Analysis of The Nun’s Priest’s Tale

By depicting pilgrims of many different classes on the same pilgrimage.

The Host, whose name is Harry Bailey, suggests that the group ride together and entertain one another with stories.

He decides that each pilgrim will tell two stories on the way to Canterbury and two on the way back.

<p>A rising swell of dissatisfaction with corruption and abuse in the Catholic Church.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Knight is chosen to tell the first tale.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Twenty-seven pilgrims are described by the narrator.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Social Satire</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Nun's Priest</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By interpreting Bible verses in her own way</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Springtime</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Canterbury</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Thomas Becket</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chaucer transposes scenes of a hero's dreaming of death and courting his lady love into the squawkings and struttings of poultry life.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chaucer parodies epic poetry by utilizing apostrophes, or formal, imploring addresses.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Most critics are divided about whether to interpret the story as a parody or as an allegory.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chanticleer's story is a tale of how we are all easily swayed by the smooth, flattering tongue of the devil, represented by the fox.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Chaucer transposes scenes of a hero courting his lady love into the poultry life, imitating the style of courtly romance.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Some scholars interpret the tale as the story of Adam and Eve's fall from grace told through the veil of a fable.</p> Signup and view all the answers