Sunday, October 19, 2008
Argumentative Paragraph
The Knight's Tale and The Miller's Tale are both provincial love stories, but the happenings in the story are very different. Both of the stories contain illicit relationships, but each story contains a very different type of love. Both stories contain, a woman, beautiful and young. But the loves in each of the stories are very different. In the knight's tale, the love is an instant affinity that two men have for one unmarried woman. In the Miller's tale, the love is not found until after a short time and is hard to come by because the woman being loved is married. It is very possible the the love in the Miller's tale is not true love, just a love of passion, as is concured from this statement (Chaucer, lines 94-95) "O darling, love me, love me now. Or shall i die, and pray that God me save!" So the thought that I obtain from this is that the stories are similar in nature, but are very different in seriousness and one has to be taken more seriously than the other.
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-Good topic sentence to introduce main idea; I guess look at the word choice of "happenings" in the context of the sentence.
-Combine sentence starting with "But" with the previous one
-Since you're comparing and contrasting, maybe use transition contrast word such "however" or "contrarily" etc.
-Good analysis of the two stories as far as the contrasting and complimenting features
-Excellent use of a quotation to prove your point; just remember to use the "/" indicate the break in line.
-Good wrap up sentence- why is the Knight's Tale to be taken in a more serious view- flesh that idea out in the end
-Nice incorporation of vocabularay words and delayed adjectives
Grade: 24/25
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