Weird Tales

slight that it can be considered completely stray from the plot and theme. This is the case in Brian Helgeland film, A Knight’s Tale. Helgeland adapted Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Knight’s Tale,” one of the poems that make up the volume The “Canterbury Tales”. Not many of the characters from the poem made it into the movie. The only characters that are noticeably in A Knight’s Tale are Arcita, Palamon, and Emily. These characters are represented as William, Count Adhemar, and Jocelyn. The movie is very entertaining

In A Knight’s Tale, William Thatcher is born a poor child with no success coming in his future. To help his son his father makes him the apprentice of a Knight so he could “Change his stars”. Later in William’s life, the Knight dies abruptly and William decides to take his place. Throughout the movie William makes himself a new identity as Ulrich von Liechtenstein. Then, in the end he is Knighted. This movie proves that whatever happens in our lives, the most important thing is that we stay true

Now it is time to decide which tale in The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer, rises above the rest. I stated at the beginning of our journey to Canterbury that I would pick the tale that is “greatest moral teaching and in entertainment value” (17). After intently listening to all of your tales, one stood out from the others. Though many of you told stories that were offensive to other pilgrims on the trip or told stories that had little moral significance, I determined that there is one that

MirrorMask is a fantasy/drama film that was released on September 30th, 2005. This movie was very different from a normal fairy tale. This movie was about a girl named Helena, she worked in a circus with her Mom and Dad and they barely got by financially. Helena didn’t want to work in the circus anymore, she wanted to be ‘normal’ like everybody else. Helena is also an incredible artist, her room was filled with artwork. When she falls asleep one day, she woke up in a magical land that was filled

The Role of women in the Canterbury Tales In the Canterbury Tales Chaucer made his female characters very intricate and made them have personalities much different from the men. The female characters in the Canterbury Tales are very unlike the women of that time and have unique qualities (Mann). Since these female characters are so different, it has been an argument for many years about Chaucer’s take on women and how he perceives them. The way he perceives them can be determined through the way

In the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer clearly established the different groups that society was divided into during the fourteenth century. He had to figure out a way to get all these people of different social classes together, which was the ride to Canterbury. On this ship that was on its way to Canterbury Chaucer was able to bring out the different social classes that were represented by allowing them to tell stories from their points of view whether it be from a lower class citizen all the way up

Have you ever wondered why fairy tales are always in vogue, even with their gory violence, shallow characters and unbelievable storylines? Look closely at them, you can find some sort of wisdom hidden underneath all that magic and drama. So don't fret when your child goes gaga over a perfect princess or takes after a naughty troll. Just help your child decipher the hidden values from such tales. These tales do not have any grey areas - the demarcation between right and wrong is crystal clear, so

Dave McKean is the mastermind of MirrorMask, MirrorMask is a fantasy/drama film that released on September 30th, 2005. This movie was very different from a normal fairy tale, It didn’t have an evil stepmother, an absentee father and not really a prince charming at the end of the film. This story is about a girl named Helena, she worked in a circus with her Mom and Dad and they barely got by financially. Helena didn’t want to work in the circus anymore; she wanted to be ‘normal’ like everybody else

After reading Clever Hans there’s some things I can say about this story. For starters this story involved a lot of repetition. One of the repetition patterns that I noticed was between Hans and her mother. It usually went like this, “Where you off to, Hans?” Hans answers: `To Gretel’s Behave yourself, Hans. ` I will. `Bye, mother.` `Bye, Hans.’ Another pattern I noticed was between Hans and Gretel and their conversation was the same everyday, “Good-day, Gretel.` `Good-day, Hans. Brought me something

The Canterbury tales collection by Geoffrey Chaucer presents varied characters that each one have to tell a tale in their way to Canterbury, those characters belongs to different social, religious classes. In the time of many religious social differences has happened, such as the raise of doubt towards corrupted churches and religion in general, it could be noticed how Chaucer portrays the characters in several different ways, there are the good heroine characters, the low class characters, the holly