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Nun - emotional, good manners, speaks french, english decent, and wealthy - elaborate beads, heafty.
Monk - likes to hunt, keeps greyhounds, manly man, doesnt follow cstrict rules of a monk, he does what he wants to do, has a gold pin and fur line coat for vanity.
Friar - begging friars, loves to sing and play and instrument, finest begger, greedy (worldly), drinker, smooth talker, gets women pregnant, supposed to be helping the poor.
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Summoner - a policeman for the church, summons you to church court, could be bribed - has ladies, scary looking - welts and pimples
Physical apperance motches moral essence (body).
Pardoner - sells you a pardon (indulgence), most brilliant story about how he can scam people, lowest of the low, likes to sing love songs, dirty, uncleaned, spaghetti hair, bulging rabid eyes, physically incomplete, hormonally challeneged, suggest a woman disquised as a man or man that is castrated. Written his own pardons - cons people, sings during offering.
Cleric - the threadbare Clerk appears strikingly oblivious to worldly concerns. However, the ultimate purpose of his study is unclear. The Man of Law contrasts sharply with the Clerk in that he has used his studies for monetary gain.
Chaucer points out the problems in the church. |
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| Knight rapes girl, learns lesson: sovereignty, snetenced to the death penalty, goes to the queen and she gives him 1 more chance to find the answer to the question "What do women want"? finds that the answer is some self sovereignty (the abilitiy to say no to sex and be treated the same as if they were dating). |
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Fairtalke quality (somewhat)
Characters: Arveraguy - knight , Dorigen - wife, Aurelius - squire, live on the ocast of France - Brittany, afraid of black rocks because she thinks her husband's ship will get wrecked on them after coming back from from his journey of two years. Implied Critisim of wife of bath's point of view, the knight is a lower calls then his wife.
Medieval people love to embellish their stories, point of reading this is to see where stories come from, morals of the story. |
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| In Arthur’s court, however, a young, lusty knight comes across a beautiful young maiden one day. Overcome by lust and his sense of his own power, he rapes her. The court is scandalized by the crime and decrees that the knight should be put to death by decapitation. However, Arthur’s queen and other ladies of the court intercede on his behalf and ask the king to give him one chance to save his own life. Arthur, wisely obedient to wifely counsel, grants their request. The queen presents the knight with the following challenge: if, within one year, he can discover what women want most in the world and report his findings back to the court, he will keep his life. If he cannot find the answer to the queen’s question, or if his answer is wrong, he will lose his head. |
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Radix Malorum est cupiditas: "The Rood of all evils is the love of money and gold"
The way he tricks his audience - theme of sermon = how bad greed is, gets audience to contribute money to hims, sells false relics,
Trying to sell to the host (BAD IDEAD)
try to sell fake pardosn to host for money, segwayed into advertisement. |
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| As three of these rioters sit drinking, they hear a funeral knell. One of the revelers’ servants tells the group that an old friend of theirs was slain that very night by a mysterious figure named Death. The rioters are outraged and, in their drunkenness, decide to find and kill Death to avenge their friend. Traveling down the road, they meet an old man who appears sorrowful. He says his sorrow stems from old age—he has been waiting for Death to come and take him for some time, and he has wandered all over the world. The youths, hearing the name of Death, demand to know where they can find him. The old man directs them into a grove, where he says he just left Death under an oak tree. The rioters rush to the tree, underneath which they find not Death but eight bushels of gold coins with no owner in sight. |
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| Wife of Bath other stuff on exam sheet |
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What men say about women : "you say"
1. women like fancy clothes to go out
2. want to marry rich men
3. always interested in sex
4. hide their faults
5.insist on always being flattered
6. dont care about biblical virtue
7. love is like hell
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| Wife of bathhh more prologue infro |
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husbands 1-3 old and rich, 4 has a cancubine (has his own mistresses) 5 is Johnny has a bad book of women wheni think back on my youth.
old = wise, poor = doesnt have to worry about stuff being stolen... can jsut be happy, low born = dont have to worry aboit her cheating on him |
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