Canterbury Tales Essay
The Sergeant of Law has one of the best or at least one of the better tales out of all the stories in the Canterbury Tales. His story follows a woman and her ability and will to keep faith through certain hardships where it could be questioned. Out of all the stories this is one that seemed to really tale a tale all from the imagination, with a meaning. Other tales had bashed other members of the travel party, or had just been hypocritical to the story teller and their ways of life.
The Sergeant of Law’s tale follows a young girl, who many men lust for, and due to her Christian faith it causes issues between her many lovers and her lovers families as they follow different faiths. Though her faith is threatened and tested many times throughout the tale, she remains strong in it, believing "But Crist, that starf for our redempcion / So yeve me grace his heestes to fulfille” which pretty much means that, since christ had the strength to die for our sins, she must fulfill whatever the lord throws her way, and she asks for the strength to be able to do so. This central idea as well as the story the Sergeant of Law told as a whole really tells a tale, and makes it somewhat entertaining, while a majority of the other …show more content…
The Wife of Bath’s talking down on knights, though the knight in her tale definitely deserved what he got, then the Friar and Summoners tales both just make each other look bad. Besides that some tales are flat and boring, as i mentioned a chore to get through, a good example of that being the Parson’s tale. Though not all besides the Sergeant of Law’s were boring, such as The Pardoner, who told a good story with a good moral, but its ironic and hypocritical for him to tell it. Other tales can just be seen as wrong, weird, or even
The Sergeant of Law has one of the best or at least one of the better tales out of all the stories in the Canterbury Tales. His story follows a woman and her ability and will to keep faith through certain hardships where it could be questioned. Out of all the stories this is one that seemed to really tale a tale all from the imagination, with a meaning. Other tales had bashed other members of the travel party, or had just been hypocritical to the story teller and their ways of life.
The Sergeant of Law’s tale follows a young girl, who many men lust for, and due to her Christian faith it causes issues between her many lovers and her lovers families as they follow different faiths. Though her faith is threatened and tested many times throughout the tale, she remains strong in it, believing "But Crist, that starf for our redempcion / So yeve me grace his heestes to fulfille” which pretty much means that, since christ had the strength to die for our sins, she must fulfill whatever the lord throws her way, and she asks for the strength to be able to do so. This central idea as well as the story the Sergeant of Law told as a whole really tells a tale, and makes it somewhat entertaining, while a majority of the other …show more content…
The Wife of Bath’s talking down on knights, though the knight in her tale definitely deserved what he got, then the Friar and Summoners tales both just make each other look bad. Besides that some tales are flat and boring, as i mentioned a chore to get through, a good example of that being the Parson’s tale. Though not all besides the Sergeant of Law’s were boring, such as The Pardoner, who told a good story with a good moral, but its ironic and hypocritical for him to tell it. Other tales can just be seen as wrong, weird, or even