Instruction
it is a final exam , I need it in ONE HOUR please.
you have to Choose one question from the following and respond in 200-500 words. Please cite from your Norton Anthology in order to support your argument.
1) Compare and contrast the knights in Chaucers Canterbury Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Perceval. How are notions of knighthood and chivalry defined in these texts? Cite passages from each work in order to highlight both similarities and differences.
2) Compare the frame tales in the Decameron, The Thousand and One Nights and The Canterbury Tales. In each case, what is the reason for telling stories? Do the stories accomplish the purpose for which they are intended? How important is the relationship between the tale and the teller in each selection you discuss?
3) Compare and contrast Machiavellis idea of Fortune with the religious idea of mans free will and, on the other hand, with the meaning of luck when we refer to a contemporary political leader as being lucky.
4) *Comment on the following in terms of poetry we have read this semester:
The content of lyric poetry, Hegel says, is the poet himself; he gives voice to his inner world so as to stir in his audience the feelings, the states of mind he experiences. And even if the poet treats objective themes, external to his own life, the great lyric poet will very quickly move away from them and end up drawing the portrait of himself.
--Milan Kundera, What is a Novelist? in The New Yorker, Oct. 9, 2006