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Running head: LITERATURE PROPOSAL 1

LITERATURE PROPOSAL 2

Literature Proposal

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For my proposal, I will go with the tale of the Nun’s Priest. I choose this tale because of its depth and careful detail in the anthropomorphism process of bringing out human characters in animals to derive a tone that gives the objective of the narrative to the audience an interesting manner of being understood. I will attempt to derive the theme and a component of the moral of the story to create a fairy tale of my own as I attempt to strategically create a world of characters that define a story which communicates to the audience a certain tone that brings out the moral of my narrative. The story of the Nun’s priest’s tale is a fable that one can derive many lessons, however from my fable, I intend on bringing out pride and ego as part of the human character that deserves to be criticised. The moral of the fable will be shaped to represent how our egos act as the catalyst for our downfalls in small situations and sometimes in big situations that have long-term effects. For my story, I will need two animals who bring out a sense of pride, one being greater than the other, and at least one which is more clever and cunning. For the narrative, I will bring out a cat as the proud animal who also believes he is cleverer than his peers and who believes that he has nine lives and nothing can lead to his downfall. Then there is the hare which is the cunning animal who leads to the demise of the cat and who is also later affected by the death of the cat but is too proud to accept it. The characters in their true nature represent a form of allusion and throughout the narrative similes such as the pride of a peacock or the cleverness of a fox will sufficiently be utilized

References

Chaucer, G., & Ellis, S. (2014). Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales. Routledge.