The Canterbury Tales: Shipman VS. Franklin It’s nearing the end of the pilgrimage. The Host has narrowed the contest down to two stories, The Shipman’s Tale and The Franklin’s Tale. Suspense is in the air, who will win? The Canterbury Tales is about a diverse group of people who embarked on an adventure to visit the shrine of Thomas a’Beckett. Along the way, The Host came up with the brilliant idea of commencing a storytelling contest. The contest consisted of the following regulations: each contestant
Bobby I want to tell you about a cat named Bobby; he's a good friend of mine. Bobby has a black, brown, gray, and white pattern on his fur that makes him look just like a cuddly teddy bear, that you just want to put your arms around. While researching, I learned that he is a marble Bengal tabby cat. Bobby has enormous paws the size of Oreo cookies, and his nose looks like a furry heart. In fact, it is his appearance that makes you just want to go up to and nuzzle. He is very talented. He can stretch
In the beginning of the story, the narrator feels very uncomfortable knowing that he will soon have to accommodate a visitor, But not just any Visitor, Robert her blind friend. The Narrator and his wife were discussing the fact that she had invited Robert to visit. She worked for Robert ten years ago. Although, the Narrator agreed to the visit, he still expressed how it felt to know that his wife had shared intimate details about herself and the people in her life. These facts made the narrator
Counting on others for one’s own well-being, is that a mistake? Or is just an act of over trust? The Yellow Wallpaper is the struggle of a women feeling as if she is losing her mind. An overbearing and controlling husband makes every effort to try and “fix” his wife to make her better, even if that means confining her to a single room. Despite the husbands best efforts he cannot take away the thoughts and images in his wife’s head. Too much trust is put into the husbands hands, to leave the wife
second main character, Elaine, faces abstinence with opposite effects. Instead of gaining intelligence, she begins to lose it until she cannot focus on anything. Looking at the evidence in the episode, it is clear to see that the abstinence played a limited role in the increased and decreased intellect. As George and Elaine were stimulated by knowledge while abstinent, it was George who grew more intelligent because he was being stimulated by knowledge he already had while Elaine faced new information
It is Sunday morning, and the noise of hundreds of people walking around the cathedral is heard around the square. The cathedral is magnificent, it rises around two hundred feet in the air with menacing gargoyles and marvelous stained glass windows. Cathedrals are mainly used as a divine symbol, but in Raymond Carver’s short story “Cathedral” he uses the cathedral to represent the relationship between the narrator and his wife. In his story Carver shows that the narrator is a very jealous and
Does a morally sound tale become less morally sound based on the teller’s morals? A tale is a tale, and to base a story’s morals off of the teller rather than the message is absurd. This is why The Pardoner’s Tale should win The Host’s contest in the Canterbury Tales over The Wife of Bath’s Tale. When choosing a winner between these two tales, one must first consider the rules on the contest. The Host set the rules that the story must be morally sound, yet entertaining. The tales of the Wife of Bath
Throughout time, artists have been incorporating hidden messages and meanings in their work. Many of these messages and symbols, when put together, are able to tell the story of what is happening in the scene. In Jan Van Eyck’s painting, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife, there are many hidden symbols and cryptic messages waiting to be discovered. At first glance, the reader may overlook or not even find any of the symbols or fail to connect small background objects to the main focus of the painting
At some point in everybody’s life they feel the sorrow and anguish of losing somebody. The the stories “Nashville Gone to Ashes” and “When It’s Human Instead of When It’s Dog”, both a widow and widower are not able to move on with their life after the loss of their loved one. In both cases the mister and the widow both come to the conclusion that their significant other is not coming back leading them to find ways to cope with their deaths, move on and function the best they can with their lives
The Yorkshire Terrier is described to have personality. He is active, very overprotective, curious, and fond of attention. He is easily trained and learns quickly. He thrives on the love and affection of their owners, which is easily done because of their adorable stature and cute looks. The normal yorkie weighs seven pounds, but the small dog can reach up to fifteen pounds. The yorkie is the seventh most popular dog in America, according to the American Kennel Club, and it only takes one glance
Impossible Journey The trip to Florida over Christmas break was unlike any other. Yes, most people would jump at the opportunity to go to Florida after a winter like we had up to that point. So, let me give you some background on why the trip. Back in July my mother in-law had an epileptic seizure that rendered her in a coma, she has not awoken from and the doctors are pushing to let her go. She has been moved 3 hours from my brother in-laws house to Georgia. Thanks to our lovely health care
Cathedral “I wasn’t enthusiastic about his visit. He was no one I knew. And his being blind bothered me” (99) the narrator tells us in Raymond Carver’s Cathedral. An old friend of the narrator’s wife, Robert, is coming to visit them at their home. The narrator is not at all pleased with this situation and lets us know it from the beginning. Throughout the story, the narrator begins to see the blind man in a different light and his mind-set begins to change to admiration. The narrator seems
The story of Cathedral, by Raymond Carver, shows that you do not have to see someone or something in order to appreciate them for who or what they are. It is about a husband, the narrator, and his wife who live in a house. The wife, whose name they do not mention, has a very close friend who is blind. His name is Robert. Robert's wife dies, and comes to their house to spend a couple of days with the narrator and his wife. The narrator, whose name they do not mention as well, is always on edge because
its cast of unstererotypical characters. The main characters refereed to as the "Fab Four", consist of Jerry Seinfeld, Elaine Benes, George Costanza and Cosmo Kramer. Jerry Seinfeld, known by his own name on the program, is the central figure of the sitcom and the catalyst for almost everything that happens. He is involved in the antics revolving around Kramer, George and Elaine. On one episode George, Kramer and Jerry are spying on the naked lady across the street all day to see who can win a bet
Costanza present the presence of the members of the Silent or GI generation. Throughout the television series we have seen the elderly as stereotypically helpless individuals with little or no purpose. The character’s Jerry Seinfeld, George Costanza, Elaine Benes, and Cosmo Kramer, represent the Generation X culture. These half-witted characters are often unreliable and uncaring about the society they live in. These characters often care about nothing more about life outside their own. The stereotype of
A Show About Nothing In the artcle, “Is Seinfeld the Best Comedy Ever?”, author Jay McInerney agrees with Seinfeld the best comedy on television. Seinfeld is a real life show. The behaviors of Jerry, Kramer, George and Elaine, the failed communication, and the everyday embassassment represent “nothingness” but a peculiar everyday life. These “nothingnesses” happen to all of us, but when it is put on TV, people will laugh at these. Besides, the author appreciates the fact that Seinfeld is a New York
Elaine Tyler May’s Homeward Bound Elaine Tyler May's Homeward Bound weaves two traditional narratives of the fifties -- suburban domesticity and rampant anticommunism -- into one compelling historical argument. Aiming to ascertain why, unlike both their parents and children, postwar Americans turned to marriage and parenthood with such enthusiasm and commitment, May discovers that cold war ideology and the domestic revival [were] two sides of the same coin: postwar Americans' intense need to
English department. "What would your dream course be?" she asked. "My dream course," the candidate responded, "would be theory and nontheory." "What's nontheory?" asked a committee member. "You know," the candidate replied. "Poems, stories, plays."...Elaine Showwalter, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University A very short introduction: "When Aretha Franklin sings 'You make me feel like a natural woman,' she seems happy to be confirmed in a 'natural' sexuality identity, prior to culture, by a man's
suspense, and horror story are revealed. The plot will be discussed, for easier comprehension of the story. This plot begins when Bruce , an 18 year old high school boy was at a bar with his best friend Raymond, and a few other friends named Ed, and Elaine. Unfortunately, Bruce got intoxicated, but still decided to drive the others home from the bar. On the way home, Bruce began arguing with Ray, (the only sober one), and the car was steered of the road into a tree. Raymond was killed by the accident
adaptations from novel to television series has not affected the presence of this character, more than a hundred years after the publication of Dracula in 1897. What also unites the novel and the series is their fin-de-siècle resonance. According to Elaine Showalter, sexually and socially subversive themes feature strongly in periods of cultural insecurity. In addition to the century that separates Buffy from the Count, there has been a plethora of vampire movies and books of various merits. As a result