The Nun’s Priest’s Tale is a beast fable composed by Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400). In this tale Chaucer revealed the flattery of a cunning fox named sir Russell. Sir Russell lived in the woods. One night, he enters the widow’s yard…
The hen in Chaucer’s ‘Nun’s Priest’s Tale’ and also the wife of Chaunticleer is Lady Pertelote. She is Chauntecleer’s favorite hen and his severest critic in The Nun’s Priest’s Tale. Lady Pertelote is companionable, loving, Judgemental, smart, friendly, and modest. …
The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” tells the story of Chaunticleer, a rooster belonging to a poor old widow. The widow is a minor character in ”The Nun’s Priest’s Tale”. She lives in a small cottage beside a grove of trees in…
Harry Bailly, Bailly also spelled as Bailey, is the Host of the Tabard Inn of Chaucer’s prologue To The Canterbury Tales. Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400) represents him not from a religious viewpoint but from a leading perspective. He is a fictional…
A monk is a man who has dedicated his life to religion, partly by giving up some aspects of regular, worldly life. But in the prologue To the Canterbury Tales Chaucer (1340-1400) exposes the hypocrisy of the clergy class through…
The Knight is described by Chaucer (1340-1400) in the “General Prologue” as the person of the highest social standing amongst the pilgrims, though his manners and his clothes are ordinary. Chaucer begins the “General Prologue” with a description of the…