Prologue

was no different in the 14th century. The Wife of Bath is the enigma of every century when it comes to religion and sexuality, especially the one in which she exists. She manages to maintain both religious and sexual personas. The Wife of Bath’s Prologue includes both religious and sexual elements even though they are in direct conflict with each other. It also utilizes both religious quotes and sexual innuendos in an effort to better represent what the character is actually like and the paradox…

Chaucer is no stranger to writing parodies of his own stories in The Canterbury Tales, as seen in the Reeve’s Tale working off of and following immediately after The Miller’s Tale. Similarly, The Friar’s Tale closely parallels and also follows right after The Wife of Bath’s Tale. Chaucer aligns these two tales to enforce the point that they should not be interpreted separately, but rather they should be accepted as an entire unit. And by implementing textual similarities, Chaucer blurs the lines…

Pedro Paramo was written in 1955 in Mexico, a deeply Catholic country. The influence of this Catholicism, along with Juan Rulfo’s disillusionment with the politics of the church, is evident throughout his novella. Through Pedro Paramo, Juan Rulfo criticises the opportunistic nature of the church, portraying the greed of the church elites and their willingness to sell salvation to cater to their own desires while also portraying the elites as an extension of God, thus implicating Him in their…

Geoffrey Chaucer, the father of English literature and the author of The Canterbury Tales, uses two contradicting characters to help satirize the corruption within the Catholic Church. The Canterbury Tales is about thirty pilgrims who are traveling to the shrine in Canterbury for vacation or religious reasons. Chancer’s intention is for each pilgrim to tell a total of four tales. Sadly, Chaucer dies before completing the story. The purpose of The Canterbury Tales is to satirize the corruption…

The Canterbury Tales is one of Chaucer's most famous writing. He wrote this in Middle English. The characters in the story were to tell two stories when they were heading to Thomas A Becket’s shrine and when returning home. During this period, we are faced with various characters who represent a person or degree in society during Medieval Times. The Canterbury Tales in the Age of Chivalry shows how women are in power and control of their own lives by displaying how each character in the story…

In the Canterbury Tales, the reader is quickly introduced to the game of the host. The Host’s game takes place during the pilgrims’ journey to see the shrine of Thomas A. Becket, and involves each pilgrim telling their own tale in any manner they would like to give. The first tale presented to the host is the Knight’s tale. A noble tale about a wise king. Another tale offered to the host is the Pardoner’s tale. This tale was much more obscure and would require the listener to pay a much closer…

identified him. High-born and common folk alike feared Burton because of the tales told about his ‘gifts’, the supernatural abilities that had scorched the sky. But he had morphed his face into an unrecognizable visage. And once Montague realized, he played along. “The wild folk have come,” said Burton. “Mages carrying deadly spells are murdering everyone in sight and burning homes to the ground. I believe the invaders are influenced and led by a supernatural force. A force so evil, its…

“The Clerk’s Prologue and Tale” is story about a king named Walter who pushes his wife’s loyalty and tests her with a series of terrible wishes. It is through Walter’s actions that the reader is able to examine sovereignty within the marriage of the king and his wife, Griselda. Sovereignty is the state in of having supreme authority over something or someone. A power that Walter has over defenseless Griselda. Griselda “if one should speak… fostered in dire poverty was she, no lust luxurious in…

The first passage I chose was the fifth stanza of Bradstreet’s poem, “The Prologue”. I thought she portrayed a powerful image of how she felt about women’s accomplishments and achievements being overlooked, undermined, and not appreciated by a patriarchal society. The first two lines, “I am obnoxious to each carping tongue, who says my hand a needle better fits” paints her reality that many people deeply believed that women belonged with either a needle or a spoon in one hand and a baby in the…

The prologue “Wife of Bath” was about a woman who had 5 husbands and spoke about the relationships between man and women. The prologue is her speaking about her experience with men and how people reacted to her love life when they found out the amount of husbands she had throughout her lifetime. To the reader it is instantly evident that there were good, missing, and bad entities in the story. In my opinion, I believe she was all three. The reason why I state that she was missing is because,…