The Way of a Pilgrim

In the canterbury tales, chaucer encounters pilgrims and they agree to tell chaucer two stories on their travel. Before they start to talk about the stories, chaucer describes the pilgrims in physical detail revealing their inner nature. Three of the pilgrims that chaucer described their inner nature are the Wife of Bath, the Monk, and the Clerk. These specific pilgrims are described in a unique way. He is not just describing the physical features he is describing who they really are. In the…

in the New World, every colony had their own way of practicing religion, established settlements, and how they created a new life. Puritanism, consisting of both Puritans and Pilgrims, was a big group of believers that left the Catholic Church after the Reformation. Although both of these groups originated from the same place, they had many differences between them. The main difference was the time they arrived in America. Robert Browne led the Pilgrims in 1620 on the Mayflower. Since they had…

technique used to store smaller stories with in this bigger narrative, but the way Chaucer framed his tale added uniqueness to the Canterbury tales. Every character had their own distinctive voice and personality. In the beginning of the general prologue, Geoffrey Chaucer the author lays out the story line, for us introducing the main narrative frame. The narrator a pilgrims himself tells us the stories his fellow pilgrim had narrated while travelling Saint Thomas Becket in Canterbury , from…

The Medieval period was a time of firsts, the first Crusade, the first census, the first manifestation of the modern-day perception of knights and kings alike. The fourteenth century was also full of literary firsts, the most predominant being the shift from scholarly reading to a more universal style of tales written in Middle English, introduced by Geoffrey Chaucer, a timelessly renowned poet. The Canterbury Tales, considered the most important literary piece of the Medieval period written in…

In many places in his Inferno, the reason for Dante the poet’s placement of certain souls is murky at best. Nowhere is this problem so compounded as in Canto IV, where Dante the pilgrim meets the souls in Limbo. Dante the poet’s choice of whom to include among the “virtuous pagans” seems inconsistent and his removal of the pre-Christian monotheists from Limbo leaves questions about what it means, in his mind, to believe in God and to live a righteous life by His laws and the rules of the church,…

in order to represent the misconceptions of PTSD. By manipulating the order of events in the life of Billy Pilgrim, Vonnegut provides a much more realistic account of PTSD than any nonfiction novel could.…

often society react to mental illness similar way to crime and the criminals (Marsh et al, 2000 and Pilgrim, 2005). Labelling theory is beneficial to understand the stigma of mental illness. This approach to deviance focuses on the reaction of others in maintaining and amplifying rule breaking or secondary deviance (Marsh et al., 2000). The labelling process can have a detrimental effect on a person's status and identity (Marsh et al., 2000 and Pilgrim, 2005).Their old identity is discarded and…

Is there a way to determine where the truth lays when there are two different perspectives on the same situations? Unfortunately, there is no clear cut answer. In William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation and Thomas Morton’s New English Canaan, there are countless discrepancies between each story. Both men seek to defame one another in order to preserve the innocence of their individual characters. They are not exactly successful in their mission when Morton and Bradford spend time discussing…

For over decades, speculation regarding the tip of the planet has run rampant—all in conjunction with the arrival of the new millennium. Identical was true for our spiritual European counterparts who, before the year 1000, believed the Second Coming of Christ was close, and therefore the thoughts of the end of the world was high. When the apocalypse didn't occur in 1000, it had been determined that the proper year should be 1033, cardinal years from the death of Jesus, then again that year…

were performed on him. Tralfamadorian ideas are only apparent to Pilgrim during the story, because only he can become “stuck” and “unstuck” in time, meaning that he experiences different parts of his life at any given moment. At this point in the book, the transitions between past, present, future, and Tralfamadore become slightly muddled, making it easy to lose track of what is occurring in the story at that time. As Billy Pilgrim becomes “stuck” and “unstuck” in time, the story continues to…