Chaucer The Monk's Tale

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer can be understood as a text that criticizes glossing and those who gloss. In this case, glossing a text is the comments, explanations, and interpretations one infers from reading the piece of literature and the understanding that can be taken away from it; this is different for every individual who reads the written word. I believe Chaucer wrote some of these tales as a critique of certain figures in his society. The question one should ask when reading, or being read to, is what is the meaning behind the text and where does the meaning lie. When, directly, reading a text one can determine the meaning of the author through one’s own interpretation. When one is being read to, they are being given the information in a biased form; this prevents one from being able to interpret the text for oneself and leads to the audience being glossed, as well as the text, and Chaucer criticizes the crowd’s contentedness to be glossed at and to.

Chaucer has a somewhat clear opinion on the Guildsmen. In a way, he seems like he kind of looked

The Franklin’s Tale, one of the many stories comprising the Canterbury Tales, is one of Chaucer’s most celebrated and most contradictory works. This tale set in medieval Brittany narrates the uncanny marriage of the knight Arveragus and his lady Dorigen. This unlikely union was based on mutual trust, love and truthfulness and knew neither the rule of the lady that was typical of courtly love, nor the domination by the husband that was expected of a traditional marriage. In the controversial scene that will be discussed here, Arveragus orders Dorigen to give herself to a man to whom she had made the reckless promise of giving her love if he could accomplish an impossible deed.

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer consists of frame narratives were a group of pilgrims that are traveling from Southwark to the shire of St. Becker in the Canterbury Cathedral, tell each other to pass time until they arrive at their destination. During The Canterbury Tales the reader is exposed to many characters that represent all of the social classes of medieval England and the reader gets to know them from the general prologue to each individual tale. One of these characters is the Pardoner, when the Pardoners is introduced he is described as the stereotypical pardoner of the Fourteen Century. The pardoner is describe as a crafty and a corrupt individual that will do anything to sell his pardons and relics. Nevertheless one of the most important characteristics that the Pardoner exhibits is his frankness about his own hypocrisy and sins. The pardoner accuses himself of fraud, avarice, and gluttony (the very things that he preaches against). During the Pardoners prologue, but most noticeable during his tale, the pardoners preach about how “Greed is the root of all evil”, and how our sins can lead cause our dismay.

New York: Stephen Greenblatt, 2006. Print. Internal/ External Characterization: Qualities of the Monk Selfish: In the prologue the Monk displays selfish behavior. The monk clearly brings his own desires ahead of the needs of others.

If there is one thing that Matthew Lewis’ novel The Monk: A Romance teaches us about writing, it is that William Shakespeare was an amazing creative author. Just about every facet of Lewis story is, at least in some part, borrowed from Shakespeare’s work.

Anyone can agree that Chaucer is trying to tell the stories to capture life in all teeming glory. Most people think that Chaucer seems to be a good willed person and does not have any type of agenda he is working towards to reform something. Chaucer seems like a very smart person and a moral person who would not do such a thing as described above. Chaucer knows he is a smart and able bodied to recreate such stories so he does so with no reason other than him knowing he is able to do so.

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is a story of a contest who can tell the best tale. The rules of the contest were as follows: Each pilgrim would tell four tales for the trip to Canterbury, two on the journey there and two on the way back.. The tales will be judged by the Host for it’s entertainment and moral lessons. The winner of the contest will enjoy a meal paid for by the remaining pilgrims at the Host's Inn. “The Miller’s Tale” had fulfilled the criteria to win the contest. It was a shorter story, but it was entertaining and had a few lessons that can be learned from hearing or reading it. This story is significant because it does a great job of pointing out of some of the problems in the church during that time as well as how the morals of some people were not strong as well.

In the most interesting and insightful segment of the piece, Major states that, "This Narrator reveals himself to be, like his creator... witty, sophisticated... and, above all, ironic. Such a man is very well aware of the significance of what he observes, though he may show his awareness by subtly means" (Major 160-161). Major stresses that it would take a considerably dense individual to fail to realize that he made contradictions in admiring vastly different people. Such a person is so far removed from Chaucer's own self that it is difficult to compare the two, and he wouldn't even be fit to travel with the characters and record their tales with appropriate nuance and detail anyway. Major concludes that the Narrator often made his comments and observations with deliberate use of irony.

As time moves on, within a societal context, so do our the cultural views and traditions. For example, as of today, our society has become more and more welcoming in dealing with sexual orientation and even immigration. However, in the previous century, homosexuals and immigrants were prosecuted for their actions against the “church”, constitution, and so on. “The Monk’s Tale” was technically written in 1395. Within that period there was a strong belief in both God and the secondary attributes that affect they way people receive and view consequences. Therefore, “The Monk’s Tale”, which is a parable based on the premise of Fortune and her actions towards the people who use her, was probably written in this way because of the prior views of

In The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer comments on moral corruption within the Roman Catholic Church. He criticizes many high-ranking members of the Church and describes a lack of morality in medieval society; yet in the “Retraction,” Chaucer recants much of his work and pledges to be true to Christianity. Seemingly opposite views exist within the “Retraction” and The Canterbury Tales. However, this contradiction does not weaken Chaucer’s social commentary. Rather, the “Retraction” emphasizes Chaucer’s criticism of the Church and society in The Canterbury Tales by reinforcing the risk inherent in doing so.

The assignment was broken up into two parts. Each member had a device to configure Dan configured Branch1 router, Adam was assigned Branch2 router, Okoma configured the switch, PC, ISP, and Kevin configured the Core router. We did not receive a config from Adam so, Kevin was able to do that part too. Okoma and Dan provided a brief written summary of the work they performed and Kevin put the paper together.

Geoffrey Chaucer was a poet, a writer, and of course a diplomat. Geoffrey Chaucer was born in the early hours of 1340s to John Chaucer, a vintner and assistant to the king's butler. As a boy, he was a leaf to the Countess of Ulster. (Lombardi) Chaucer was the most famous for writing his unfinished Canterbury tales. (Geoffrey Chaucer) He was born in London, only problem is, the exact date and place are unknown. From his writings Chaucer emerges as poet of love, both worldly and heavenly. No information exists about his early education, although without a doubt he would have been as good in French as in the Middle English of his time. (Bio.True Story) Chaucer pops up in the record books in 1357 he was working for the queen.

We love to indulge in the celebrity gossip of pop stars, actors and reality television personalities. We thrive on their drama and so does the media. But do these pop stars and reality television stars influence society negatively or positively? Are they good role models for young people? Definitely not. Hollywood celebrities are not good role models. A role model is some we look up to and aspire to be like.

As I crouch, hardly breathing, in a barrel much too small for me to be in, I wonder how on earth I got into this mess. The ancient ship creaks and rocks as a sinking feeling grows in my stomach. It was a dare by my so-called friends for me to sneak onto the museum attraction on the last day it was in town, simply to “have a little fun” and to see where the museum kept the huge boat. I was all for it – I needed some adventure in my life. Unfortunately, I seem to have stumbled on something a little bigger than a display.