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  • Nun's Priest's Tale
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    Chaucer begins The Nun's Priest's Tale by describing a simple widow and her two simple daughters. They own a barn where a magnificently handsome cock with a beautiful and accurate "cock-a-doodle-do". Here, his seven wives also live; his favorite is the most beautiful Pertelote. He one day speaks to her about a dream. In this dream, a fox eats Chanticleer, the cock, and Chanticleer now worries that it may come true. Pertelote does not believe in this predestination and gives her argument. She the...
  • Moral Of The Friars Tale
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    In Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales, The Friars Tale supports the Friars persona outlined in the opening prologue. The tale told bye the Friar is one about extortion and hypocrisy, which is how Chaucer subtly describes the Friar. The tale told by the Friar is also a clever way of the Friar to express his dislike for his fellow pilgrim, the Summoner. The Friar, by definition of his job title, is to be a man of the church, caring for the poor and less fortunate and living by the Bible. On the...
  • Associates Griselda With Christian Patience
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    My students grimace at Griselda. And, quite frankly, why shouldn't they. By any contemporary standards of behavior her actions are reprehensible; not only does she relinquish all semblances of personal volition, she deserts all duties of maternal guardianship as she forfeits her daughter and son to the -- in so far as she knows -- murderous intent of her husband. Regardless of what we think of her personal subservience to Walter, the surrendering of her children is a hard point to get around. Ev...
  • Pardoner's Tale
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    During the Middle Ages, England was a nation in social chaos. Deception of every kind was rampart throughout the lands. Many people felt that there was a great need for moral improvement in society. In Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales he clearly brings to light his thoughts and concerns of "ethical cleansing". No tale more fully expresses this idea than that of "The Pardoner's Tale" and "The Nun's Priest's Tale."The Pardoner's Tale" suggests a profile of the Pardoner as a moral man, a man...
  • Thompson's Presentation Of Boccaccio
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    N.S. Thompson, Chaucer, Boccaccio, and the Debate of Love: A Comparative Study of The Decameron and The Canterbury Tales. Oxford: Clarendon, 1996; 354 pp. ; Nigel Thompson's book resists alignment with current concerns in late-medieval studies: he has little or nothing to say about manuscripts and their dissemination; about the audiences, reception, and imitation of the works he treats; about gender and its representation; about contemporary social and political developments and how these works ...
  • Fairy Tale
    553 words
    As a general rule, children love fairy tales. We grow up being read Grimm's or watching Disney remakes of classics. Parents love telling children fairy tales not only because they have an opportunity to spend time with their sons and daughters, but also because fairy tales, like fables, always contain a lesson or moral within them. Although both Kate Chopin's "The Storm", and D.H. Lawrence's "The Rocking Horse Winner" have some of the qualities of a child's fairy tale, only one of the stories ha...
  • Pardoner's Tale From The Canterbury Tales
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    Fictitious stories serve readers in two main ways: socially and individually. The Canterbury Tales is a collection of fiction and, therefore, serves both of these functions. Fiction can have many purposes in the two categories of social and individual function. A social function is the teaching of morals. These morals can be taught by showing the "right" way or the "wrong" way according to society of the novel or the author. An individual function is pure entertainment. Many people read stories ...
  • Specific Prologue To The Physician's Tale
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    The Physician's Tale This story was a fable. Apius, a judge, sees the beautiful Virginia and lusts for her. His accomplice Claudius, invents the story that Virginia is a thrall or slave, rather than Virginius' daughter, and he has unlawfully stolen her from Claudius. Apius, the "judge" rules that Virginius must immediately turn over Virginia to Claudius. Virginius tells his daughter she has only two options, death or shame, and they decide that she should sooner die then meet this fate. He cuts ...
  • Different In Many Ways
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    All societies have their own unique folktales and fairytales. They are the true mirror of the people because they are personal and are passed down from one generation to another verbally. Mothers tell them to their children at bedtime, entertaining them while at the same time teaching them important principles and lesson that they will need later on in life. The stories differ in many ways, but all express the moral and ethical belief of the culture that spawned them. "Green Willow", the Japanes...

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