Jape

throughout United States society and even propagated by United States officials. “Among the Allies the Japanese were also known as ‘jackals’ or ‘monkey-men’ or ‘sub-humans’...Personnel of the United States Marine Corps sought to popularize the term Japes (Japs + apes)” (Typecasting pg. 117). This double standard in societal treatment further emphasises the distinct racial bias against the Japanese compared to Anglo-Europeans in America. By dehumanizing the Japanese and instilling fear in the minds

tragic death. In the prologue, the Pardoner showed his true characteristic of greed instead of helping others: “By this gaude have I wonne, yeer by yeer, an hundred mark sith I was pardoner…I preche so as ye han herd bifore, and telle an hundred false japes more” (line 101-106). Then later in the poem when he found gold with two pilgrims, he secretly planned with one of two pilgrims to kill the other, so they can have more share of gold for themselves: “…if I can shape it so that it departed

cotton plugs in his nostrils resembling the dead. He is verbally expressed to have a skull for a face, and long boney fingers with a deep nasally voice. Baron Samedi is kenned for being disruptive, utilizing obscene language, and making infelicitous japes. He dotes rum and tobacco, which can be utilized as offerings to call upon him, along with many of his favorite foods. Baron Samedi is called upon when in desideratum of rejuvenating, near, or approaching death, tis only the Baron who can accept a

It’s just a few minutes before lunch, the class sitting in the portable, finger tapping on the wood with great anticipation for the call to the savage room of eating. A few of the teacher’s pupils are playing on their phones, while others are having conversation (which was to be kept quiet, according to the teacher grading test papers, the clicks of his pen out of rhythm with the drumming digits of his class). Bored, one boy takes the ever infamous “selfie”. “Dude,” a classmate next to him speaks

Dramatic irony is generally defined as irony in which a character kens less about his or her situation than the reader kens, engendering situations that have a different outcome from the character’s prospects. It is as if we are visually examining a train moving relentlessly toward a brick wall, which one or more characters perceive as an open tunnel. A wreck is the only outcome. Poe establishes the framework of dramatic irony as early as the story’s second paragraph, engendering a web of erroneous

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

leader, “You haven’t wakened me - I have wept through the nights, you must know that, groping, laboring over many paths of thought” (Sophocles, ) is revealed to be a different person when his position as the king is threatened. He resolves to cruel japes on the prophet and his blindness, “Blind lost in the night, endless night that nursed you! You can’t hurt me or anyone else who sees the light - you can never touch me”. Blinded by his pride and want to keep the throne that he considers his own, Oedipus

the church. The Pardoner was foul because it is written, “And with these relics, when he had to hand some poor parson living on the land, in one day he gathered in more money than the parson in a month of Sundays. And thus with feigned flattery, his japes made people and the parson his apes.”() He only cared about money and not about people or God in the slightest. Although, “He was in church a noble ecclesiast” because “He read a lesson well or a story” he only “sang an Offertory for well he knew,

buy forgiveness. “By this fraud have I won me, year by year, a hundred marks, since I’ve been pardoner I stand up like a scholar in pulpit, and when the ignorant people all do sit, I preach as you have heard me say before, and tell a hundred false japes, less or more. For my intent is only pence to win and not at all for punishment of sin” (Chaucer 76). The Pardoner reveals to the group that even though he works for the Church, he loves money, including living a good life at the expense of others

The author Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the book “ The Pardoner’s Tale” and also other story. I chose to write about the pardoner’s tale because its about the danger of money and being greedy in the old days. In the medieval time, people tell story about the Lord and Knight and pilgrimage was very important in the midieveal time. Pardoner went on the pilgrimage and preaches about the lord and the 7 deadliest sin which is pride, avarice (greed), lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth to those poor