value on items, and were overwhelmed by the hunger of gaining, instead of truly wanting to help those in need. By doing this, they abased the meaning and sacrifice of redemption and abnegated their right to gain it. They expected gain from their material gifts.…
The Summoner in the Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffrey Chaucer, is best described as being passionate. He is passionate about many things like money, wine, girls, and much more. Passionate has a very simple origin and means basically the same thing as it’s origin word, passion. The Summoner can also be considered passionate about his job, since his job is what gives him his money, wine, etc. He is even passionate about collecting bribes with his job.…
In his literary masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer shows that in “The Clerk’s Tale” a man may abuse his power in a marriage when trying to assert dominance over his wife. A man named Walter puts his wife through many difficult challenges to test her loyalty for him. He lies to her by telling her that his people are unhappy with how poor she is and to solve the problem by killing their children. Instead of killing her children, Walter sent both his daughter and son to Bologna to be foster. Despite getting her kids taken away from her, she seems to have no regret doing anything that her husband asks her to do.…
In the Pardoner’s Tale, us readers are met with the narrator known as the pardoner”. We are quick to find that he openly admits to preaching so that he may make lots of money. Every sermon that he preaches is about greed: He preaches about greed then he brings out a bag of “relics” (which he tells the pilgrims in the prologue are fake), then he has his congregation touch them claiming that they have “healing powers”. They believe the pardoner make their offerings to him which he pockets). According to the Pardoner, he would rather take the last penny from a poor lady and her starving family, than give up his money.…
For one, “The prologue attributed to the Wife of Bath is longer than any other in The Canterbury Tales. It is also longer than her tale” (Crossref-it). Another point of interest is The method which Chaucer expresses a lesson through the Wife’s prologue: by exaggerating the Wife to be extremely promiscuous while also attempting to respect the idea of marriage, Chaucer is able to point out the flaws of the thoughts behind marriage at the time. “It is also longer than her tale. It is, rather, a device constructed by Chaucer to satirise abuses of - and by – women, through exposing them and presenting that exposure as if it is coming from one of the abusers” (Crossref-it).…
On the basis of entertainment and lesson-teaching, it is not difficult to see which tale in The Canterbury Tales is the best. Each pilgrim journeying to Canterbury tells their own story with a lesson and a bit of entertainment, and their stories reflect their actions and personalities. “The Pardoner’s Tale,” “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” and “The Miller’s Tale” represent their storytellers while capturing the attention of the reader. However, only one of the tales has the strongest lesson and the most balanced amount of entertainment. “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” rises above the other stories in terms of lesson-teaching and entertainment because it demonstrates a revolutionary lesson while resisting the urge of being too obscene or too hypocritical like the other two tales.…
The Miller In Middle English times there were certain levels of class. Back then, it was well-known that the highest level of chivalry and character lived within the knights. No one was supposed to ever talk over or try to outdo a knight because the men back then had to know where they were in the hierarchy. Carpenters, millers, even blacksmiths were all considered peasants, so when the Miller began his tale by interrupting the Knight it already shows the character of the Miller.…
When it comes to a person having a remarkable reputation in life they are willing to do anything to protect it and keep it sterling. In The Crucible written by Arthur Miller is a play based on the actual events during the Salem Witch Trials. During this time period your reputation matter to a full extent. Three characters name John Proctor, Judge Danforth, and Reverend Parris lived up to their name in Salem and Puritan Society. Any unethical behavior these men were involved in can jeopardize their well-known reputation.…
Sean Goodwin Mrs.Regester English 11 20/9/17 Danforth’s Trial The Crucible,a play, written by Arthur Miller tells the story of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. This calamity started when a group of girls started dancing in the woods. When the town found out about this and made a whole conspiracy that it was witchcraft.…
Chaucer uses language to expose the truth of what is really happening in society. If people knew the truth of what the Pardoner is doing it would cause a revolution. The Pardoner says, “But let me briefly make my purpose plain; I preach for nothing but greed of gain and use the same old text, as bold as brass, Radix malorum est cupiditas. And thus I preach against the very vice I make my living out of ― avarice” (Chaucer 41 - 46 ). The Pardoner admits that he’s not pardoning them of their sins out of the kindness of his heart but purely for gain.…
Honesty is more than telling the truth, it means having integrity. The pilgrim who shows these traits the most is the Knight. The Knight "followed chivalry/Truth, honor, generousness, and courtesy"(Lines 45-46). He does great things for his kingdom and the people in it. He even remains humble in spite of those achievements.…
Since Herman Melville’s publication of Bartleby the Scrivener in 1853, literary enthusiasts have argued and discussed its true meaning as a story. Possibly a tale on capitalism, possibly one on transcendentalism, the simplicity of the plot and shortness in length allows room for interpretation. The relationship between Bartleby and the narrator, his boss, illustrate the importance of rules and work, sometimes meaningless, in a capitalist culture and what happens when those rules are not followed. Bartleby’s character and function as a member of society is a statement against capitalist conformity- using the narrator's opinions, storytelling, and syntax illustrate this concept.…
In The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer based each character off all the various kinds of people from the Middle Ages. He makes most of the pilgrims very true to what they were stereotyped as at the time, but he also gave each one of them very distinct personalities and idiosyncrasies, such as the knight having a rust stain on his undergarment. Chaucer’s version of a Middle-Age innkeeper, Harry Bailly, was very accurate to what a good innkeeper would have been like at the time, as was his inn, The Tabard. In the Middle Ages, the period roughly between the fall of Rome and the beginning of the Renaissance, 476-1400 BC, (Middle), owning an inn was a very lucrative business (“Medieval”).…