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- 1: Mark Twain's Speeches
- ... melt them till they'd run all over that stage. Oh, the fault must have been with me, it is not in the speech at all. PLYMOUTH ROCK AND THE PILGRIMS. ADDRESS AT THE FIRST ANNUAL DINNER, N. E. SOCIETY, PHILADELPHIA, DECEMBER 22, 1881. On calling upon Mr. Clemens to make response, President Rollins said: "This sentiment has been assigned to ... of 1620- the Mayflower tribe, I mean. What do you want to celebrate them for? Your pardon: the gentleman at my left assures me that you are not celebrating the Pilgrims themselves, but the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock on the 22d of December. So you are celebrating their landing. Why, the other pretext was thin enough, but this is thinner than ever; the other ...
- 2: Chaucer
- ... twenty others contain some parts or an individual tale. The work begins with a General Prologue in which the narrator arrives at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, and meets other pilgrims there, whom he describes. In the second part of the General Prologue the inn-keeper proposes that each of the pilgrims tell stories along the road to Canterbury, two each on the way there, two more on the return journey, and that the best story earn the winner a free supper. Since there are some thirty pilgrims, this would have given a collection of well over a hundred tales, but in fact there are only twenty-four tales, and some of these are incomplete. Between tales, ...
- 3: The Truth
- ... the candy coated version of good saintly Englishmen come to a better world and find good neighbors willing to help in their time of need. As the story goes, the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth by “accident” and found the Indians who taught the Pilgrims how to plant and grow food. Because of the Indians generosity, the Pilgrims were able to live through winter. Upon the first harvest following the harsh winter, the Pilgrims and Indians sat down together for a grand Thanksgiving feast. Most of the ...
- 4: Canterbury Tales 2
- ... perform what they believed was God's work. Canterbury was one of many sites that the pilgrim would go to. Geoffrey Chaucer centers his book The Canterbury Tales around the pilgrims on their way to thank St. Thomas of Canterbury for his help in keeping them alive. The pilgrims met at an inn and it is here that the Host proposes that each pilgrim should tell two tales on the pilgrimage to Canterbury and then two on the way back. "Each pilgrim represents a certain part of medieval society." (Mack 1895) The pilgrims sit at the top of their social standings; they are either exceptionally good or very corrupt. The prologue provides the reader with detail descriptions of the pilgrims, and it ...
- 5: Chaucerian Commentary
- ... obsessive tine of every day life. Chaucer s language through out the Canterbury Tales is full of bright and colorful description and often time s outrageous and crude images. The pilgrims tales courted the grotesque and the baser elements found in the dregs of society. The color and tone in which Chaucer uses to bring the pilgrims to life evokes carnival and sideshow like images. These images were not far from the experience of the lower classes, which were not unfamiliar with the hideous and outlandish scenes ... the lone Parson who represents the social Christian disciple. Both of the views, that of the good and devout parson as well as the corrupt characterization of the other religious pilgrims represent two sides of a coin, the ideal and the reality. Chaucer strives to illuminate a startling contradiction between what is expected and what is actually achieved when human ...
- 6: Chaucerian Moral and Social Commentary in the Canterbury Tales
- ... obsessive tine of every day life. Chaucer’s language through out the Canterbury Tales is full of bright and colorful description and often time’s outrageous and crude images. The pilgrims’ tales courted the grotesque and the baser elements found in the dregs of society. The color and tone in which Chaucer uses to bring the pilgrims to life evokes carnival and sideshow like images. These images were not far from the experience of the lower classes, which were not unfamiliar with the hideous and outlandish scenes ... the lone Parson who represents the social Christian disciple. Both of the views, that of the good and devout parson as well as the corrupt characterization of the other religious pilgrims represent two sides of a coin, the ideal and the reality. Chaucer strives to illuminate a startling contradiction between what is expected and what is actually achieved when human ...
- 7: The Canterbury Tales: The Pilgrims
- The Canterbury Tales: The Pilgrims The pilgrims that are depicted by Chaucer, in The Canterbury Tales, represent a wide spectrum of society during the late-medieval time period. Chaucer brings his characters to life by using two ...
- 8: Thanksgiving
- The truth behind the tradition is surprising. Thanksgiving and the Pilgrims seem to go together, but the truth is, the Pilgrims never held an autumnal Thanksgiving feast. However the Pilgrims did have a feast in 1621, after their first harvest, and it is this feast, which people often refer to as "The First Thanksgiving". This feast was never repeated, ...
- 9: New England: A Matter of Perspective
- ... all men would live in peace and harmony, a vision that would not be fulfilled in New England or any of the New World. William Bradford's history of the Pilgrims, in Of Plymouth Plantation, sheds a uniquely different light on life in colonial New England. Bradford's account depicts many hardships that had to be overcome by the Pilgrims, before their ideal land began to take shape. Bradford describes arriving in New England in the late fall as fatal for many of the Pilgrims. The first winter took its toll on the colonists. Forced to live on the boat, many people died of scurvy or starved. When they finally were able to stay ...
- 10: The Pilgrims
- The Pilgrims When the first settlers came, Canada was all wilderness. There were no cities, there were no roads, no malls, no schools, no farms. There was just wilderness, as far as ...
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