Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Priestess & Her Tale of Child Protection, Sintesi del corso di Inglese

Scarica Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Priestess & Her Tale of Child Protection e più Sintesi del corso in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! NARRATIVE POEM G. Choucer was born in 1343 He was considered the father of the English literature because was the first one who decided to use English as a literary language. He used the Middle English (mixture between French and anglosaxon) Choucer wrote a work that is titled “The Canterbury Tales” in which he speaks about 30 pilgrims (29+him) who don’t know each other and had to walk from London to Canterbury, but before setting off all these pilgrims meet in an inn (small hotel where people can sleep and eat something to rest). (They are all representative of the middle class because the aristocracy would never mix a lower class in the pilgrimage.) The owner of the inn proposed a competition: each pilgrim should tell 2 stories on the way to Canterbury and 2 stories on the way back. The person who told the most interesting story would win a prize. This work is composed by various parts: FIRST PART: there is a general prologue, in this introduction we have the setting, the introduction to the work and the description of the characters (of the pilgrims)->they all come from the middle class that was starting to emerge in that period, it was composed by merchants, people who work, people from the clergy. They were not described by using their first name but using a word that represent their profession, to have a clear picture of the social class of that time. SECOND PART: there are the tales, pilgrims tells their the story. Choucer died before completing his work so instead of 120 stories we only have 24 stories. DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIORESS: There was a nun that was called Madame Eglantyne.
 She sang well the service and spoke elegantly In French. During the meals she didn’t let a piece of food fall from her lips and she didn’t eat with her fingers (at that time it was very common) because she had good manners. She was entertaining and friendly in her ways. She wished to belong to aristocratic class so she was really interested in good manners of the court.
 She was careful and she used to cry if she saw a mouse caught in a trap that was bleeding or dead. She used to feed her dogs with precious food.
 She wore lots of precious jewels as bracelets, a set of pearls with a golden pendant shine and bright in which there was written a crowned A. And Amor vincit omnia. THE PRIORESS’S TALE In Asia there was a ghetto supported by the king. In this ghetto people might walk because it is open. At the end of the ghetto there was a Christian school where a group of children received a primary education. Inside the group there was a widow’s son, he is a devote child and in case he saw an image of Mary he was in the habit of praying.
 This child when he was at school, listened other children that was singing and learned by heart these verses. This child used to walk in a ghetto. He pray while he was going to school e while he was going back home. The hearts of the Jewish people was the nest of Satan. One day the child was kidnapped and then killed. The widow waited for her son and when sun came up she sought him in school and in the end she found him in the street of Jews. This boy from the ground began to sing and in all the places his voice could be heard. He was found and a lot of people helped the mother to take him and he was taken to the church in the neighbor by the crowd and there was his funeral. The judge did judgment on all the men that committed this horrible crime and they where condemned to a shameful death in pain.