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Mock Epic Chaunticleer Life
405 wordsThe Nuns Priests Tale is a brilliant piece of comedy that pokes fun at human nature. The Priest tells of conceited cock, Chaunticleer, and the love of his life, Pertelote. This tale adheres to the mock-epic form, satirizing mans view of heroism by telling it through the eyes of beasts. As to how this tale is mock-heroic, one first shall consider the means through which it is told-a rooster. When rooster personifies the characteristics of a conventional hero, it shouldnt be simply perceived as si...
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Three Hundred One Day
1,238 wordsSteven Press fields The Gates of Fire is set in the fifth century B. C. in Greece. The story revolves around the famous battle of Thermopylae where three hundred Spartans held off hundreds of thousands of Persians, saving Greece. Press field creates a fictional story around the battle where one man, a squire named Xeones, survives to tell the Spartan story of the battle and the events preceding it. Xeones, who is the protagonist, tells his life story to the royal Persian historian while in capti...
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Samuel Mockbee And His Artworks
1,415 wordsSamuel Mockbee and his Artworks "The professional challenge, whether one is an architect in the rural American South or elsewhere in the world, is how to avoid being so stunned by the power of modern technology and economic affluence that one does not lose sight of the fact that people and place matter... were the powerful words of Samuel Mockbee, who became a great professor in the rural Alabama region. A renowned architect and a great artist, Mockbee dedicated most of his life in the south and...
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Canterbury Tales Chaucer Describes
787 wordsCanterbury Tales Chaunticleer- In the book Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer, gives us a stunning tale about a rooster named Chaunticleer. Chaunticleer, who is the King of his domain in his farmland kingdom. Like a King, he quotes passages from intellectuals, dreams vivid dreams, has a libido that runs like a bat out of hell, and is described as a very elegant looking Rooster. He has every characteristic of a person belonging to the upper class. Chaucer's hidden meanings and ideas make us think...
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Elizabeth Bishop Jesus Christ
1,117 wordsThroughout history, poets have existed to create works that spark emotions from their readers. One poet in particular, who virtually mastered this technique, was Elizabeth Bishop. Born in 1911, Bishop grew to be a well-known poet. Her works gained national attention, and her writing style brought her fame. Elizabeth Bishop was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1911. She began her young life in New England, and later moved to Nova Scotia in Canada after her father died and her mother was commit...
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Sewn Up In A Sack Son Father
552 wordsIn the time of the Romans, the punishment for patricide was to be sewn up in a sack that had a monkey, snake, rooster, and dog inside, and then to be thrown in a river. Each of the animals in the bag had some specific meaning to them, and being sewn up in a sack and tossed into the river also had a specific function to the murderer. Thus this punishment became the proper way to punish the guilty. In the Roman era, patricide had become a major problem, so it was decided that for whomever held a t...
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Contemporary Literary Criticism Larger Than Life
2,712 wordsMyth versus Realism in the Old West LONESOME DOVE While Larry McMurtry honors certain mythical features of the Old West, his epic, Lonesome Dove, is the quintessential representation of the realism of the Old West. By contrast, mythic representations of the Old West tend to look absurd and silly. Stories such as the one portrayed in the film True Grit appear to be ridiculous because of their one-dimensional presentation of characters, including women; their passive, utopian environments; and the...
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Contemporary Literary Criticism Personal Interview
2,790 words" Old West" LONESOME DOVE While Larry McMurtry honors certain mythical features of the " Old West, " his epic, Lonesome Dove, is the quintessential representation of the realism of the " Old West. " By contrast, mythic representations of the " Old West" tend to look absurd and silly. Stories such as the one portrayed in the film " True Grit" appear to be ridiculous because of their one-dimensional presentation of characters, including women; thei...
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