The Clerk's Tale

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    Canterbury Tales Chaucer begins in the prologue talking about how one spring he was making a pilgrimage to Canterbury along with other people who were mostly strangers but he managed to fit in. He basically said that he wanted to tell us about each of the twenty nine people in this pilgrimage group. He wanted to describe what they did for a living, who they were, and what they were wearing. He started by telling us about the Knight. Each character had a little something about them that was…

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    Clerk in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales by comparing and contrasting the characters' apparent goals with the consequences of their tales' endings. At first glance, The motivations of these characters seems clear; the wife tells a tale that demonstrates woman's desire of mastery over the husband and the Clerk wants to refute her point by offering an example of a perfectly submissive wife. However, due to their awareness of their audience, they both end their tales with clarifications, as though…

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    The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is the documentation of 29 different people going on a pilgrimage. It shows the changing medieval society-taking place in England and the people coming on this journey come from all different types of shire’s and social classes. They are travelling from London to Canterbury for a spiritual journey that will bring people closer to the divine spirit and help them evolve into better people. Harry Bailey who is hosting tells the guest’s that in order to…

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    Final Paper May 12, 2017 The Clerk’s Retort to the Wife In The Wife of Bath’s Tale, the wife believes that women should have complete control over their husbands and that women should have dominance in their marriage. The Wife’s tale is somewhat of a story about feminism and how a woman determines her own happiness/life. It is easy to see how The Clerk’s Tale is a response to the Wife’s tale. In the beginning of the prologue we find out that the Clerk is repulsed by the tale of the wife.…

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    story? The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is a collection of stories put together into one narrative. In this story, the characters go on pilgrimage. While on this pilgrimage they are to tell stories, with one being the winner. In order to be the winner, the Host get to be the judge of it, your tale has to be entertaining as well as morally sound. Both “The Miller’s Tale” and “The Reeve’s Tale” tell embarrassing stories about one another. When the Miller tells his tale to all of the…

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    The Middle Ages is often portrayed as an era of strict adherence to religion and its faith-based social hierarchy. The General Prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales demonstrates the influence of this feudal system while also revealing its shortcomings, specifically concerning the unethical behavior of individuals across all classes. In his General Prologue, Chaucer uses his ironic writing style to expose an assortment of moral and behavioural flaws among the seemingly virtuous…

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    This tale is a huge contrast to the Wife of Bath tale. Unlike the Wife of Bath, this woman is willing to except that the man is one hundred percent in control of the entire relationship. In fact it was very common in the Middle Ages to have the woman protagonist go through a mental breakdown. With this tale in particular it goes through a woman who goes through the mental confliction by the man who was supposed to protect her. Griselda is supposed to represent the ideal wife. She is a faithful…

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    Her shocking, revealing story is brought home by a complex, and effective, narrative technique. Works Cited and Consulted Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. Anchor Books: New York, New York, 1985. Conboy, Sheila C. "Scripted, Conscripted, and Circumscribed: Body Language in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale." Anxious Power: Reading, Writing, and Ambivalence in Narrative by Women. Eds. Carol J. Singley and Susan Elizabeth Sweeney. Albany : State U of New York P, 1993.…

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    In The Handmaid’s Tale, Margret Atwood explores the limited freedoms available to women in the newly formed dystopian society of Gilead. The Handmaid’s Tale follows Offred, the protagonist and a Handmaid in Gilead, a society that assigns roles and divides women from one another. Gilead values women solely for their ability to fulfill certain roles assigned to them by the men. These include the ability to reproduce, and fulfill stereotypically feminine roles, such as doing housework or being a…

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    Margaret Attwood uses her gift for fictional writing to explore the powerful theme of control. She does this through the medium of The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), which won the Governor-General’s award in 1985, and the first Arthur C. Clarke award in 1987. The dystopian novel portrays a current day North America being occupied by the religious extremists the Sons of Jacob. The religious leaders that are aiming to enact its idea of a perfect world heavily control the dystopia’s population. Attwood…

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