The Friar's Tale

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…

The Enchanted: A Love Story of Collision in Society Leading to Stereotype Enchanted (2007) is a Disney production depicts the collision of two worlds: the animated and the real world. The poster shows magical creatures roaming the streets of a modern city. Fog and glittering lights showed in the background and a witch looks down on the city from above as if she is gazing into a crystal ball (the moon). In the middle of all this wizardry, there is another collision: a love triangle. There are two…

The Aunts of Gilead use specific word choices to suppress viewpoints that contradict their own. For instance, they believe that casual sex is an abomination, so when teaching the handmaids, Aunt Lydia insists, “A thing is valued … only if it is rare and hard to get. We want you to be valued girls” (Atwood 114). Aunt Lydia uses a specific word, “valued,” to generate certain emotion in her audience. Unlike some of its synonyms, such as “useful” or “of service,” the word “valued” creates a desire…

The Tale of a Modern Fairy Tale In Emma Donoghue’s The Tale of the Shoe, the classic Cinderella tale gets put under the microscope; the author tests the way the reader views the classic fairy tale. Donoghue challenges and dismantles perhaps overused fairy tale archetypes by using vivid imagery, figurative language, and specific word choices throughout the work. By retelling the Cinderella story in this manner, Donoghue is able to force the reader to be critical of fairy tales and create a fresh…

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is the documentation of 29 different people going on a pilgrimage. It shows the changing medieval society-taking place in England and the people coming on this journey come from all different types of shire’s and social classes. They are travelling from London to Canterbury for a spiritual journey that will bring people closer to the divine spirit and help them evolve into better people. Harry Bailey who is hosting tells the guest’s that in order to…

resulted from the steady gaze of the common man upon the corrupt and avaricious clergy. The Canterbury Tales may be Chaucer’s most renowned work due to his efforts to display the idiosyncrasies and hypocrisies of each person he encountered on his way to Canterbury for his pilgrimage, as well as his attempts…

The Handmaid’s Tale confronts Margaret Atwood’s vision of men and women in a controlling light that may infer the way our society would translate in a dystopia. I focus primarily on how the The Handmaid’s Tale depicts a male’s ownership over a female, a male’s undisputed power over women in this particular dystopia, and how that translates to our society today. I will be presenting this depiction in two specific scenes in which the power distribution is obviously in favor of the male figure…

In Disney’s adaption of The Princess and the Frog several different components can be identified from the chosen passage. According to the character’s spoken dialogue, determination and persistence are the two prominent themes we can see right away. The first lines we can see that the main character might have been criticized for being strange or below the normal status quo although she throws caution to the wind and remains truthful to herself and in her beliefs. “Trials and tribulations, I’ve…

rekindles our love and belief in fairy-tale by astonishing us the phenomenal play titled The Secret in the wings by Mary Zimmerman. With the amazing direction by Christine Mary Dunford, the secret in the wings brings stories of love, life and fantasy alive on stage. Everyone at some point in their life have had deep believe in fairy tales, some still hold on to them, I should know because I’m one of them. Although one grows and realizes that those fairy tales were made-up stories, we can still…

One of the oldest forms of story telling was the oral story of the magical fairy tales. These tales were not just for children but also for the community to gather and take their imagination to different places. However, this magical land greatly expanded after the invention of the printing press, which led to massive amounts of fairy tale literature to be mass-produced, eliminating fairy tales the way Charles Parrault and the Grims brothers in tended their stories to be told. One story that has…