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Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale", 2002.
An introduction to and discussion of Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale" from his well-known "Canterbury Tales".
895 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper provides an introduction to "The Knight's Tale". Points of literary analysis are discussed, as well as mention of previous work that may have influenced Chaucer in his writing of this story. Theories of understanding the intended meaning of the story are offered.
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"?The Knight?s Tale? is one of the most memorable in Chaucer?s ?Canterbury Tales". It tells the story of two young knights, Palamon and Arcite, who are imprisoned together in a tower, and both fall in love with the same girl, Emelye. Chaucer wrote it in Middle English, which, unlike Old English, is fairly easy to read and understand by modern readers. For example, at the end of the story, Chaucer has the lines, ?The Firste Moevere of the cause above,/ Whan he first made the faire cheyne of love,/ Greet was th'effect, and heigh was his entente./? For with that faire cheyne of love he bond/ The fyr, the eyr, the water, and the lond/ In certeyn boundes, that they may nat flee? (The Knight's Tale, 2987?2993). They show Emelye why she must marry Palamon, and they are extremely poetic in their talk of ?air, water, and land, and the fair chain of love.? The meaning is not lost, even though the words may look unusual."
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The Knight's and Miller's Tales in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales", 2000.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 2 sources, $ 57.95
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This paper is fairly theoretical but it uses common close reading techniques on both the primary and secondary texts of "The Canterbury Tales" to exam issues of sexuality and class in the Knight's Tale and the Miller's Tale. The Canterbury tales text used was not translated so the quotations are still in Chaucerian English.
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" In, The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, Michel Foucault writes of the seventeenth century as ?the beginning of an age of repression emblematic of what we call the bourgeois societies (17).? Thus placing Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales decidedly before this ?age of repression,? in a time when ?sexual practices had little need of secrecy; words were said without undue reticence, and things were done without too much concealment,? when, ? one had a tolerant familiarity with the illicit (Foucault 3).? With this historical demarcation in mind I would like to consider the erotic triangles dealt with in the first two stories of The Canterbury Tales and how they relate to expressions of a class-conscious male sexuality. To do this I will be drawing heavily on the introduction and first chapter of Eve Sedgwick?s seminal text, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire, for a theoretical and critical base.Specifically I will be looking at the climactic moments of these first two tales (the Knight?s and the Miller?s) to analyze how the problematic erotic triangles are worked out between the two men involved, and comparing the way class difference makes itself apparent."
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The Role of Women in "Knight's Tale", 2002.
An analysis of the role of women and the concept of love in Chaucer's "Knight's Tale".
755 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper introduces Geoffrey Chaucer's "Knight's Tale" and the roles of men, women and love in the story. The concepts are explored through an examination of the characters and story with examples from the text. Chaucer's portrayal of women in his other works is considered.
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"?Knight?s Tale? is a story about two cousins, Arcite and Palamon and their love for the same woman ? the beautiful Emelye ? that leads them finally to battle for her. Both the story and the climax is most representative of the attitudes of the knights in those times to women and love (love was often seen linked to concepts of manhood, chivalry and honor.) Chaucer shows Arcite and Palamon battling (figuratively and literally) to win the hand of Emelye. The tournament is held ?For love and for encrees of chivalrye? (2184).
The fact that Emelye, herself, is portrayed as wishing for maidenhood through her life and to that extent, indifferent to the courtship of both only adds further substantiation to the theory that perhaps Arcite and Palamon were more driven to prove their credentials as virile knights rather than their passion for Emelye."
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Pagan Settings in "The Knight's Tale", 16.
Looks at the impact of the pagan setting on the narrative of Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale".
3,555 words (approx. 14.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 99.95
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Geoffrey Chaucer is a well-known poet of the 14th century who worked for the king as a manager of societal and traditional events. Nonetheless, his poems are rooted with compassionate consideration towards women, the common people, and uniqueness as articulated through multicultural signs signifying states and religious convictions. This paper deals with the impact of pagan settings on the story "The Knight's Tale." To illustrate how fundamental the impact has been, this paper utilizes disjunctive mixtures of the story as its theme.
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"Contemporary readers might consider that a narrative in which so many aspects of a story take place coincidentally is a weakly schemed story, without a doubt. However this is the exact point that Chaucer is attempting to make throughout this story. The functions of "Fortune" do have an accidental and unintentional method of running. How can humans tolerate such an inadequately structured universe? This is one manner of wording the major issue which the poem portrays (Minnis, 1982)."
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"The Knight?s Tale", 2004.
A review of Chaucer's "The Knight?s Tale", focusing on the importance of chivalry.
1,044 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper discusses the importance of chivalry during medieval times. Using the story, "The Knight's Tale" by Chaucer, the writer shows how knights were expected to be chivalrous to women and men alike and of all status levels. The writer dispels the myth that knights were taught to be mighty in military tactics only, but instead emphasizes their social responsibilities, as well. Chivalry is greatly emphasized in the story as the entire plot concentrates on chivalric customs and values, thereby underscoring the significance of chivalry in the making of a true knight.
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"Fair play was thus one of the main characteristics of chivalry but that wasn?t the only one. Apart from fair play and complete adherence to rules, ?principal representative of chivalry espouses a highly idealistic conception of the value of a good name? (Muscatine, 184). It was thus important for the knight to have a good reputation. Thus while bravery and valor were important and so was consideration for enemies, but establishing a good reputation in all manners possible was critical to chivalrous behavior."
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"The Knight's Tale", 2008.
An analysis of the six tenets of the chivalric code for knighthood in "The Knight's Tale" by Geoffrey Chaucer.
810 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 28.95
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The paper examines prowess, truth, honor, freedom, courtesy and glory as tenets of the chivalric code in "The Knight's Tale" by Geoffrey Chaucer. The paper discusses how knights enacted these various traits in their roles as medieval warriors.
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"The basis of Chaucer's view of Chivalry defines way and manner in which knights would defend the honor of a lady by always being courteous and gentle, regardless of the military might a knight may exude. Respect for women is clearly part of the chivalric code through courtesy and honor, which defends the love of a woman through a knight's actions and behaviors. The issue of knightly conflict between Palamon and Alcite occurs when lady Emily arouses both of their desire for love--often called courtly love. Jealousy mounts between the two men, who immediately site vows of honor and truth they took as knights to uphold their love for Emily."
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"The Knight's Tale", 2002.
This paper suggests that the character of the pilgrim telling "The Knight's Tale" is illuminated by telling the story.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 1 source, $ 53.95
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This essay discusses how "The Knight's Tale" illustrates the character of the pilgrim who tells it. The tale is very much a story about a romance of chivalry, and the Knight symbolizes this well.
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Knights in ?The Canterbury Tales?, 2004.
A comparative analysis of the portrayal and use of knights in Geoffrey Chaucer's ?The Canterbury Tales?.
1,046 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper discusses how the narrator in the Prologue of ?The Canterbury Tales? paints a noble view of the Knight as a distinguished man who practiced chivalry, truth, honour, generosity, and courtesy. It looks at how, although the narrator may have an ideal view of the noble Knight, Chaucer has another. Through an analysis of some of the tales, such as "The Knight?s Tale" and "The Miller's Tale", it examines how Chaucer is actually setting the stage for satire.
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"Another knight that appears less than nobles is mentioned in the Wife of Bath?s Tale. In fact, this knight seems to be the opposite of the knight described in the prologue because he actually commits rape. We are told he is a knight ?who was a lusty liver? (300), and despite the maiden?s begging, he ?by very force he took her maidenhood? (300). Clearly, this act violates all of the chivalric codes. This knight is not completely without merit, hot he does keep his word to the old lady when she supplies him with the correct answer to the question that will save his life. As with the knights in the Knight?s Tale, Chaucer is presenting the knights with a combination of noble qualities as well as very human qualities."
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Movie Review: "A Knight's Tale", 2005.
A review of the historical inaccuracies in the movie, "A Knight's Tale".
2,536 words (approx. 10.1 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 76.95
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This paper begins with a plot summary of the movie and then continues with a discussion of the historical accuracies and inaccuracies, using comparisons to Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" and "Medieval Times".
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"The movie "A Knights Tale" has many inaccuracies and very little accurateness. As a movie about a knight in medieval times this movie is certainly out of place. It is unclear whether the director wanted the movie to be this confused about its identity. What is clear is that the director wanted to appeal to younger audiences. He added relatively new rock songs for the soundtrack. Some actors were dressed appropriately for the times and then some were completely out of place. The great writer Geoffrey Chaucer is portrayed as a peasant with a horrible gambling problem. Although there are references to God and the Bible the characters do not have the sort of faith that was practiced during medieval times. Also the main women characters seem to have a lot of freedom. With all of these things combined this movie turns out to look sloppy and un-researched."
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"The Knight's Tale", 2002.
Chivalry and social codes as presented in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales".
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper addresses "The Knight's Tale" from Chaucer's in respect to the characterization of chivalry within the story.
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Love Meant Many Things Back Then, 2001.
This essay discusses Chaucer's "A Knight's Tale" with regards to honor and love in the middle ages.
2,000 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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This paper presents a detailed look at the characteristics of medieval romance and love. The writer discusses the meaning of virtue, piety and honor in reference to medieval love. The writer then takes those characteristics and explores Geoffrey Chaucer?s ?A Knight?s Tale?, to hold the characteristics against the era and see how well it compares.
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"Geoffrey Chaucer is considered one of the finest poets of all time. His "Canterbury Tales" have made the pedestal of classic literature and have never even hinted they would tumble from their height. The tales are a remarkable history recording of the times and mindsets of Chaucer?s era as well as a wonderful story based in its own right. When we take the tales as a whole we are treated to a delightful detailing of the way people acted and felt and reacted during the 1300?s. It is an enlightening overview of the era. However, if we want more than an overview, if we want to examine one aspect of history we can do so by separating the ales into individual stories and examining each one on its own merit."
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Women?s Lack of Agency in Middle English Literature, 2004.
Examines the lack of independence in female characters from Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale" and William Shakespeare's "The Tempest".
948 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 33.95
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One of the most striking aspects of the female protagonists in Shakespeare?s ?The Tempest? and Chaucer?s ?The Knight?s Tale? is their apparent lack of agency, or force of independent will, in the face of male dominance and control. This paper shows that women, as such, do not seem to exist in these tales. In other words, unlike the men of these tales, women do not act as individual people or fully-formed characters, either in the contemporary sense or even in the sense that ?character? or ?psychology? may have existed in their creators? respective ages and places. Rather, women in these texts only serve to act as objects or placeholders. This paper explains how they simply live, textually speaking, to serve and to reinforce male notions of honor and power or act as objects of male transfers of power.
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"Miranda?s only power is her ability to arise pity and wonder in others. When she expressed her opinion about stopping the tempest, her father dismisses her with the query: ?my foot, my tutor?? In other words, he is amazed that something from his body can have its own volition, namely a daughter, who is something lower than himself, a body part that he stands upon like a foot that cannot teach him anything, morally speaking, and can only cement his physical connections to the earth through generating marital alliances. Prospero forces Miranda to go to sleep when he is distracted, again against her own will. (1.1.) Eventually, her alliance with Ferdinand allows her father to return home to his customary place?her function in society as Prospero?s prop and ?foot? has been fulfilled."
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Chaucer?s ?The Wife of Bath?s Tale?, 2002.
A study into the themes of deception and duality in the novel "The Wife of Bath's Tale" by Chaucer.
1,213 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 0 sources, $ 41.95
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The paper examines the characters in "The Wife of Bath's Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer and the themes of deception and duality which are brought about by these characters. The paper shows how Chaucer uses images to accentuate the theme of duality such as the knight and hag, and the ease with which love becomes violence, youth becomes age, ugliness becomes beauty and wrong becomes right.
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"The contrast between youth and age is the second instance of my thesis. he hag and the Wife are past their youth; the knight and Jankyn are young, virile and attractive. A common device of the Middle Ages is the memento mori, the remembrance of the inevitability of death. The skeleton confronts the revelers: ?As I was, so ye are; as I am, so ye shall be.? The hag becomes young and desirable, a transformation which could have been a two-edged sword; she now could be desired by others, and only through trust in her integrity will the knight be able to rest assured that she is his alone."
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The Canterbury Tales, 2002.
This paper introduces, discusses and analyzes the book "The Canterbury Tales," by Geoffrey Chaucer.
750 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 26.95
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This paper compares the ideals of courtly love in the "Knight's Tale" with those in the "Wife of Bath's Tale". The Knight and the Wife of Bath are two very divergent characters, with equally divergent outlooks on love. The paper shows how these two wildly different characters share some ideas of the time in order to fit into their society.
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""The Knight?s Tale" is one of the most memorable in Chaucer?s "Canterbury Tales." It tells the story of two young knights, Palamon and Arcite, who are imprisoned together in a tower, and both fall in love with the same girl, Emelye. "The Knight's Tale" is the first story in Chaucer's book. That he began his story with the tale of this knight gives some weight to what an important role they played in society. Regarding the book, critics often say, "The Knight is often called one of the 'ideal' pilgrims along with the Parson and sometimes the Clerk because unlike the other portraits, Chaucer offers no attack or satire against them" (Lambdin 2)."
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Chaucer and Pity, 2002.
How Chaucer defines pity in the "Canterbury Tales", or an attempt to explicate the line " Pitee renneth soone in gentil herte."
2,785 words (approx. 11.1 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 83.95
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This paper attempts to understand and define the notion of pity, gentility, and nobleness in Chaucer's time as he wrote "The Canterbury Tales". The paper includes several scholarly sources which attempt to explain Chaucer's definition of what his idea of a noble or gentle man is. The paper includes observations from "The Knight's Tale", "The Merchant's Tale", "The Clerk's Tale" and "The Franklins' Tale", and all the sources from Chaucer are taken in Middle English.
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"In his essay "Chaucer and Pite," Douglas Gray records the relevant meanings of pity taken from the NED current to Chaucer's time as: (1) The quality of being pitiful; the disposition to mercy or compassion, clemency, mercy, mildness or tenderness . . . (2) A feeling or emotion of tenderness aroused by the suffering, distress, or misfortune of another, and prompting a desire for its relief; compassion, sympathy . . . (3) a ground or cause for pity . . . and (4) a condition calling for pity (Gray, 179). Pitee is used in various contextual manners in Chaucer's The Knight's Tale, The Merchant's Tale, The Clerk's Tale, and The Franklins' Tale, but each time the word is used, it indicates feeling. Even when the word means grief in The Knight's Tale when the people mourn for Arcite's death- "Allas, the pitee that was ther"- rather than compassion or sympathy as it usually refers to, the word still appeals to feelings since grief involves intense emotions (2833). Like gentilesse, trouthe, or franchise, pitee is an important word for Chaucer since he often employs the word and in a way tries to define its essence through its repetitions."
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