THE PRIORESS - LA SUORA, Temi di Inglese

Scarica THE PRIORESS - LA SUORA e più Temi in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! THE PRIORESS 1-There also was a Nun (nan), a Prioress, Her way of smiling (smailing) very simple and coy. Her greatest (greytest) oath (oth) was only ‘By St. Loy!’ And she was known as Madam Eglantyne. (Eglantain) 5-And well she sang a service, with a fine Intoning through her nose,as was most seemly, And she spoke daintily in French, extremely, After the school of Stratford-atte-Bowe; French in the Paris style she did not know. 10-At meat her manners were well taught withal; No morsel from her lips did she let fall, Nor dipped her fingers in the sauce too deep; But she could carry a morsel up and keep The smallest drop from falling on her breast. 15-For courtliness she had a special zest, And she would wipe her upper lip so clean That not a trace of grease was to be seen Upon her cup when she had drunk; to eat She reached a hand sedately for the meat. 20-She certainly was very entertaining, Pleasant and friendly in her ways, and straining To counterfeit a courtly kind of grace, A stately bearing fitting to her place, And to seem dignified in all her dealings. 25-As for her sympathies and tender feelings She was so charitably solicitous She used to weep if she but saw a mouse Caught in a trap if it were dead or bleeding. And she had little dogs she would be feeding 30-With roasted flesh, or milk, or fine white bread And bitterly she wept if one were dead Or someone took a stick and made it smart; She was all sentiment and tender heart. Her veil was gathered in a seemly way, 35-Her nose was elegant, her eyes glass-grey; Her mouth was very small, but soft and red, Her forehead certainly was fair of spread, Almost a span across the brows, I own; She was indeed by no means undergrown. O qualcuno prendeva un bastone e faceva del male; Era molto sentimentale e dal cuore tenero. Il suo velo era raccolto in modo opportuno, Il suo naso era elegante, i suoi occhi grigi come il vetro; La sua bocca era molto piccola, ma morbida e rossa, La sua fronte certamente era spaziosa, Quasi una spanna tra le sopracciglia, lo ammetto; E non era per niente bassa di statura. Il suo mantello notai che aveva un garbato fascino. Indossava un braccialetto di corallo sul suo braccio, Un rosario, i grani più grossi colorati di verde, Da cui pendeva una spilla d’oro di chiarissimo splendore Sulla quale era incisa una A coronata, E più sotto, Amor vincit omnia. Madame Eglantine, or The Prioress (praioress), is a central (sentral) character in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. Madame Eglantine's character serves (servs) as a sort of satire (satair) for the day, in that she is a nun who lives (livs) a secular lifestyle. It is implied (implaid) that she uses her religious lifestyle as a means of social advancement.(advensment) Madame Eglantine is beautiful, graceful, well-mannered (mennerid) and kind, (kaind) praying with "the elegance of a blissful queen." However (awever), her mispronounced (mispronunsid) French and strange (streng) mannerisms (mennrisms) suggest (saggest) that she was once (uans) lower-class. Her story tells of a Christian child slain by Jews (gius) and resurrected in a sense by the Virgin Mary, and the story's antisemitism has gained (geind) much criticism. (critisaism) Summary Personality Madame Eglantine is sweet, gentle, and kind. She is selfless, amiable (emibol), and is described as being so delicate that she almost seems fragile (fregiail). However, she is revealed (riveild) to be quite coy and secretive. (sicretiv) She is nearly the opposite of what a nun was expected to be. While The Second Nun is pious (paius), devout (devot), and faithful to a fault (folt), Madame Eglantine is described to live a surprisingly (sorpraisingli) secular lifestyle. The Prioress owns many expensive things and keeps many lap dogs as pets. She enjoys the company of her dogs more than the company of other people. This implies (implais) that she is lonely. (lonly) Physical Description Madame Eglantine is very beautiful (almost too pretty to be a nun). She has an oval face, a small nose, large blue eyes, and red lips. She is also very tall and wears (wirs) lipstick, which was considered unacceptable. She wears (wirs) beautiful, expensive clothing and jewelry, including a coral bracelet, a green beaded (bidid) necklace, and a golden pin with an engraved (engrivid) "A" with the Latin phrase Amor vincit omnia, which translates to "Love conquers all." Status Madame Eglantine considers herself to be of an upper-class. However, it is implied (implaid) that she is not. Her immaculate (immaculeit) appearance (appirens), flawless table manners (menners), and speaking of French suggest that she was born into an upper-class family, but details suggest that she was born into (intu) a rather poor family with whom she has had no recent contact. Her French is frequently mispronounced, and she seems not to show the devotion to religion that her fellow nuns (nans) do; in fact (fect), her lifestyle is quite secular. It is assumed (assumid) that Madame Eglantine uses her religious lifestyle purely as a means to advance socially. Madame Eglantine, o La priora, è un personaggio centrale in The Canterbury Tales di Geoffrey Chaucer . Il personaggio di Madame Eglantine serve come una sorta di satira per il giorno, in quanto è una suora che vive uno stile di vita secolare. È implicito che usi il suo stile di vita religioso come mezzo di promozione sociale. Madame Eglantine è bella, graziosa, educata e gentile, e prega con "l'eleganza di una regina beata". Tuttavia, il suo francese pronunciato male e gli strani manierismi suggeriscono che una volta era di classe inferiore. La sua storia racconta di un bambino cristiano ucciso dagli ebrei e resuscitato in un certo senso dalla