There are many different places people say it comes from such as It's orgin is from Regius Poem of about 1390 AD, It is the oldest known Masonic document which is now in a Library. It is used by early Freemasons to regulate to guide the Mason trade and rules of manners and moral conduct. According to Webster's dictionary, the word mote was originally a Saxon verb which meant "must." It appears in the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer, who used the line The words mote be cousin to the deed in his prologue to the Canterbury Tales. Gerald Gardner, was also known to have Masonic connections. It comes from the Druid revival of 1717 and was put into the Wicca/Witch vocabulary in the 50's by Gerald Gardner. It is customary in contemporary English to end …show more content…
Knowing what you want and stating it that way will help you better understand the knowledge that is behind something it also is great for the pagan/wiccan practices because you are doing things the way you want them to and using your energy and it will help even more so to get the job done so to speak. Knowing what this word is or any word knowing the true meaning of a words is very helpful for what ever you are doing to be able to will things your way you need to know and understand how or why it works the way it does so you know you are doing it correctly. It helps your to connect better with the deities and the four elements even magic. I would used it because it is polite and the way it needs to be in order for you not to be rude you can not just do something and not say thank you in some way and expect it to happen. Do not expect things to happen will it to happen by saying so mote it be and it will happen that way. I was always used to saying "Amen" after every prayer because that what I grew up to know and I was saying to a form that I did not know the true meaning of the word. There are do many different ways that people can twist a word and not even know where it comes from or how it statrted it just gets picked up and sticks understanding the true menaing of a word is so much better
Geoffrey Chaucer’s famous medieval classic, The Canterbury Tales, offers its readers a vast array of characters. This God’s plenty features numerous unique and challenging individuals, but there is one specifically who stands out as particularly interesting. The immoral Pardoner, who, in a sense, sells away his soul for the sake of his own avarice, puzzles many modern readers with his strange logic. Already having laid his considerable guilt upon the table, this corrupted agent of the Church attempts to pawn off his counterfeit relics for a generous price. His actions are slightly troubling and mysterious, but his shameless misdeed is easily explainable if a reader chooses to interpret the man as a symbol rather than a fully formed human
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.
In society, deception, cunningness, and other uses of trickery are quite common. Whether these themes are seen easily or are placed more discreetly, they are found in society often. Simply take a look at any political ad, certain sexual assault cases, or any form of social media, especially dating apps such as Tinder and Bumble. More often than not, political advertisements, sexual assault cases, and social media involve extraordinary amounts of deception, cunning words, and lies to call someone to a certain action. Political advertisements contain propaganda to push a political view. Sexual assault cases frequently begin with cunning, seductive words used to draw someone into an act they do not desire to commit. Social media is possibly the most common form of deception as countless amounts of people edit their photos to attain a desired body image or skin tone, essentially cat-fishing anyone who follows them. Furthermore, deception and cunningness are not only common in society, but is also present in literature in several ways. In Geoffrey Chaucer’s epic poem, “The Canterbury Tales,” Chaucer uses seduction, craftiness, and trickery as a form of persuasion, revenge, and to prove tricks do not come without consequences.
Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales was originally a frame story including thirty people, later to become thirty-one. Does filthy reading make a great tale? A morally sound story is one that is clean, has an easily discovered moral and a moral that teaches a good lesson. The Miller’s Tale is quite a tale to tell, this tale does lack of being morally sound, it is entertaining and it fits The Host’s personality.
Everyone has a story. Certainly Chaucer believes so as he weaves together tales of twenty nine different people on their common journey to Canterbury. Through their time on the road, these characters explore the diverse lives of those traveling together, narrated by the host of the group. Each character in the ensemble is entitled to a prologue, explaining his or her life and the reasons for the tale, as well as the actual story, meant to have moral implications or simply to entertain. One narrative in particular, that of the Wife of Bath, serves both purposes: to teach and to amuse. She renounces the submissive roles of a woman and reveals the moral to her story while portraying women as sex seeking, powerful creatures, an amusing thought
For many teenagers, their 18th birthday is long awaited for and an exciting milestone in their life. This is where becoming a legal adult and the ability to make their own decisions without the permission of their parents. But not all teens feel this same sense of joy about turning 18, instead it is dreaded. For the hundreds of thousands of children living in foster care in the United States, this new found freedom brings anxiety and fear. Teenagers who turn 18 and have been living in foster care are now released and expected to live on their own and are no longer cared for by the government, this is known as aging out of foster care. Most people are aware of foster care programs but most are not aware of the difficulties and challenges that these teens face when trying to support themselves. Numerous studies have already been conducted on this specific topic but this research is being conducted on the assumption that it will provide a better understanding of aging out of foster care and the difficulties that a teen come face to face with when trying to become successful after the transition into adulthood without guidance and resources as well as possible ideas to help these teens get on their feet.
While on the way to venerate Saint Thomas Becket’s remains, the entertainment of Chaucer’s Canterbury pilgrims falls upon the requiting of stories between the different estates. However, this requiting quickly turns malicious, the Host’s simple proposition evolving into an aggressive show of social dominance that includes the boasting of both literal and metaphorical rape. The normalization (or, borderline reverence) of aggressive manliness contributes to the creation of both rape culture and compulsory heterosexuality. Consequently, when a man does not dominate a woman—or, does not use his masculinity to humiliate another man—he is seen as weak or effeminate, subsequently placing his sexuality under scrutiny. Such is the motive behind John and Aleyn’s rape of the miller’s wife and daughter—to make Symkin seem weak, and to gain a reputation of superior masculinity. Thus,
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 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 woman was fair skinned and her body was slim. She wore a stripped silken
The Canterbury Tales, a masterpiece of English Literature, written by Geoffrey Chaucer, is a collection, with frequent dramatic links, of 24 tales told to pass the time during a spring pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Thomas a Becket in Canterbury. The General Prologue introduces the pilgrims, 29 "sondry folk" gathered at the Tabard Inn in Southwark (outside of London). Chaucer decides to join them, taking some time to describe each pilgrim.
confusion among the enemy; in which Joshua sung and used trumpets to destroy the great city of Jericho; another example of faith winning over evil includes David fighting Goliath with a slingshot. All such examples taught us lessons that there is no way we can win over evil without the help of God.
Within Geoffrey Chaucer 's General Prologue, he describes the broad spectrum of characters in concise yet immersive language. One of the first to be examined is the character of the young Squire. Throughout the description of the Squire, Chaucer offers the reader multiple avenues or rather poses a question of interpretation in how to view the Squire. Is he, in fact, a pure and pious aspiring knight or is he artificial, and his construction denoting a true conceitedness? In Chaucer 's depiction of the Squire, the word "meede"appears in the context of the line "Embroidered was he as it were a meede" (Chaucer 237). This word takes on a literal meaning, in that Chaucer is truly referencing a meadow. “Meede” poses a disconnect between the highly material world of chivalric tradition, and the natural and pastoral realm of a meadow. By using this particular image, Chaucer forces his reader to decide if this word means this character is vain, humble, constructed, organic or some combination of these things. In this essay, both avenues of interpretation will be explored, in an attempt to parse out the meaning of this association and its various approaches.
In the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer gives a detailed description of what life was like in Medieval times . In the “Prologue”, the reader comes to better understand the people of the time period through the characters words and actions. Chaucer uses a variety of groups of society to give the reader a deeper insight into the fourteenth century Pilgrims customs and values. Through the Court, Common people and the Church, Gregory Chaucer gives a detailed description of ordinary life in the medieval times.
Drugs: A substance which has a physiological effect when introduced into the body. Addiction: the compulsive need to use a habit-forming substance. I began to take a drug, uneducated about the side effects that were to come. Every morning, every night and every chance that I could get I took this drug. Originally, I took this drug to help, it was meant to connect me to the world and keep me updated. Now, I cannot last a couple of hours, let alone an entire day without the taste of it. The first thing I do when I wake up in the morning and the last thing I do when I go to sleep at night is consume this hateful drug. I had always believed that drugs were invented to improve an individual’s well-being, I did not realise that the side effects could ever be worse than the beneficial effects.