Essays on Pilgrims

Religious practices and rituals are the most significant elements which distinguish it from other religions. All monothetic religions acknowledge one supreme being but in different manners and forms. Islam has rituals practices in which the believers must practice obligatory duties to Allah. These duties are...

The Pilgrims endured many troubles, trials, and tribulation in their first year in the new and mysterious land that they were beginning to inhabit. Their hardest time was their first winter in the New World, it came quickly and without warning. The Pilgrims, who had...

‘The General Prologue’ of the infamous Canterbury Tales by English poet and author Geoffrey Chaucer is essentially a rare insight into the reality of those living in middle ages England. In the general prologue, Chaucer presents himself as an objective observer, this gives the reader...

Avarice is the ultimate mechanism for diluting a compassionate man’s generosity, driving him into corrupt practices. These effects of greed are developed through Geoffrey Chaucer’s, The Canterbury Tales, in which he implements various forms of mockery to reveal loss of ethics. Chaucer satirizes human life,...

Geoffrey Chaucer is the well-known poet of 14th century. He depicted all the possible realities of his era through his writing, so he is also known as a realist. He observed the world with a sharp and keen eye. He collected minute details about everything...