Chaucer's Satirical Portrayal: Pardoner, Prioress, Wife of Bath, Dispense di Letteratura Inglese

Scarica Chaucer's Satirical Portrayal: Pardoner, Prioress, Wife of Bath e più Dispense in PDF di Letteratura Inglese solo su Docsity! THE PARDONER: Chaucher was satirical and sarcastic towards the characters who belonged to the ecclesiastical world because the corruption of the Church of Rome led to the division of the Catholic Church and the birth of the Protestant movement. The pardoner is considered by the poet an unreliable and ambiguous character, having a different sexual orientation, still challenging social norms. Chaucer said that The Pardoner was a eunuch and like the other pilgrims, he brought the tools of his trade with him to Canterbury: in his case, he carried with him signed papal indulgences and many false relics which he tried to sell for money but which he kept to himself instead of giving them to the church. INSIGHT: THE PRIORESS: The final effect of chaucher's description of the prioress is not only a phisical portrait but a psicological one, based on so much on direct comment as on the simple use of certain words and expressions. the result however is strinkingly ambivalent, since the woman can be interpreted in various ways according to stress placed on some sentences rather than on others. The character that emergise from mixture of religious and wordly elements is sloghtly disconcerting due to chaucher's use of the technique of contrasts examplified by such examples: she was a nun but she was known as madame Englantyne, the name of a flower. She was all sentimental and tender heart but more than people she seemed to love animals. She carried a rosary but this one was a coral trinket. Asa rule nuns were forbidden any kind of ornaments but she wore a golden brooch. The words on the brooch apparently refer to divin love but they may also refer to secular love. Although preserving her own individuality, the prioress becames the simbol of a certain way of living in the nunneries and convents of the time, wich Chaucher hits at indirectly with a gently ironic and almost indulgent attitude. The prioress showed her education, she studied to find the way to be sophisticated because she was too concerned about etiquette and style to actually. So she minds apparences, she was interested in material things not in spiritual one. THE WIFE OF BATH: She probably is a merchant and in particular she is devoted at heart. She is proud and she had make a lot of pilgrimages. She has a particular sexual approach in particular for the teeth. She somewhat deal who mad cloth very well. She was five-times widow and she had make a lot of pilgrimages to Rome Bologne St James of Campostela and to Jerusalem to 3 times. She was a indipendence woman who was able to choose what she wanted in the life and also in love affairs. Though that, she wasn't rapresented with her name but the readers know she as a person with her mental status. Chaucher used two hyperbole at line 8 and 10 that create an music effect and an irony with which he explained her contrast between the virtue of charity and her reaction when somebody offend her pride. These are a lot of reason for which she was attracted by pilgrimages: because she was an unconventional woman, because she was rich and because she was a religious woman so she was interested in marking pilgrimage She is a modem woman because she is indipendent and because she travells and she isn't a modem woman because she doesn't have proper name and because she still defined as person by her maritul status.