Chaucer’s Life & Works : An 8 page paper analyzing the
characteristics of this fourteenth-century author, using a
combination of historical records and an intuitive reading of
his most well-known books. Bibliography lists nine sources.
Chaucer.wps

Chaucer's "Book of the Duchesse" : A 7 page paper that
discusses the chess game (Lines 618-678) and chess
symbolism in this poem. This paper focus on the themes of
fate, courtly love and steadfastness that are developed
through the poem utilizing chess symbolism, and
demonstrates that the knights comments regarding the chess
game are developed as statements about courtly love and
fate. Bibliography lists 4 sources. Duchesse.wps

Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" / Character Creation and
Credibility : An 8 page paper on Chaucer's use of language
to create credibility and character development. The writer
details this through examples from each of five of the
pilgrim's stories in Canterbury Tales. Bibliography cites
5 sources. Chaucercc.wps

Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" / Corruption In The Catholic
Church : A 6 page paper that describes corruption in the
religious base of the time. The writer argues that Chaucer
intended to show his characters as ironic figures-- ones who
illustrate greed and dishonesty despite their social status. The
Prioress, the Nun, the Monk and the Pardoner are religious
figures in Chaucer's work, and by creating ironies between
their characterizations and their duties, Chaucer expresses
this corruption. Bibliography lists 5 sources. Chaucer2.wps

Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” / Evil In The Tales :
A 12 page paper examining the importance of the ability to
recognize evil in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, specifically
The Prioress’ Tale and The Pardoner’s Tale. The paper
argues first that anti-Semitism is a significant issue in the
Prioress’ Tale, and that her anti-Semitism is just as
dangerous as the amoral avarice of the Pardoner because of
the fact that she is not perceived as evil at all. Bibliography
lists 7 sources. Cantevil.wps

Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” / Order & Disorder In The
General Prologue : A 5 page paper showing how Chaucer
illustrates the themes of spiritual order and disorder in the
first section of the Canterbury Tales. The paper concludes
that this tension between human disorder and spiritual order
resolves itself in the recognition that God’s plan is worked
out in each human being. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Orderd.wps

Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” / Character Of The 
Prioresse : A 5 page essay which analyzes the description of 
the Prioresse given by Geoffrey Chaucer in the General 
Prologue to his historic work The Canterbury Tales. The writer 
argues that the Prioresse is hypocritical about her love of 
earthly pleasures while the Wife of Bath is open and honest.
Prioress.wps

Religion and Chaucer’s Wife of Bath : A six page look at
this larger-than-life character from Geoffrey Chaucer’s
“Canterbury Tales,” in terms of her unorthodox views on
religion. The paper holds that the Wife’s theology is of this
world as opposed to the next, earthly as opposed to celestial,
material as opposed to spiritual. It is not the
officially-sanctioned faith of the late middle ages, and yet,
Chaucer implies, it is shared by more people than the Church
would care to think. No additional sources. KBwife.wps
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