This metaphorical similarity between Saint Nicholas and the Virgin Mary casts Christians as being realistic, moral, guiltless and acquitted from any wrongdoing. They are known as being mainly innocent, with little to no knowledge on being able to sin against God and his word. Christians in The Prioress’s Tale sustain a categorical, spiritual following for the Virgin Mary. They all worship her:
And is this song maked in reverence Of Cristes mooder?” seyde this innocent.
Now, certes, I wol do my diligence
To konne it al er Cristemasse be went.
Though that I for my prymer shal be shent
And shal be beten thries in an houre,
I wol it konne Oure Lady for to honoure! (537-543).
Along with the two young males present in this tale, Christians …show more content…
“The term
“singing candles” designates those candles created for use during the celebration of the Mass”
(Oliver 361). Both the prologue and tale belonging to the Prioress are filled with references to singing songs. This routinely advocates a distinct association between the “greyn,” which permits the young boy to sing the Alma Redemptoris Mater and songs correlated in the Catholic
Church.
Further, the presence and purpose of apostrophes in The Prioress’ Tale better …show more content…
Certainly, the prologue of the Prioress’s Tale considered as a prayer itself. The Prioress’s preface, which already incorporates parts of Psalms, contains great amounts of piety and devotion, extoling God as a devout leader and asking and petitioning the Virgin Mary for her grace before proceeding to tell her tale. The Prioress praises the Virgin as well, extoling her and categorizing her as the “whitest Lily- flower.” Apostrophes present in the prologue help to define the speaker as being greatly enraptured by the thought of God’s and the Virgin Mary’s name. “Lady, thy bountee, thy magnificence, / Thy vertu and thy grete humylitee / Right so fare I, and therfore I yow preye, / Gydeth my song that I shal of yow seye” (Chaucer 474-475, and 486-487).
Chaucer’s broad description of a female nun, Madame Eglantine, in his General
Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, further explains his satirical purpose of The Prioress’s
And is this song maked in reverence Of Cristes mooder?” seyde this innocent.
Now, certes, I wol do my diligence
To konne it al er Cristemasse be went.
Though that I for my prymer shal be shent
And shal be beten thries in an houre,
I wol it konne Oure Lady for to honoure! (537-543).
Along with the two young males present in this tale, Christians …show more content…
“The term
“singing candles” designates those candles created for use during the celebration of the Mass”
(Oliver 361). Both the prologue and tale belonging to the Prioress are filled with references to singing songs. This routinely advocates a distinct association between the “greyn,” which permits the young boy to sing the Alma Redemptoris Mater and songs correlated in the Catholic
Church.
Further, the presence and purpose of apostrophes in The Prioress’ Tale better …show more content…
Certainly, the prologue of the Prioress’s Tale considered as a prayer itself. The Prioress’s preface, which already incorporates parts of Psalms, contains great amounts of piety and devotion, extoling God as a devout leader and asking and petitioning the Virgin Mary for her grace before proceeding to tell her tale. The Prioress praises the Virgin as well, extoling her and categorizing her as the “whitest Lily- flower.” Apostrophes present in the prologue help to define the speaker as being greatly enraptured by the thought of God’s and the Virgin Mary’s name. “Lady, thy bountee, thy magnificence, / Thy vertu and thy grete humylitee / Right so fare I, and therfore I yow preye, / Gydeth my song that I shal of yow seye” (Chaucer 474-475, and 486-487).
Chaucer’s broad description of a female nun, Madame Eglantine, in his General
Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, further explains his satirical purpose of The Prioress’s