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Chaucer's the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
Criticism of the portraits in Chaucer's General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales has taken various directions : some commentators have praised the portraits primarily for their materialism, sharp individuality, adroit psychology and vividness of felt life; others, working in the genetic direction have pointed out actual historical humans who might have sat for portraits; others begging to the light of medieval sciences, have shown the portraits to be fraught with the lore of Chaucer's days and to have some typical identities like case histories.
Resemblance to the Tales of Decameron
According to W.H.Clowson, The Canterbury Tales resembles to Boccacio's Decameron in 4 ways:
?The tales are told in succession by the members of an mobilized group.
?This group is brought together by special external circumstances.
?There is narrative and conversational links between the tales.
?There is a preceding officer.
��The general tone of the framing narrative and the general topics of its tales are very similar to those of Chaucer's. [��] and in Boccaccio's apology for the impropriety of some of his stories he makes the same defense as that offered by Chaucer for the same fault --- that he must tell what happened, that the reader may skip any tale he wishes, and that such stories are purely for entertainment and are not to be taken too seriously.'
But the majority of the scholars of Chaucer believed that this interlock is not built properly. More over there is no evidence that Chaucer met Bocaccio in 1373 --- during his brief vist to Florence.
Unity in diversion in Prologue
Chaucer in his Prologue, tried to present portraits of all the ��strata' of life, but this variety is only the interior frame work which functions with the exterior circle which gives unity to all the characters. Such a unity, it may be argued, is achieved only due to the reason ( in A.W. Hoffman's words) that �� all the portraits are portraits of pilgrims': ��and pilgrims were they alle��
Treatment of ��Love�� in Prologue
Love has been treated in the prologue from the starting as a character, a matter of the body and spirit.
The note of love that is sounded in different keys ball through the portraits, such as :
The Knight : ���� he loved chivalrie����
The prioress : ���� Amor vincit omnia ����
Wife of Bath : ���� of remedies of love she knew accidental, For she koude of that craft the olde daunce��
The Pardoner : ���� com hider, love,bose in ear headphones Mobile call upgrade deals s, to me!��
The pilgrims were characterized as affected by a variety of disruptive and restorative kinds of love. Their characters and campaigns tin be described by the mixture of love that pedals them and love that shrieks and summons.
Character sketches in Prologue
According to William J. Long, ��In the prominent �� Prologue�� the poet makes us told with the various characters of his screenplay. Until Chaucer's daytime popular literature had been engaged mainly with the gods and heroes of a golden age: it had been essentially phantasmal, and so had not attempted to learn men and women as they are, or to describe them so that the reader recognizes them, not as ideal heroes,bose headphones, but as his own neighbors. Chaucer not only attempted this new naturalistic mission, but accomplished it so well that his characters were directly acknowledged as true to life'
Throwing light to another aspect of Chaucer's characterization A. Compton Rickett writes: ��[��] His human all on the move. Never do they become shadowy or lifeless. They hurrah and swear, and laugh and weep, intervene the article teller, pass compliments, and in common conduct themselves as we might expect them to in the dramatic circumstances of the chronicle. It is never possible to disturb the story teller: every is distinct and inimitable, whether it be the sermonizing Pardoner, the hot-tempered Miller, or the exuberantly vivacious Wife of Bath, who has had five husbands, but experience educating her that husbands are transient blessings, she has fixed her idea on a sixth!'
Prologue copies the accurate life: Ambiguity and Double outlook of pilgrimage
The opening begins by presenting a double view of Canterbury pilgrimage ????----- an puny declaration of a big tide of life.
This is not so as only because Chaucer sketched the varieties of another category from the human society, but likewise because of the presence of the Double View of pilgrimage in his portrait,wallabees clarks, which is also a miniature of the real social life and this one is enhanced and extended by the portraits where it appears, in one facet, as a range of motivation. This scope of motive spreads from the sacred to the secular and on to the profane. All the pilgrims are in truth acknowledged a divine motive ---- all of them are questing the shrine. But when we move to tangible motivation amid the portraits and we detect the inconsistency. The Knight and the Parson are at the inverse end of the spectrum. Same is the case of Summoned and the Pardoner.
In A.W. Hoffman's words : ��And the pilgrims who push, pushed by the thrust and painted by vows, nobody but impel and none peerless committed . and this reflect the common human paradox in real life'
William Blake's Observation : Characters of entire period
William Blake says : ��[��]The characters of Chaucer's Pilgrims are the characters which compose all ages and nations: as one age falls dissimilar mushrooms [��] [,but] we watch the same characters reiterated repeatedly and anew [��]. Names change, things never alter' and this is the special specifics of Chaucer's portraits.
And moreover what is interesting , along to Blake is : ��[��] As Newton numbered stars [��] Chaucer numbered the classes of men'.
Pattern of description of the characters in Prologue: from high to cheap ranks
The military estate is emulated by the clerical estates; the clerics by the laity; an upper navel class by a lower one; with the rogues at the end.
Further Chaucer had used the arrangement in apparently causal order of descending importance of merit. Even there is an arrangement that has moral patterns.
Personality of Chaucer
E.Talbot Donaldson intended [in his composition ��Chaucer the Pilgrim', PMLA, LXIX (1954)] that Chaucer the pilgrim was a fictional creation of Chaucer the poet, with a distinct individuality of his own which was very diverse that of his inventor. This pilgrim is an agreeable, extremely na?ve bourgeois who admires success of each variety, but especially matter success, who uncritically accepts the values of the upper class, as these are embodied in the Knight, the Prioress, the Monk and the Friar; and who recognizes virtue and wickedness only when they are thoroughly manifest.
But Jhon M. Major [ in his essay ��The Personality of Chaucer the Pilgrim', PMLA, LXXV 9June 1960)] says that there are still many things which fall out of this theory and for which ��we are forced to build a different kind of narrator from the one Professor Donaldson has represented'. ��Granted that Chaucer does employment a character in the Canterbury Tales; still, he does not employment him very consistently.[��] we consider narrator as a kind of alter ego of the poet himself, with just so many shades of difference as allow for ironic activity, no trouble is heaved by the alternating points of view. This narrator reveals himself to be, like his creator, sensitive, humorous, sophisticated, playful, tolerant, loosened, and, above all, ironic. Such a man is very well conscious of the significance of what he observes, though he may show his awareness by subtle means.[��]That real character, who is I'll say. being a fool, understands what he sees ought to be explicit from a digit of indications. Not that he is given to moralizing; Chaucer the pilgrim, like his companion the Parson, has a wide tolerance of human disability, and he can warm up to about all of his companion pilgrims, especially if they are convivial. Most of what he observes, both the good and the bad, he reports with a straight face with a muse sarcasm.'
Some important characters of The Prologue to Canterbury Tales :
The Knight and the Squire:
The Knight and Squire with the Squire's Yeoman lead the procession, as Chaucer has placed them in the first position.
William Blake says that : �� the Knight is a true hero, a good magnificent and sage man; his entire length of portrait on horseback, as written by Chaucer cannot be surpassed.' He is ��that species of character which in every age stands as the guardian of man against oppressor.'
The portraits of the Knight and the Squire have a particular interest. The relationship between these two are governed by natural one that of a father and son. Again there is a dramatic relationship between these two as each one of portrait is enhanced and defined in presence of another. For instance the long roll of Knight's campaigns and Squire's little opportunity; a series of past tenses, a history for the Knight and for the Squire breaking forth in active participles. Even appearances and dress of both are compared.
Knight's pilgrimage is more approximately a reaction to the voice of saint.
The Knight is defined in terms of his virtues (lines 45-6) and actions to defend the faith far more than by his words. Knight's fighting in battle field had a religious cause. He is the antique pattern of the chivalry of Edward- III's time.
The Nun ( Prioress)
Prioress is described as of the first rank, rich and honored. She had certain peculiarities and little delicate affections. She was accompanied by what is truly grand, polite and elegance.
Chaucer has portrayed this persona with such concern and tenderness that it is constantly commented namely Chaucer actually liked the prioress quite much, even though he satires her so gently ---- very gently. But E.T Donaldson believes that this is fair an understatement and Chaucer may not be said to be have liked her, prefer he was only charmed by her pulchritude.
Eileen Power's illustration show with what extra-ordinary capability the portrait of the Prioress is packed with abuses of typical 14th centenary nuns. Though these abuses are petty, it is clear the Prioress is everything but a perfect nun and attempts to white bathe her.
It has been argued that Chaucer's appreciation for the Prioress as sort of heroine of courtly romance actually due to Chaucer's sophisticated living, where he cared little whether amiable nuns are good and this sophistication permits itself to babble superlatives.
Anyway Prioress's very presence in the pilgrimage, as many point out, is the very first satiric touch. In the case of Prioress blemish is sufficiently technical to have only faint satiric coloring. But this places her at a spot in the sequence --- at one end --- in which more obviously blemished Monk and friar appear.
In the portrait of the Prioress the double view of pilgrimage appears both in ambiguities in the surface and in an implied internal range of motivation.
In the surface there is a name Eglentyne --- means romance --- and ��simple and coy' is a romance formula, but she is a nun. There are coral beads and green gauds, --- a religious emblem. What shall be taken as principal? Are her courtly manners or her dedication at divine service explains her? And on the front of motivation, the perfect explanation lies in the lines of A.W.Hoffman : ��There is such an impure but blameless mixture as Prioress ��'. Deficiency of knowledge may be remedied (which caused due to Chaucer's attempt to make more gentle criticism on the Prioress). It is because, as many believe, Chaucer has a sister or a daughter who was a nun.
Prioress is the character who is base to be pre-dominating in some ages. William Blake has inspected that ��The characters of women Chaucer has divided into 2 classes, the Lady Prioress and Wife of Bath. Are not these chairmen of the ages of men? The lady Prioress in some ages predominates; and in some the wife of Bath, in whose character Chaucer has been equally minute and exact because she is a scourge and blight'.
Wife of bath
William Blake has observed that ��The characters of women Chaucer has divided into two classes, the Lady Prioress and Wife of Bath. Are not these leaders of the ages of men? The lady Prioress in some ages predominates; and in some the wife of Bath, in whose character Chaucer has been equally minute and exact because she is a scourge and blight'.
The main features of her character are common-sense and pre-occupation with ######, and an important element in Prologue is her desire to unravel life in terms of her values. For instance: ��She is ambitioning to confess, for her convention's sake that chastity is the ideal state. But it is not her ideal.
In prologue, she explains her five husbands.
She was a good woman but unfortunately rather deaf. The deafness is a significant detail --- the result of a blow from her fifth husband.
In medieval methodology and law, biblical in origin, the man is the pate of the woman, and should be obeyed. The Wife, although, is not receptive to this doctrine, and her deafness is the symbolic of this unwillingness to hear. Physical characteristics in her portrait have a moral import. Other such characteristics in case of Wife of Bath are the retinue. The Wife is a gate-toothed. Medieval students of physiology held that to have teeth widely spaced was a sign of boldness, falseness, gluttony and lasciviousness. The Wife nativity under Venus (who was not angel) greeting it as confirmation of venereal nature. Her ��gate-teeth' gave her many opportunities to wander off the road.
The Wife's portrait begins with a criterion trait of the awful women, whom bookkeepers in the Middle Ages liked the same access as the wives of the Guilds males (lines 376-8). This liking for display is cleverly combined by Chaucer with her calling (cloth-making). Her stockings are scarlet and firm laced, and her shoes are ��moisten and newel��. She is accordingly the scarlet matron, whom preachers against petticoat pretension love to dislike. But this is Chaucerian as she is both ######ually attractive and in the meantime ridiculously over wore.
The Wife turns out to be the monster of anti feminist comedy --- aggressive,tory burch handbags, nagging, gossiping, lustful and wasteful. Yet she is not unattractive.
Apart from five husbands and other youthful company we are told that she had passed ��many a strange strum��. Then : ��Of remedies of love she knew per chance
For she koud of that art the olde daunce��
(lines 475-6)
The ��remedies' and ��olde daunce' do not suggest virtue. All in all she is quite contract to the chastity, modesty and refinement of the Prioress.
Criticism of the portraits in Chaucer's General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales has taken various directions : some critics have praised the portraits especially for their realism, sharp individuality, adroit psychology and vividness of felt life; others, working in the genetic direction have pointed out actual historical persons who might have sat for portraits; others agreeable to the light of medieval sciences, have shown the portraits to be filled with the lore of Chaucer's days and to have some typical identities like case histories.
Resemblance to the Tales of Decameron
According to W.H.Clowson, The Canterbury Tales resembles to Boccacio's Decameron in 4 ways:
?The tales are told in succession by the members of an organized group.
?This group is brought together by special external circumstances.
?There is narrative and conversational links between the tales.
?There is a preceding commander.
��The general tone of the framing narrative and the general topics of its tales are very alike to those of Chaucer's. [��] and in Boccaccio's penance for the impropriety of some of his stories he makes the same defense as that offered by Chaucer for the same mistake --- that he have to narrate what happened, that the reader may bounce any tale he wishes, and that such stories are purely for distraction and are not to be taken too seriously.'
But a heap of the scholars of Chaucer believed that this link is not established properly. More over there is no evidence that Chaucer met Bocaccio in 1373 --- during his brief vist to Florence.
Unity in diversion in Prologue
Chaucer in his Prologue, tried to present portraits of all the ��strata' of life, but this variety is only the inner skeleton go which functions with the exterior surround which gives consensus to all the characters. Such a consensus, it may be debated, is fulfilled only due to the cause ( in A.W. Hoffman's words) that �� all the portraits are portraits of pilgrims': ��and pilgrims were they alle��
Treatment of ��Love�� in Prologue
Love has been treated in the prologue from the opening as a character, a matter of the body and spirit.
The note of love that is sounded in different keys ball via the portraits, such as :
The Knight : ���� he loved chivalrie����
The prioress : ���� Amor vincit omnia ����
Wife of Bath : ���� of remedies of love she knew perchance, For she koude of that art the olde daunce��
The Pardoner : ���� com hider, love, to me!��
The pilgrims were represented as affected by a variety of destructive and restorative kinds of love. Their characters and movements can be described by the mixture of love that drives them and love that calls and summons.
Character sketches in Prologue
According to William J. Long, ��In the famous �� Prologue�� the poet makes us acquainted with the various characters of his drama. Until Chaucer's day popular literature had been busy chiefly with the gods and heroes of a golden age: it had been essentially romantic, and so had never attempted to study men and women as they are, or to describe them so that the reader recognizes them, not as ideal heroes, but as his own neighbors. Chaucer not only attempted this new realistic task,supra tk, but accomplished it so well that his characters were instantly recognized as true to life'
Throwing light to another aspect of Chaucer's characterization A. Compton Rickett writes: ��[��] His people always on the move. Never do they become shadowy or lifeless. They shout and swear, and laugh and weep, interrupt the story teller, pass compliments, and in general behave themselves as we might expect them to in the dramatic circumstances of the narrative. It is never possible to confuse the story teller: each is distinct and inimitable, whether it be the sermonizing Pardoner, the hot-tempered Miller, or the exuberantly vivacious Wife of Bath, who has had five husbands, but experience teaching her that husbands are transient blessings, she has firm her mind on a sixth!'
Prologue copies the exact life: Ambiguity and Double view of pilgrimage
The prologue begins by presenting a double view of Canterbury pilgrimage ????----- one tiny manifestation of a huge tide of life.
This is not so as only because Chaucer sketched the varieties of different species from the human society, but also because of the presence of the Double View of pilgrimage in his portrait,christian louboutin platform Fendi Spy Gold-Silver_3918, which is also a miniature of the real social life and this one is enhanced and extended by the portraits where it appears, in one aspect, as a range of motivation. This range of motive spreads from the sacred to the secular and on to the profane. All the pilgrims are in fact granted a sacred motive ---- all of them are seeking the shrine. But when we move to actual motivation among the portraits and we find the difference. The Knight and the Parson are at the opposite end of the spectrum. Same is the case of Summoned and the Pardoner.
In A.W. Hoffman's words : ��And the pilgrims who move, pushed by the impulse and drawn by vows, none merely impel and none perfectly committed . and this reflect the common human ambiguity in real life'
William Blake's Observation : Characters of all time
William Blake says : ��[��]The characters of Chaucer's Pilgrims are the characters which compose all ages and nations: as one age falls another rises [��] [,but] we see the same characters repeated again and again [��]. Names alter, asset never alter' and this is the special characteristics of Chaucer's portraits.
And moreover what is interesting , according to Blake is : ��[��] As Newton numbered stars [��] Chaucer numbered the classes of men'.
Pattern of description of the characters in Prologue: from high to low ranks
The military estate is followed by the clerical estates; the clerics by the laity; an upper middle class by a lower one; with the rascals at the end.
Further Chaucer had used the preparation in evidently causal order of descending magnitude of value. Even there is an preparation that has moral patterns.
Personality of Chaucer
E.Talbot Donaldson proposed [in his essay ��Chaucer the Pilgrim', PMLA, LXIX (1954)] that Chaucer the pilgrim was a fictional creation of Chaucer the poet, with a distinct personality of his own which was very unlike that of his creator. This pilgrim is an amiable, exceedingly na?ve bourgeois who admires success of every kind, but especially material success, who uncritically accepts the values of the upper class, as these are embodied in the Knight, the Prioress, the Monk and the Friar; and who recognizes virtue and wickedness only when they are thoroughly obvious.
But Jhon M. Major [ in his essay ��The Personality of Chaucer the Pilgrim', PMLA, LXXV 9June 1960)] says that there are still many things which fall out of this theory and for which ��we are forced to construct a different kind of narrator from the one Professor Donaldson has represented'. ��Granted that Chaucer does employ a persona in the Canterbury Tales; still, he does not employ him very consistently.[��] we think narrator as a kind of alter ego of the poet himself, with just so many shades of difference as allow for ironic play, no difficulty is raised by the alternating points of view. This narrator reveals himself to be, like his creator, perceptive, witty, sophisticated, playful, tolerant, biased, and, at the outset, ironic. Such a man is very well aware of the significance of what he observes, though he may show his awareness by subtle means.[��]That real persona, who is in no way being a fool, understands what he sees ought to be clear from a number of indications. Not that he is given to moralizing; Chaucer the pilgrim, like his companion the Parson, has a wide tolerance of human weakness, and he can warm up to almost all of his fellow pilgrims, especially if they are convivial. Most of what he observes, both the good and the bad, he reports with a straight face with a deliberate irony.'
Some essential characters of The Prologue to Canterbury Tales :
The Knight and the Squire:
The Knight and Squire with the Squire's Yeoman lead the procession, as Chaucer has placed them in the first location.
William Blake says that : �� the Knight is a true hero, a good great and wise man; his whole length of portrait on horseback, as written by Chaucer cannot be surpassed.' He is ��that species of character which in every age stands as the guardian of man against oppressor.'
The portraits of the Knight and the Squire have a particular amuse. The relationship among these two are governed by normal one that of a dad and son. Again there is a dramatic relationship among these two as each one of portrait is enhanced and defined in presence of another. For instance the long coil of Knight's campaigns and Squire's little chance; a catena of elapse tenses, a history for the Knight and for the Squire destroying forth in active participles. Even outwards and dress of both are likened.
Knight's pilgrimage is more nearly a response to the voice of saint.
The Knight is defined in terms of his virtues (lines 45-6) and operations to protect the belief distant more than by his words. Knight's fighting in war field had a religious cause. He is the ancient pattern of the chivalry of Edward- III's time.
The Nun ( Prioress)
Prioress is depicted as of the 1st position, rich and gloried. She had certain peculiarities and tiny slight affections. She was accompanied by what is really grand, respectful and grace.
Chaucer has portrayed this character with such care and tenderness that it is often remarked that Chaucer really liked the prioress very many, even though he satires her so gently ---- very gently. But E.T Donaldson believes that this is just an understatement and Chaucer may not be said to be have liked her, rather he was only charmed by her beauty.
Eileen Power's illustration show with what extra-ordinary skill the portrait of the Prioress is packed with abuses of typical 14th century nuns. Though these abuses are petty, it is clear the Prioress is anything but a perfect nun and attempts to white wash her.
It has been argued that Chaucer's appreciation for the Prioress as arrange of heroine of courtly romance really due to Chaucer's sophisticated living, where he cared little whether amiable nuns are good and this sophistication permits itself to prattle superlatives.
Anyway Prioress's very presence in the pilgrimage, as many point out, is the very first satiric touch. In the case of Prioress blemish is sufficiently technical to have only faint satiric coloring. But this locations her at a spot in the sequence --- at one end --- in which more apparently blemished Monk and friar emerge.
In the portrait of the Prioress the double view of pilgrimage appears both in ambiguities in the surface and in an implied inner range of motivation.
In the surface there is a name Eglentyne --- method thriller --- and ��simple and coy' is a romance formula, yet she is a nun. There are coral beads and green gauds, --- a religious emblem. What shall be taken as headmaster? Are her courtly courtesy alternatively her dedication at heavenly service explains her? And above the front of motivation, the faultless explanation lies in the lines of A.W.Hoffman : ��There is such an impure but blameless mixture for Prioress ��'. Deficiency of knowledge may be remedied (which occasioned deserving to Chaucer's venture to make more moderate critique ashore the Prioress). It is for, as numerous trust, Chaucer has a sister alternatively a daughter who was a nun.
Prioress is the character who is found to be pre-dominating in some ages. William Blake has observed that ��The characters of women Chaucer has divided into two classes, the Lady Prioress and Wife of Bath. Are not these leaders of the ages of men? The lady Prioress in some ages predominates; and in some the wife of Bath, in whose character Chaucer has been equally minute and exact because she is a scourge and blight'.
Wife of bath
William Blake has observed that ��The characters of women Chaucer has divided into two classes, the Lady Prioress and Wife of Bath. Are not these leaders of the ages of men? The lady Prioress in some ages predominates; and in some the wife of Bath, in whose character Chaucer has been equally minute and exact because she is a scourge and blight'.
The main features of her character are common-sense and pre-occupation with ######, and an important element in Prologue is her desire to explain life in terms of her values. For instance: ��She is compliant to admit, for her convention's sake that chastity is the ideal state. But it is not her ideal.
In prologue, she explains her five husbands.
She was a agreeable woman but unfortunately rather deaf. The deafness is a premonitory detail --- the result of a beat from her fifth husband.
In medieval theory and law, biblical in origin, the man is the head of the woman, and should be obeyed. The Wife, however, is not receptive to this doctrine, and her deafness is the symbolic of this unwillingness to listen. Physical characteristics in her portrait have a moral import. Other such characteristics in case of Wife of Bath are the following. The Wife is a gate-toothed. Medieval students of physiology held that to have teeth widely spaced was a sign of boldness, falseness, gluttony and lasciviousness. The Wife born under Venus (who was not saint) regards it as confirmation of venereal nature. Her ��gate-teeth' gave her many opportunities to wander off the road.
The Wife's portrait begins with a standard feature of the dreadful women,beat headphones, whom clerks in the Middle Ages liked the same way as the wives of the Guilds men (lines 376-8). This liking for display is cleverly combined by Chaucer with her profession (cloth-making). Her stockings are scarlet and tight laced, and her shoes are ��moisten and newel��. She is thus the scarlet woman, whom preachers against female vanity love to hate. But this is Chaucerian as she is both ######ually attractive and in the meantime ridiculously over dressed.
The Wife turns out to be the demon of anti feminist comedy --- aggressive, nagging, gossiping, wanton and prodigal. Yet she is not unattractive.
Apart from five husbands and other youthful company we are told that she had passed ��many a curious strum��. Then : ��Of remedies of love she knew per chance
For she koud of that art the olde daunce��
(lines 475-6)
The ��remedies' and ��olde daunce' do not recommend virtue. All in all she is very contract to the chastity, modesty and refinement of the Prioress.