How are the Cant Tales characters pilgrims?
Where are they going?
Why?
Are they all going for the same reason?
Graceland Tales (a Mr.Scotese story)
The Pardoner? Wife of Bath?
What time of year is it?
Why spring?
By-the-way – did you notice “The Ram”?
How does he introduce them? What order?
Why begin with the Knight?
….less cynical – explain…
But RIGHT after the knight – who comes?
How does this twosome set the tone (now that�you’ve read the entire prologue?)
How is he similar? How is he fundamentally different?
Look at line 121 – about the “forester” - comment
What is a frame story?
Ln 122 – tell me about the prioress
Do many of the clergy seem to act as “they should”?
Does she seem very “nunnish”?
The prioress faints “at a mouse” – what does that tell us?
In her actual tale – it is filled with torture, murder,
anti-Semitism, and no tears are shed.
What does that tell us?
Line 154 – “she was all sentiment” link
Line 166 – her broach “Love conquers all”
How is Chaucer SO different? Radically so?
How is he different than Grendel’s “Shaper”
How does he undermine “the shaper”
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Ln 169: Tell me about the monk?
Again – how do you think the church reacted?
Chaucer’s Deathbed retraction
Ln 182 – The monk did not rate (like) the � text that said how he should act… META
Ln 212 – The friar pretty much the same
280 – The merchant – so funny – after that� Long trip, he doesn’t know his name.
Two reasons… (Mr. Locks’s class)
Line 295 Oxford Cleric (student) “gladly…”
Ln 389 The cook – so gross – WHY?
Ln 455 – The Wife of Bath – why is she going?
There are some funny lines we can’t go over…
Ln 488 – The Parson – finally GOOD CLERGY
Ln 524 – He was “a good shepherd” Who follows him?
Ln 510: “If gold rust, what then iron do” Explain
Line 505 “This noble example to his sheep he gave
that first he wrought, and afterward taught”
Tell me about the Miller.
What does it mean he had a “thumb of gold”? Ln 581
Ln 689 – Who or what is a “pardoner”?
Ln 723-724 – He makes more in a day than the good� parson in a week – explain…
Any other characters you want to talk about?
Are we in any way pilgrims?
How can books, poems, texts like these
(and Grendel) help us on that pilgrimage?
How do current happenings (the Pandemic,� Protests, elections, etc.) change that pilgrimage?
Homework?