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    The Canterbury Tales provides an array of tales, specifically two tales in which one better provides the most meaning and delight compared to the other. “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale” represents the view and desires of women during that time period. “The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale” describes the type of person the Pardoner is along with how money can be evil. In The Canterbury Tales, “The Pardoner’s Tale”, provides the most moral meaning compared to “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” by stating that

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    The Tale Of Fairy Tales

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    Introduction ‘Once upon a time’ is perhaps days when it was one of our hobbies to read fairy tales as a part of our daily routine. These fairy tales took us to the world of fantasy, happiness, sorrow, dilemma and we had the very tendency to fantasise these characters to be real. These tales had a happy conclusion where good inevitably wins over the evil with a happy ending; and ending lines mostly happened to be ‘and they happily lived ever after’. These endings justified the human sense of justice

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    The Tale Of The Fairy Tales

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    As we grow up, we hear fairy tales and we read them into our lives. Every word and every image is imprinted into our minds. The fairy tales we read are never abandoned. They grow with us and our dreams become molds of the many morals and happily ever afters fairy tales display. We tell children fairy tales when they go to sleep and they read them in school and we even have them watch Disney adaptions that reinforce them further. Generally, they were everywhere while we grew up and they continue to

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    all share a different idea of how the tales in the canterbury tales were written. They all have different arguments on how the ordering and the editing of the tales were. Some of them Along with that they also argue about the manuscripts and the order that the manuscripts can be in due not knowing dates on when it was written. Furthermore, they also introduce the idea of having discussions of the tales because they don’t just want their audience to read the tales, but they also want hear assumptions

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    “The Pardoner’s Tale” and “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” differ in many ways with their themes. The Pardoner’s Tale focuses on greed while The Wife of Bath’s Tale is focused on women’s dominance. The Pardoner’s Tale relates the perils of guilt, while the Wife of Bath’s tale conveys the theme of power, In Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, both the Wife of Bath's story and the Pardoner's story are stories that present us with a decent exceptional message. The good in The Wife of Bath's story is that genuine

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    Fairy Tale Fairy Tales

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    Fairy tales are something that everyone has read or seen, they all seem to have important lessons at the end of each one to teach young children some of the lessons they need for life. These fairy tales when we were younger all seemed innocent and something we all hoped that would happen to us. Little did we know as we got older that the fairy tales we all knew and loved when we were younger, weren't as innocent as they seemed. The fairy tales we all read when we were young seemed so innocent but

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    In Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, there are various tales with the main purpose of telling a moral story and having something amusing about them. Chaucer created this work composed of many tales with perspectives of different types of people. These tales are told as the pilgrims goes on a pilgrimage to Canterbury. Although out of the thirty pilgrims,“The Manciple’s Tale” and “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” are two well thought out and honorable tales, but “The Pardoner’s Tale” evaluates the most moral lesson

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    we are like the greek gods and goddesses. They are often jealous of one another and fight with each other over foolish things like today people will fight over foolish things and share some jealousy. Although people may disagree with tales sharing similarities, tales like “The Apple Of Discord” still connect with our actions, choices, and feelings in today’s world. The Poem “Apple of Discord” by Kate Hovey, is about the goddess of discord, Eris. Eris is angry at the gods and other goddesses because

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    In the late 1300s Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales, a story which follows the religious journey of twenty-nine people, who represent many aspects of Medieval society, to the Canterbury Cathedral in southeast England. While on the pilgrimage the host of the tavern, where all the pilgrims meet, suggests that the pilgrims each tell a story for the group’s entertainment. Chaucer intended for all the voyagers to tell two stories, but he unfortunately died before he could finish the book and

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    Fairy tales have been told throughout time ever since gathering of people there’s been demand for telling stories to an audience. What started out as oral tales eventually evolved into written fairy tales. People now began to write stories for the young children that would teach them important life lessons that would be of major importance to them in the years to come. These lessons that were introduced into fairytales played an important role in the development of their unshaped minds because

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