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Coursework on Chaucer
In particular the pardoner's tale. It's so poo. I have literally no ideas apart from widespread speculation the church was corrupt because of the great schism which began in 1378 and themes on life/death/morality from the prologue onto the tale....not enough to knock together 1500 words.
I got a slight criticism on the pardoner and one on Chaucer about his writing of the tale and that's about it.....maybe i could talk about the fabliau?
Anyone know much about this tale? i'm getting so angered with it...
or anyone know of any good critical essays written on it....ANYTHING!!!
1500 IS FUCKING PISH
THAT IS FUCK ALL TO WRITE. YOUR INTO AND CONCLUSION COULD TIE UP A 1,000 WORDS ALONE
maybe if you went to one of your lectures once in a while instead of sleeping in all the time...
i do go to my lectures
I missed two due to illness and that was only 'academic practice' which is bollocks anyway. I haven't missed one poetry and prose lecture which is where i learnt about Chaucer....AND it wouldn't matter if i missed my lectures anyway, because you choose what you do the essay on (as long as it was prescribed in another module) and we did chaucer in the first week for about 20 minutes if that
Fucking hell
Do you ever stop moaning?
It's an English degree: just get on with it.
Have you even been to the library? There will be dozens of essays on it if you look properly. It's a 700 line tale, so by the time you've read it you only need two critical ideas at the most to compare against and you're at 1500 words in no time.
try doing it yourself, maybe then you'll learn for the next 3 years.
First year counts for shit anyway.
i don't want to be a dick here,
but i typically have to write two essays a week, and if they come in at 1500 words i consider them to be short essays.
knocking together a 1500 word essay on the pardoner's tale is a piece of piss, really. i mean, honestly, you're asking if there are any good critical essays on it? seriously? chaucer, as in, the second biggest guy in english literature, and you're asking if there's anything much written about it.
this does not qualify as a challenge. at all.
1500?
I didn't turn up to a single lecture for my english degree last year and I managed to get a 2:1 or something for my coursework by reading half the books I was supposed to, and basing much of the essay on bits I remembered from great expectations in year 11. just waffle, but make sure you give reasons. it doesn't even need to be correct.
Basically do what you did at A level but try to sound a bit more clever about it. Make it more personal. Talk about your own opinions. Do more contextual research. They love that shit.
obviously
i was scoffing at the 1500 word essay. I have to write a 5000 word dissertation-esque critique on islam for one of my modules. In my first year. For January please.
a nice one
yeah i'm not too bothered about the 1500 words, it's just i couldn't really find many ideas, but i guess what i have will do....i can diversify from those ideas a little and give the essay some kind of central theme..
chaucer is a fucking gimp
i did him for A level. i dont think i've ever been less interested in anything ever.
really?
I did chaucer at A level too....the miller's tale, i assume you did that one too being as we're from the same school year (born 3 days apart - fuck yeah ^5) and i found it interesting, hence why i'm doing it now
I had an exam on Chaucer at AS level
I didn't have a fucking clue about any of it, but in the exam we were allowed to take our book in, and there were about 30 pages at the start basically explaining everything. I just paraphrased that and got something like 117/120. Upon asking the rest of my class whether they used the same method, it was apparent that I was the only one who had. Idiots.
yeah it was the exact same for me
I even had a load of pencil notes on the inside of the front cover which i 'forgot' to remove. Not forgetting the comprehensive notes at the back WITH PICTURES!
I did Chaucer a couple of years ago at A level
Did The Miller's tale though. I found it okay, the book I mean, not particularly inspiring. I forgot we were allowed to take the book into the exam, but for some reason I managed to get 100% in that one... It was pretty odd.