Augustine of Canterbury

that undertook the responsibility of expressing his ideological perspectives using different stories in The Canterbury Tales. The author used several people that told various tales within his written document. The irony is one of the primary themes express The Canterbury Tales. The author explores the boundaries of all the types of irony that revolved in his well-known tale, The Canterbury Tales. In the story known as The Wife of Bath, the author introduces a character that confronts all the…

The Facade of Piety The Church, perpetrator of religious persecution and intolerance of differing opinions of belief, this is the Church that Voltaire knew in his time. Often making satires of the Church through his various works with one of the most notable being Candide. Candide shows the various negative aspects of the Church with their traditional leaders being corrupt and immoral. These men tainted the Church and abuse their power; Voltaire grouped them into individuals that act the exact…

Characterization has been the cornerstone of literature for centuries. Character presentation can attain any framework or shame. In The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer uses thoughts and actions, to characterization of the Friar and the Monk to emphasize corruption in the Catholic Church. The monk is a religious character who is corrupt. Instead of reading on his cell, he prefers to go hunting. He also decides to wear decorative clothes instead of dressing in simple clothes. The Friar is…

Another effect of virtue that Wollstonecraft illustrates is having a strict regard for what is morally right and having adherence to moral principles. In the beginning of her argument, Wollstonecraft immediately states that “the strong gained riches, the few have sacrificed the many to their vices; and, to be able to pamper their appetites, and supinely exist without exercising mind or body, they have ceased to be men” (211). She directly attacks the elite displaying that man has been so corrupt…

“... If women had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance; very various; heroic and mear; splendid and sordid; infinitely beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man, some think even greater”( Shakespeare’s Sister, Woolf). Unfortunately, the greatness and extreme heroic acts in stories of women before the 1800’s, exist only within black inked pages. Women should be portrayed realistically. Shakespeare’s Sister written…

Miguel de Cervantes’ universally known work, Don Quixote of the Mancha, uses zany characters and outrageous adventures to comment on the old art of chivalry and its absence from contemporary society. The protagonist of the tale, Don Quixote, and his squire, Sancho Panza, venture 17th century Spain following the codes of chivalry, as any Knight-errant should. Chivalry values loyalty, self-control, perseverance, generosity, respect, and honor. Though he cherishes chivalry, Don Quixote, ironically…

The Handmaid’s Tale-a novel written by Margaret Atwood focusing on the dystopian society of Gilead in the near future, where freedom takes on a new meaning. While many feminists and non-feminists alike have branded it a feminist novel, Atwood herself has condemned this, and whenever asked the question she seems to always respond by replying that there are different types of feminism, as if to distance herself from the connotation of the word (Newman, Stephanie). She emphasizes that men and women…

Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur tells of many adventures and stories from the Knights of the Round Table. Of those knights, readers are introduced to Sir Lancelot du Lac. Formally known as Galahad, Lancelot was the son of the French King Ban of Benwick and Elaine. When he was just a young boy, his mother left him for dead on the shore of a lake in the woods. There, he was taken in and raised by a magical goddess, known as the Lady of the Lake. She teaches Lancelot his amazing sword skills…

In literature,Chaucer was known for his great descriptions of characters due to his exposure in all things. In the Canterbury Tales, he portrayed the three most predominant classes during the fourteenth century. He especially did a great job during these tales to show the reader that not all people are good just because of their background. During the fourteenth century, the court was mostly not a good example, the common people were very unfriendly besides the Oxford Cleric and Plowman, and…

Love to lust or lust to love. Love and lust are two abstract ideas associated with men and women in different ways that could potentially lead to corruption of people in power. Christianity is a religion usually accused of corruption, even though their beliefs enforce celibacy, throughout history Christianity is associated with lust. Even powerful leaders, for example a Duke, are expected to uphold high standards and follow their own laws, which coincide to the beliefs of Christianity at the…