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- 4331: Attitudes Toward Marriage in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
- ... how his wife uses her "privetee": An housbonde shal nat been inquisityf Of Goddes pryvetee, nor of his wyf. So he may fynde Goddes foyson there, Of the remenant nedeth nat enquere. (MilPro 3163-6) Stories like the Miller's Tale are still popular today, those which claim that jealousy and infidelity arise from marriages between old men and beautiful young women. The Wife of Bath obviously has a rather carefree ...
- 4332: Gods And Generals
- ... an important segment of United States history. The Civil War shaped history and still affects many today. One can still find the son or daughter of a Civil War veteran, and be amazed with their stories. Bitterness and sores still exist deep in the South, where the war has still not ended in their minds. Gods and Generals help to understand the truth behind the war. There were no bad guys ...
- 4333: Will Computers Control Humans In The Future?
- ... reliance on computers by portraying a futuristic world where computers control humans. One of the images which Asimov describes in the book is that humans might become too dependent on computers. In one of the stories, Profession, Asimov writes about people being educated by computer programs designed to educate effortlessly a person. According to the Profession story people would no longer read books to learn and improve their knowledge. People would ...
- 4334: Grapes Of Wrath
- ... of land which made us think we were rich people, even when we couldn't buy food and were patched.") Steinbeck used the area where he grew up as the setting for many of his stories. He attended Stanford University for a few years. He had to work to pay for his education, and sometimes took off one quarter to pay for the next. (He worked as a clerk in several ...
- 4335: Animal Farm
- ... control, they start acting more like man, and using his habits. At the end the animals watch from outside a window as the pigs have liquor and play cards with the men while they trade stories of how they manage control of the farm. 2. conflict There were a few conflicts, one at the start between man and the animal and then among themselves between Snowball and Napoleon, each of which ...
- 4336: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table: An Epic Hero for Modern Times
- ... and Vanessa Redgrave as Guenevere. Camelot covers the period in Arthur's life from when he meets his future wife Guenevere to the beginning of his siege against Sir Lancelot's castle in France. The short excerpt of Morte d' Arthur tells of how King Arthur abandons his assault on Lancelot to defend Camelot and all of England from Mordred. Because Camelot seems to immediately precede Morte d' Arthur and there ...
- 4337: An Analysis of Why Jimmy Doyle Will Never Succeed in Life Due to His Father
- ... in the book "Dubliners", the main character, Jimmy Doyle will be an unproductive citizen, fooling around with his friends and living off of his father's money for the rest of his life. In this short story he demonstrated that he doesn't realize the value of money, because he has never had to work for it, hence he is too frivolous with it at times. Jimmy also likes to be ...
- 4338: Greenleaf
- ... her house. She was one of the neighbors close by and the wife of her employee, Mr. Greenleaf. Mrs. Greenleaf would spend all of her time doing prayer healing. That is, taking clippings of bad stories out of the paper and burring them in the woods. She would then do some ritual over them. Her husband worked for Mrs. May and was always had to be told more than once to ...
- 4339: An Analysis of "Heart of Darkness"
- An Analysis of "Heart of Darkness" Joseph Conrad, in his long-short story, "Heart of Darkness," tells the tale of two mens' realization of the hidden, dark, evil side of themselves. Marlow, the "second" narrator of the framed narrative, embarked upon a spiritual adventure on which he ...
- 4340: Holdens Shithole
- ... is no peace. This perception of the world does not change significantly through the novel. However as the novel progresses, Holden gradually comes to the realization that he is powerless to change this. During the short period of Holden's life covered in this book, "Holden does succeed in making us perceive that the world is crazy".1 Shortly after Holden leaves Pencey Prep he checks in to the Edmont Hotel ...
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