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…and their heart engages), Then people long to go on pilgrimages. (General Prologue, page 3) These are the opening lines with which the narrator begins the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales. The imagery in this opening passage is of spring's renewal…

…Are there many ways that themes and symbols can be shown in stories? Geoffrey Chaucer uses many different themes, symbols and styles in writing all of tales in The Canterbury Tales. By using these things, Geoffrey utilizes several specific symbols…

…Courtly Love in Chaucer and Marie de France In his The Miller's Tale Chaucer presents a side of the courtly love tradition never seen before. His characters are average middle class workers rather than elite nobility. There is an interesting comparison…

…. People often think that natives in Africa are merely primitive forms of civilized people. But, in reality are cultured people and natives really different from each other? In the novel Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad uses the Congo as a metaphor for European…

…The Miller's Tale <Tab/>The Miller's Tale, which proceeds the Knight's Tale, is a story about men in love with the same woman. This tale begins when an astrology student named Nicholas takes up lodging with a wealthy, old carpenter named…

…We are introduced to 'The Heart is a Lonely Hunter' with the characters Spiros Antonapoulos and John Singer. They are the only two deaf-mutes in the town and therefore stick together, living together and spending all their time, except when they're…

…the Pardoner's tale for three reasons. First, she tells all the men exactly what it is that women season. Second, she tells about things of old. Third, she humors us with her words so bold. Of all the beautiful things, women are the most treasured to me. To know what…

…the potential for true goodness. In many literary works the author attempts to exemplify the evil which lies within by showing many characters which have been, or are being overcome by their inner darkness. In the novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad we see how…

…of the city but work in the heart of it. I look forward and try to imagine what T.S. Eliot would think if he saw these city streets. In his book, "the Waste Land," it is forced into our imagination that the world is dead; the earth is a waste land. He calls…

…In "The Miller's Tale" and "The Reeve's Tale" from The Canterbury Tales, two of the characters are easily comparable. Nicholas, from "The Miller's Tale", and John from "The Reeve's Tale", have both common ground as well as some differences in their role…