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William Langland, 2002.
An analysis of "Piers Ploughman" by William Langland and an anonymous poem from the same era.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, $ 44.95
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This paper will compare an anonymous poem from the same time that William Langland "Pier's Plowman" was written and show how Christian values are sternly represented in both texts. In this manner, we can see how Langland presents a strong moral conviction in his works.
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Deadly Sins in "The Canterbury Tales" & "Piers the Plowman", 2001.
A compare and contrast analysis of "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer & "Piers the Plowman" by William Langland.
919 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 0 sources, $ 32.95
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This paper reviews two medieval books " The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer and "Piers the Plowman" by William Langland and examines how the "Deadly Sins" are presented in the texts. It discusses the portrayal by each author of each of the sins in turn and how both describe a pilgrimage and both try to make people better by depicting virtues and vices. Langland chose to use for this purpose abstract characters while Chaucer on the opposite side used very true to life characters with human faces.
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"Pride is first to confess her "swaggering airs" and to admit that to take "a humble place" would be "something new" for her. Her confession is rather short, but this description of how pride is reflected in people's behavior helps to recognize those guilty of pride in General Prologue. Prioress is supposed to call herself humbly "a sister", "was cleped madame Eglentyne"(121), she sings the services "entuned in hir nose" trying to imitate French in order not to look as a nun but more as a noble lady. Friar is also proud, he prefers to socialize "with frankeleyns over-al in his contree,/ and eek with worthy wommen of the toun" and avoids poor and his fellow beggars."
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"Piers Plowman", 2002.
Examines William Langland's 14th century narrative poem.
4,050 words (approx. 16.2 pages), 18 sources, $ 135.95
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Examines William Langland's 14th Century narrative poem. Social satirical aspects. Critique of society. Motif of the quality of life and faith. Themes of social injustice and spiritual salvation. The historical context and literary history. Ideas and narrative devices of the poem. Medieval influences on the author. Intellectual climate of the Middle Ages.
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"This research examines William Langland's 14th-century extended narrative poem The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman (aka Piers Plowman) as a poetic exercise in social satire. The plan of the research will be to set forth the historical context and literary history surrounding the production of Piers Plowman and then to discuss the pattern of ideas and narrative devices in the text that tend to support the view that it is structured in a way meant to comment on society and the social behavior familiar and important to Langland, namely, a society in which the most important feature of the quality of life was the quality of faith, or the individual's experience of God.
In his anthology of philosophical and theological writings of the 12th to 14th centuries Marenbon says that the study of ..."
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"Piers the Ploughman", 2005.
An examination of William Langland's allegorical work, "Piers the Ploughman."
1,321 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper discusses how the allegory in "Piers the Ploughman" enables ideas to battle with one another as if they were human, and the conflict they produce gives the reader a sense of what was most important to the poet and what was seen as the most important problem of his time, as well as what would be the best solution.
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"Hesiod in ancient Greece made similar observations about the anarchy of his society, suggesting that at some level, society is always on the brink of anarchy for those who hold deep-seated beliefs and who believe that those ideas should shape every action and inform every institution. In Langland's time, those ideas were religious and were given added weight by association with the Church and with God even in times when the Church itself, in the form of its leadership, seems to be failing in its mission. In our own time, the same sort of concerns can be raised, with some sort of authority suggested as the solution to the problem."
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"Piers Plowman", 2002.
An examination of the contrasting cycle of Christian pardon and redemption in William Langland's 14th century theological poem.
1,521 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper examines how, instead of proceeding along a clear plot line, or offering an argument with a logically contrasting structure of ideation, the poem proceeds instead through a series of parallel contrasts between truth and falsehood, good and evil. It explains how this phenomenon occurs internally in the 'Passus' that divide the text.
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"Different figures' successes in securing true pardons or different forms of truth and falsehood are contrasted. The pardons seem similar, yet are revealed to be fundamentally different. This phenomenon of paralleling also occurs holistically across the text. Images that occur across the different sections of 'Passus' are paralleled and contrasted. These contrasts both within and without the 'Passus' cumulate in Passus IIV when the true pardon of the dreamer Piers is contrasted with the false pardons that took place in the "Fields of Folk" of the poem's Prologue."
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