Priest's Crowing In The Canterbury Tales

When the story of Saint Cecilia was finished and the company continued on their journey, they came across two men. One of them was clad all in black and had been traveling quickly on their horses; the narrator believes that he must be a canon (an alchemist). The Canon's Yeoman said that they wished to join the company on their journey, for they had heard of their tales. The Host asked if the Canon could tell a tale, and the Yeoman answers that the Canon knows tales of mirth and jollity, and is a man whom anybody would be honored to know. The Host guesses that his master was a clerk, but the Yeoman says that he is something

Forms of speech and intonation are extremely important to capture the attention of the audience, whether it is in writing or spoken aloud. In literature, the author uses some literary devices to entice the reader and extract some sort of reaction from him or her. Tone is a literary technique that shows the author’s attitude towards the audience or reader. The tone of a literary work can be informal, formal, serious, angry, playful, intimate, etc. Similar to tone is mood, which is the created atmosphere with the intention of coaxing a certain emotion from the audience, and is created through setting, theme, and tone. Irony, however, is a tone in which the real meaning is contradicted by the words that were used. The Canterbury Tales

The prologues that link the various Canterbury Tales shift effortlessly from ponderous drama to light comedy. The lamentable tale of Griselde gives way to the Host's complaint about his shrewish wife. This prologue

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is a fictional book about people who are going to Canterbury to receive the blessings of St. Thomas Becket. The Host suggests that to make a journey pleasant, every member has to tell a story and the person who tells the best story will get free dinner paid by the other members. The Host decides to accompany other members to Canterbury and serves as the judge of the Tale. A relationship is usually seen between a teller of a tale and the tale that he or she decides to share. The Pardoner, The Merchant, and the Wife of Bath use their feelings and experience to teach the lessons in the tale. Merchant has poor and second-rate views on marriage whereas Pardoner commits lot of sins and frauds and Wife of Bath wants womens to have control over their life.

Written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the fourteenth century, The Canterbury Tales is a poetic masterpiece. This work is rather unique because of its format and use of satire. The story is a framed narrative, a story within a story. The outer frame is a pilgrimage to the shine of Saint Thomas Becket, the martyred Archbishop of Canterbury. This journey is made by thirty pilgrims, including Chaucer the Pilgrim, who vary in social standing, ranging from aristocrat to peasant but excluding royalty and serfs. Chaucer often utilizes satire to draw attention to how well or how poorly suited a pilgrim is to his or her social status. The pilgrims gather at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, England, outside London. Harry Bailly, the owner of the Inn, proposes a story-telling contest among the pilgrims to keep them entertained along the pilgrimage. He offers to accompany the pilgrims at his own expense in order to judge the contest. The plan is for each of the thirty pilgrims to tell four tales, two on the ay to the shrine and two on the journey home. The individual tales comprise the inner frame. Of the proposed 120 tales, the story that is considered most entertaining and most moral will be selected as the winner. The teller of that story will receive a dinner at the Inn upon his or her return at the expense of the other pilgrims. Despite the planned 120 tales, only twenty-two full tales and two fragments exist. One completed tale, told by the Wife of Bath, epitomizes Chaucer’s uncanny ability to match each tale to its teller.

“The Knight’s Tale” that the Knight tells in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is representative of the Knight’s standing as a member of the Second Estate. During England’s Medieval Times, society was split up into three estates—the clergy, the nobility and military, and the peasants and merchants. Members of the Second Estate, which was made up of noblemen and soldiers, were to fight and protect the people of the town, as well as watch over the peasants who worked the land. As a soldier, the Knight’s tale exemplifies the qualities of the military, in that the characters of Palamon, Arcite, and Theseus were strong, honorable men whose lives revolved loyalty, gallantry and protecting the people by fighting in battles. Furthermore, the

The Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffrey Chaucer, is a collection of stories from Old English into one big book or, in shorter terms, a framework. In The Prologue, Chaucer introduces each pilgrim that is traveling to Canterbury to visit a martyr, Saint Thomas Becket, who helped them when they were in need, in Canterbury Cathedral. A total of twenty nine pilgrims accompanied the narrator on this lengthy trip. Later on that day while the guests were eating, the host suggest a way to make the trip more interesting. He says that each person on the trip that they must tell two tales on the way there and two on the way back and whoever tells the best tale will have “supper at the expense of us all,” 1 and when they get back from Canterbury, the

In Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, a set of pilgrims have a story-telling competition while travelling to Canterbury to visit the the shrine of Saint Thomas-a-Becket. The Merchant and the Franklin both participate in this competition. The Merchant’s Tale is a response to a previous tale (The Clerk’s) and inspired by a personal experience. The Franklin’s Tale is a retelling of an older tale. The Merchant is the last person to tell a vulgar tale, dealing with a theme such as lust. The Franklin, who tells his tale after the Merchant, tells a tale that lives up to the chivalric code . Prior to The Merchant’s Tale, the Clerk tells a tale about a wife that is put through a series of tests by her husband. Even with the unnecessary and extremely difficult trials, the wife remains faithful and loyal to her husband. In his prologue, the Merchant says he can relate to the sadness that marriage can bring although he has only been married for two months. The Merchant says that marriage “is a trap” and is asked to further explain his theory. The Merchant’s Tale is about a knight named January, who had lived for sixty years without a wife. He gets married and his squire goes behind his back to have an affair with his new wife. As the tale ends, the Host prays aloud that God will keep him from such a deceitful wife. But he stops himself from telling more stories about his own wife, fearing that one of the pilgrims will tell on him. The Franklin’s Tale is about a knight named Arveragus desires a wife. He marries a young maiden named Dorigen. While her husband is away on a crusade, Dorigen is stressing in his absence. Then Arveragus returns and finds Dorigen extremely distraught. Dorigen then explains everything to him and he says she must keep her promise, even though it hurts him. Dorigen presents herself to Aurelius. However, when Aurelius learns of Arveragus' actions and how he lives up the chivalric code, he cuts off the deal and sends Dorigen back to him. The two tales have similar character structures, a female and two males. The two tales deal with the topic of medieval love, faithfulness and commitment in marriage. It can be argued that Chaucer doesn’t

Salem Alzabidy English 201 Mr. Philippi February 16 The Nun’s Priest’s Tale Analysis The Nun’s Priest’s Tale is one of the best and loved tale of all of the Tales, and the genre that Chaucer uses in his tale is beast fable, which is one of Chaucer’s successors. The narrator focuses mostly on the relationship between human and animal telling those who find animals tales meaningless or without a purpose, neglecting the tale itself. Chaucer takes us on a journey to explore in great detail how animals can be humanized.

The Nun’s Priest’s Tale is one of the best and loved tale of all of the Tales, and the genre that Chaucer uses in his tale is beast fable, which is one of Chaucer’s successors. The narrator focuses mostly on the relationship between human and animal telling those who find animals tales meaningless or without a purpose, neglecting the tale itself. Chaucer takes us on a journey to explore in great detail how animals can be humanized. In other words, how an animal can represent a human moral even if it is in a tale. The Nun’s Priest’s Tale is considered a merry tale for many people, but it is ultimately not a straightforward merry tale after all. Therefore, the main purpose of this story is to teach us a great lesson to be aware of the dangers of flattery about knowing when to talk and when to put a

The Canterbury Tales was written in Middle English and today, it is the most famous piece of work by the fourteenth century poet Geoffrey Chaucer. These tales were a series of stories told by a group of people taking a pilgrimage to Canterbury. Each member of the group was responsible for telling two tales on the way to Canterbury, then another two on the way back. Whoever’s tale was told best would be treated to a feast just to them self by the other members. Although each tale was different, the stories showed many similarities between the characters’ personalities. The stories: The Nun’s Priest’s Tale, The Pardoner’s Tale, and The Wife of Bath all show their personalities as arrogant.

In the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, he criticizes the hypocrisy of the Church by introducing controversial clergy members, like the Nun, in the General Prologue. The churchmen and the Nun are on a pilgrimage to Canterbury. Chaucer illustrates and indicates the ironic qualities of the Nun on his mission to expose the Church’s pretense of purity and selflessness. Chaucer describes the Nun’s appearance as:

In The Canterbury Tales, humor is a vital component for the readers to understand in order to appreciate the folly of man in terms of education, religion, and society. Geoffrey Chaucer creates humor not only through devising comical plotlines, but by also using poetic devices to deliver his wit to his readers and create entertainment at many different literary levels. In “The Prologue to the Monk’s Tale,” Chaucer reflects the humor of attitudes held towards class and religious stereotypes by having the host insult the monk’s overly masculine appearance and his dedication to the church, using techniques such as euphemism and hyperbole.

Geoffrey Chaucer introduces a wide variety of characters to the readers of The Canterbury Tales. From a knight to a cook, the pilgrims in the work each have their own story as well as a purpose with their stories even though that purpose is difficult to find at first. Jill Mann contends, “Undoubtedly it is true that Chaucer not only persuades us that fools and rascals can be very charming people, but is at the same time taking care to make us suspect that they are fools and rascals” (Chaucer and Medieval Estates Satire 192). The charm of these fools and rascals are amusing at first, but readers must also remember that these characters are still not exempt from their faults and flaws. Mann’s observation pertaining to Chaucer’s pilgrims and their corresponding tales applies most accurately to the Pardoner, the Miller, and the Wife of Bath.

Geoffrey Chaucer implants himself into The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer fabricates a romantic and whimsical narrative which centers around Sir Thopas, a knight whose desire is the love of an elf queen. However, the Host interrupts the tale and Chaucer does not complete his story. The tale begins through the use of a prologue. In the Prologue, astonishment and solemnity becomes apparent on each face of the pilgrims after their experience while listening to the Prioress’ Tale. The Narrator states the emotions: “When all this miracle was told, every man/Was so sober that it was wonderful to see”(l. 691-92). The emotions of the pilgrims quickly subsides when the Host begins to joke. The Host takes interest in Chaucer and asks “What sort of man are you?” (l. 695). The Host then requests that Chaucer expeditiously tell a tale. Chaucer responds by stating that he only knows one tale, which is a rhyming romance. Chaucer explains to the caravan that his knowledge of the tale dates back years ago.