The Knight's Tale

The Relationship between the Three Interconnected Texts. The two tales; Perrault’s tale of The Beauty of the Sleeping Wood and the Grimm Brothers’ Little Briar-Rose are two versions of the same tale of the sleeping beauty. The Russians National Ballet Theatre’s The Sleeping Beauty was composed based on the version of the Charles Perrault's tales. The versions listed above in respect to the sleeping beauty keep the literal meaning of the text while maintaining oral tradition while…

Is Everyone Ready for Fun, this book illustrates for children. In this book, all the characters were a cartoon. They all looks like they were drawn by color pencil. A writer of this book is Jan Thomas. Also, the writer focusing on helping the children to teach the physical activities like jumping, dancing, wiggling, and taking naps. The book tells that the rowdy cows come to the chicken house, and they start doing those activities. Jumping, dancing, and wiggling done by cows make chicken fell…

a fairy tale such as “The Little Mermaid” and “Beauty and the Beast” before they went to sleep. Fairy tales have a huge importance to society and children because several of them were made into movies and fairy tales can be derived from folklore, ancient poetry, or medieval European literature. Also, many fairy tales have several morals in them while others relate back to valuable life lessons for people. With morals and many children and adults reading them for a long time, fairy tales have…

In the book The Uses of Enchantment by Bruno Bettelheim, he writes about how stories such as fairytales help children endure with complications that they are going through in their lives. Bruno was known as one of the greatest child psychiatrist. There have been studies that show that things such as music and laughter can help us when we are stressed. Even painting, photography, and dance are other forms of art that can help us get through difficult times. Art can bless us in so many…

An inspiration, selfless, honourable; few pilgrims can be described using these words. This pilgrim in The Canterbury Tales is a pilgrim to aspire to be like. The squire is a true knight who is an inspiration to others, a contributing member of society, and one who cares for his lady. To illustrate, the squire is “a cadet, a lad of fire,” he’s passionate and it shows. More specifically, he follows his duty as a squire and goes into battle when ordered, and he is one of the most important…

Insight into Human Nature in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales The trip of all trips that was told from generation to generation is one that was not actually taken but we are inspired by the personal voyage of Chaucer himself. Geoffrey Chaucer wrote about this “trip” to bring attention to peoples beliefs. The variety of characters allow us to see how people came about their views and the different ways they went about practicing them. Chaucer tried to have at least one character that…

best known for writing The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories, written in middle English at the end of the 14th century, at the end of the Hundreds war. One of the best tales is "The Pardoner's Tale." Geoffrey Chaucer is the first poet to be buried in Poets corner of Westminster Abbey. Though Chaucer died more than 600 years ago, he has more than 2,100 fans on Facebook. Also he had a part time job collecting scrap metal. A summary of "The Pardoner's Tale" is That there is three drinking…

Control, and the need to subjugate individuals is at the heart of dystopian literature. Naturally, as a result of this control and constant oppression, rebellion is evident. Gileadean society runs on a strict social hierarchy in which only those at the top are given rights and freedoms such as being able to read and write. As is known, in any society there will be weak links and there will be rebellion. We see this prominently when Offred and the Commander have their first evening together. As…

women by men remains to be a perpetually timeless topic in literature and discussion. The history of women, as a group, is a dark one and the only one that continues to persist in every civilization. Similarly, Margaret Atwood’s novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, exhibits how the oppression of women exists in a society when women are valued only for their functionality, when there is a difference in rights for men and women, and when a society holds very strong conservative principles. The author’s…

Upon first glance the princess bride may seem like just another “hero-saves-the-girl-and-helps-all-his-friends-achieve-their-goals” type of story, which it is. However what the book and movie both accomplish is to recognize the irony in itself. The book is basically a “Book within a book” and the movie is “A book within a movie”. Both of them achieve their goal in showing this. The book starts with a boy being read a book, his grandfather stops reading because he sees that his grandson is…