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…companions. In the prologue of the tales, Chaucer tells us that the Knight has such courage, and yet doesn't flaunt his position, nor think himself any better than anyone else. Chaucer seems to envy the Knight, and uses him to represent everything that is right…

…life. What this passage tells me about Christianity is that it is no more than faith. "I tell you, then, that you will be able to enter the Kingdom of heaven only if you are more faithful than the teachers of the Law and the Pharisees in doing what God…

…-to-answer sociological questions raised in Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale. In this thought-provoking work, two societies with completely opposing ideologies and concepts of freedom are juxtaposed as an attempt to answer these same questions…

…In the novel A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, the characters created contribute to the plot revolving around the French Revolution. Each character portrays a role that ultimately intertwines with the plot. Dickens does a very good job…

…Classic Tales of Tom Sawyer         Grudgingly going through the motions of reading page after page of a book while pretending to be interested is not a pleasurable way to spend time. Reading a book with a weak plot, dull setting, and lifeless…

…"Cinderella" is perhaps the most recognized fairy tale in history, one of the few that spans across generations and cultures. Every prominent culture in the world tells some similar version of this story of a poor girl going from rags to riches; over…

…The Handmaid's Tale, a dystopian futuristic novel by Margaret Atwood recounts the story of a totalitarian state, Gilead, which endorses the dehumanization of women with the excuse of effacing all scurrilous events and resolving a catastrophic problem…

…, with breezing winds, I felt like every single line of poem melted into my body. Especially whenever my grandmother read a line about the image of nature, I felt the connection between the nature in "the Tale of Kieu" and Kieu's Life. Nguyen Du employs the description…

…and we understand that person better. Without light in Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, we would not be able to see the true form of the main characters and would not know what makes them who they are. Each theme has a different meaning to each character…

…and possible death when you are operating heavy machinery (such as driving a car.) Other serious side effects may include hepatitis, cirrhosis, strokes, cardiomyopathy, heart disease, confusion, sleeplessness, depression, and terrifying hallucinations…