Both accounts of the battle, Smith’s and Wood’s share some similarities but mostly share differences. The main difference between the two accounts concerns the shots fired by the Captain Parker's men. According to Smith's account, as reported by Major Pitcairn, Captain Parker's men shot at the soldiers when they approached the dwelling and the meeting house. Smith's account also stated that the men fired at the soldiers from other hiding places. Contrastingly, Wood's testimony claimed that not a single man in Captain Parker's camp fired a shot.…
I believe Shipman’s motives were several. One, his mother died of cancer which may have caused a form of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) which may have caused an duty to avenge his mother’s death. Second, he may have believed that he was doing the victims a service by practicing euthanasia and ridding society of a future burden and relieving the victim and family of a prolonged death (their savior of sorts). Third, he may have had a form of “God complex”, he was able to control a person’s future, and life and death were at his discretion. Fourth, psychopath; by all accounts, Shipman exhibited several traits of a psychopath 1) Trustworthy; 2) Steady-normal job; 3) Appeared to have a normal loving relationship with his family; 4) Engaged…
Geoffrey Chaucer uses the threefold narrative frame in The Canterbury Tales to provide his own personal reactions on each character and the stories they tell. With this narrative frame, Chaucer has both characters, the Pardoner and the Wife of Bath, represent a more general commentary on society, not only having an opinion on each pilgrim, but also having a strong critique on the society in which the pilgrims preside. Both the Pardoner’s and the Wife of Bath’s prologues is similar, containing elements of hypocrisy that reveal each character’s true nature; but oppositely, Chaucer use of these contradictions in each tale creates two different social commentaries. Using irony in the Pardoner's tale, Chaucer exposes the church’s deceitfulness,…
The most obvious similarity between the stories is the two men pining for the same woman. There is no doubt why Chaucer brilliantly places “The Miller’s Tale” directly after “The Knight’s Tale.” The Miller also pokes fun at the Squire, “crul was his heer, and as the gold it shoon,” is how he describes his character Absolon and it also very similar to what Chaucer tells the readers about the Squire (Chaucer 269). “The Miller’s Tale” is the first story we see with age being an important factor on relationships. Morgan shows us immaturity in “The Miller’s Tale” by emphasizing the use of vulgar language…
The Knight and The Miller In the Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer, there are 29 pilgrims headed to Canterbury from London. Harry Bailey, the host of the pilgrimage, presents a competition that each pilgrim tell two stories on the way to Canterbury and back to London and whoever shares the best story will be honored with a feast paid for by the other pilgrims. All of the pilgrims agree to do the challenge and they start the journey. The pilgrims each come from a specific class of society and depict a wide variety people of the medieval time period.…
Throughout The Canterbury Tales, there is a distinct distance between personal identity and the general statement “alle”. “Alle” means totally, or all together (University of Michigan); it implies a universal agreement without hesitation. The term is used frequently within the collection and functions as yet another aspect that distances individuals from companies and different ranks. In “The Miller’s Prologue”, the narrator reflects on the Miller’s words and character: “And therfore every gentil wight I preye, for Goddes love, demeth nat that I seye of evel entente, but that I moot reherce hir tales alle, be they bettre or werse, or elles falsen som of my matere.” (Chaucer, 73).…
I only have two sets of cousins like most families, but only one of them I like better than the other. Their names are Jake, Noah, and Carson Watkins. Jake is now 18 years old and is in the Air Force Academy. Noah is 15 years old, a freshman in highschool, and place tackle football for Western Christian School.…
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.…
Recently, I read a sensational book, Surviving the Applewhites. This stupendous book is written by Stephanie S. Tolan. Within the story, there are many important characters. Yet, I believe there are three characters that are the most important. They are E.D. Applewhite, Jack Semple, and Destiny Applewhite.…
Chaucer would tend to fall in the median of the two views. In the Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer seems to admire and acknowledge the Skipper yet also disapproves of his actions (Ruud). He depicts these feelings by describing the Skipper as excellent, ignorant, and strong, by having him tell a tale about the relationship between a husband and wife and another man.…
The first is that he shows the increasing middle class population. Many of the characters within Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales fit into at least one of the many molds and careers that would make them part of the middle class. The Reeve would be considered a part of the middle class because his job holds a higher, more honorable status than a simple peasant. As the leader of a village, the Reeve was respected by many peasants.…
The Miller’s Tale” by Chaucer, centres around one female and three men. Chaucer skilfully uses the limited number of characters to represent more than just two simple genders. By linking to feminist literature, critics spot a clear pattern within these texts of a woman’s struggle for equality and acceptance as a human being, before becoming a victim of gender stereotypes , similarly to Alisoun. However, in contrast, we can debate that the male characters within this prose experience gender stereotypes also.…
The Untold Story of Jake Rogers I don’t how to explain Jake Rogers, but we all knew there was something different about him. It all started one day he just didn’t seem like himself. No one knew; girl trouble, grades, problems at home, we didn’t have a clue. About a month goes by and one night he called all the guys up and said he found a place for a bonfire. Tyler and I just thought he was back to normal; we were wrong.…
Helen Rocha Per.2 SAHC:HR By looking at the Knight's and Miller's Tale in Geoffrey Chaucer's work of fiction Canterbury Tales 1476, one can see the distinctions between love and lust, and the tragic and comic endings desire, temptation, and ones emotional necessities may lead the human mind to. The Knight who portrays humorous aristocracy among pilgrims, introduces a courtly love tale that represents his social class. The Miller on the contrary represents the middle class in Medieval England, and coveys a fabliau tale, completely distinct from the Knight's tale. Both tales introduce the conventions of romance, and upshot of desire. While one tale engages on a spiritual meaningful convention of love, the other engages in sexual drive and the humiliation lechery may bring to ones table for the rest of their living.…
Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales’ are some of the greatest works in literature. He takes thirty-one different characters of a pilgrimage and tells their stories from his perspective. He uses some of his characters as allegories or interpreted with hidden meanings. Two of the tales that are similar yet different are The Knight’s Tale and The Squire’s Tale. These two tales have the same underlying theme but the tone and saturation are different in their own respects.…