The Shipman's Tale

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…

This collect was mentioned in The Canterbury Tales by the Wife of Bath in her prologue and it was called “book of wikked wyves” (Chaucer Line 685). Within this collection there are three essays that give antifeminist views from different prospective. First essay is Theophrastus “The Golden Book on…

The Three Little Pigs, the pigs are good and the wolf is evil; good triumphs as always. This appears to be the obvious theme, the character the story is centered around is the hero and he defeats the villain. However, on closer inspection this "fairy tale" motif is unstable due to inconsistencies within the text and the story itself. The Three Little Pigs in its original form doesn 't fit completely with the conventional good and bad unity. One of the main parts of a commonplace good vs. evil…

The calling for gold is actually the hidden calling for Milkman’s hero’s journey “Road of Trial” (Campbell). Milkman’s hero journey started out as a quest looking for gold, but instead he encounters trials that ultimately brought him to a higher stage of mind. On his trip to the Deep South, Milkman encounters “a series of tests, tasks, or ordeal that the person [hero] must undergo to begin the transformation. Often the person fails one or more of these tests” (Campbell). Furthermore, the…

created a time in which Japanese art and literature flourished, and the Japanese court was at its peak. The unified religious practices of the Heian 's and, most importantly, the influential texts and works of literature such as lady Murasaki Shikibu 's tale of Genji, made the Heian period a great and successful golden age. The Heian period was a time in which a civilization not only existed but flourished. It was a peak time for the Japanese aristocratic court. The Government was originally…