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The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

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The miller's tale

  • miller
  • jack of all trades
  • virtue

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characters

  • carpenter
  • miller's wife
  • Absalom
  • Darling Nicolae
  • Alison

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plot

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VIRTUE VICE MORAL

  • deception
  • meanness
  • freeloading
  • lie
  • debauchery
  • temptations

deception and meanness are not rewarded with anything good and everything comes back like a boomerang

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The Knight's Tale

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Characters

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Plot

  • Palamon and Arsita saw Emily and both fell in love
  • Many years passed and Arsita, under the name Philostratus, became Theseus' confidant. At that moment, Palamon manages to escape and met Arsit. Friends decided that only one should stay alive, and began the fight
  • Arsit won the battle but he died
  • Emilia married Palamon

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Moral

  • generosity
  • bravery
  • honour
  • valour

willingness to kill a friend for love

  • Love can kill and lead to crazy actions
  • Fate can change at any moment

Virtue

Vice

courage is the beginning of victory

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The Cook's Tale

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  • handsome young apprentice named Perkin

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  • he likes to gamble, get drunk and have fun

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Characters

  • The Cook
  • Owner
  • The cook's wife

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Plot

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virture vice moral l

  • courage

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  • intelligence

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  • perseverance
  • cunning

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  • fraud

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  • theft

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  • lies

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  • meanness

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  • impudence

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"Cut a rotten pear so that with love

It is better to protect your garden from rot"

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THE CLERK’S TALE

Clerk

Oxford student

possesses 20 books

meek in character but formidable in intellect

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CHARACTERS

Griselda

an exampleti of maritalmn humility,mkji obedienceiiii and devotion

Walter

an example of marital cruelty and mistrust

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VIRTUE VICE MORAL

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dissimulationl

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if you have noffffffn purpose in life, then you have to live forn someone who has it

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devotion

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The Reeve’s tale

skinny

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bad-tempered

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old

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his hair is closely cropped

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Characters

Miller Simkin

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Priest

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Miller's wife (Priest's daughter)

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Simkin's eldest daughter and son

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students John and Alan

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Virtue Wise Moral

Honesty

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The desire to expose

Greed

Lust

Lies

Theft

Deception

Revenge

Karma will return for any committed action

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The Man of Law's Tale

  1. a reasonable and decent person
  2. in informal silk-decorated clothes
  3. wise and cautious but dishonest and cunning
  4. judge in a jury trial
  5. he has a lot of property

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Constance(daughter of the Lord of Rome)

Syrian sultan

the butler and his wife Hermegilda

Alla(King of Northumberland)

Alla's mother

Characters

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  • The Syrian sultan wanted to marry Constance
  • Wanderings
  • Salvation
  • wedding with Allan
  • Alla went to war
  • Constance gave birth to a son
  • Fraud with letters
  • Wanderings
  • Meeting Constance and Alla
  • Constance returned back to Rome

Plot

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faith

the ability not to give up and not to lose hope

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Virtue Vice Moral

cruelty

malice

violence

lie

always think before you do anything

never lose hope and faith in the best

the ability to forgive