Canterbury Tales

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Billy Nevius Jimmy Tuppeny Ryan Wagner Ryan
Cooper
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The Sergeant at Law

• Physical Qualities
• Homely parti-colored coat
• Silk pinstripe belt
• Mental Qualities
• Wary, wise, discreet
• Busy, but less busy than he seemed to be
• Spiritual Qualities
• Not mentioned

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The Sergeant at Law (Cont.)

• Professional Qualities
• Sergeant at Law (Kings legal servant)
• Sixteen years experience
• Possible reasons for going on Pilgrimage
• To gain new clients
• 3 Facts
• Beggar for some of his life
• Hated people with more than he had

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The Sergeant at Law (Cont.)

• He has related tales of war and peace many times
  before
• The narrator does not like the Lawyer
• He was less busy than he seemed to be (332)
• Discreet as he was, a man to reverence, or so he
  seemed (322-323)
• Key lines
• Though there was nowhere one so busy as he, He
  was less busy than he seemed to be (331-332)

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The Sergeant at Law (Cont.)

• No one could pinch a comma from his screeds (336)
• A modern day equivalent of the Sergeant at Law is
  the stereotypical modern lawyer. They are
  extremely smart, but try to seem busier than they
  are and are not of high moral standing.

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Nun 2

• Physical Qualities.
• None mentioned.
• Mental Qualities.
• None mentioned.
• Spiritual Qualities.
• Devote Christian.
• Professional Qualities.
• She is a Nun and a member of the Clergy Group.
• Possible reason(s) for going on the pilgrimage.
• Because she followed the Prioress along with the
  three priests.

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Nun 2 (continued)

• Other information
• Her story is about St. Cecilia who lived a life
  of extreme piety.
• Her husband Valemon is unbaptized.
• He eventually converts to Christianity and is
  baptized.
• She is extremely unimportant and is only given
  two lines along with the three priests.
• Modern day equivalent of your pilgrim
• Steve Wozniak because no one really pays much
  attention to him compared to Steve Jobs and the
  Nun is not payed attention to nearly as much as
  the prioress

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Cook

• Physical Appearance
• Ulcer on his knee
• Mental Qualities
• No mentions
• Spiritual Qualities
• No Mention
• Proffesional Qualities
• Excellent Cook
• Could distinguish London Ale
• Made the best Blancmage

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The Cook (Cont.)

• Reason for going on pilgrimage
• To be healed of the STD that caused the ulcer on
  his leg.
• 3 Facts
• Very Unsanitary
• Very good cook
• Pus filled sore on his leg
• Narrators feelings
• Feels bad for him because of the sore on his leg
• Makes a gross joke about the sore on his leg

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The Cook (Cont.)

• Key lines about him
• But What a pity so it seemed to me, That he
  should have an ulcer on his knee, (Lines 395-396)
• Modern Day Equivalent
• I would compare the cook to Gordon Ramsay since
  he is such a good cook and so is the cook from
  the Canterbury tales

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Cook (Cont.)

• Prologue
• The cook was with The gulidsmen and he stood
  alone. The Cook was very good at his job and
  could cook many things as well as he could
  distinguish London Ale by taste. He could make
  the best blancmange and although a good cook he
  had one blemish and that was the ulcer on his
  knee.

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Cook (Cont.)

• Characters involved in cooks prologue
• Cook
• Guildsmen (Indirectly)
• What is being taught
• That the cook is a good man but has a fault which
  is an ulcer on his knee

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Cook (Cont.)

• Cooks Tale
• Title Explanation
• None the title did not have a name it was just
  called the cook's tale
• List of characters
• Perkin Reveller A drunken character who moves
  in with his friend who is also a drunk. (For
  certainly a revelling bond-boy...Who loves dice,
  wine, dancing, and girls of joy-) (Lines 27-28)
• Perkin's Friend- Drunk and Perkin moves in with
  him
• Friends Wife A prostitute

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Cook (Cont.)

• Genre
• The cooks tale is a fabliaux because the story
  draws real life ideas out and makes them into a
  comical tale about Perkin who is a drunk and his
  friend who's wife is a prostitute
• Satire
• This tale reveals that the cook likes to drink
  which is shown through the way that he acts when
  he gets too drunk to tell a second tale
• This tale shows us that society is very bad and
  are all drunken and like to party
• The idea of partying and being drunk is being
  satirized in this tale, The tale goes about this
  by talking about the way that Perkin lives his
  life

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Cook (Cont.)

• Summary
• The tale tells about a man named Perkin Reveller
  who is a man who likes to drink and dance. He
  was released by his master and he moves in with
  his drunken friend who has a prostitute wife
• Theme
• Drunkenness clouds peoples judgment
• Modern Day showing of this
• Charlie Sheen is a good example of a character
  that relates to the character in the cooks tale.
  This is because the tale mentions prostitutes and
  drinking which are two things that Charlie was
  heavily into.

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Works Cited

• Chaucer, Geoffrey. "Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
  presented by ELF." Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
  Presented by The Electronic Literature
  Foundation. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Oct. 2011.
  lthttp//www.canterburytales.org/canterbury_tales.h
  tmlgt

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Summoner

• Ryan Cooper

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Prologue

• The Summoners Prologue speaks negatively towards
  the Friar, and to all friars in general. Speaking
  of a tale involving a friar being taken by an
  angel. The angel shows the friar heaven, but when
  he asks if friars go to heaven, he is also show
  hell. The Summoner continues the tale, stating
  that friars end up in Satans arse.

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Character descriptions

• His job was to summon people to attend spiritual
  matter courts
• Was known as an ugly man
• A drunk
• Boils and lesions on his face
• Red faced
• Corrupt
• Spoke Latin
• Scares children

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Story Flatulence, Blasphemy, and the Emperor's
Clothes

• Continues with his hatred toward the Friar.
• The Summoner tells of a friar who starts off
  preaching and begging in Holderness, a marshy
  region of Yorkshire.
• The friar then from his sermons, went out to the
  residents houses to beg for charity for himself.
• After a while he comes upon the house of Thomas,
  where the friar stays.

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Story Continued

• Thomas is ill and has recently lost a child.
• The friar blames Thomass illness on him not
  giving the church enough money.
• Thomas enraged declares that he has given a vast
  amount of his money to a multitude of friars.
• The friar, angered, declares that the money given
  is not worth anything split among 12 of them.

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Story Continued

• Then he continues to tell three stories to Thomas
• One of a king that sentences a falsely accused
  knight to death, ending in the king sentencing
  three knights to death.
• The second, of a drunken king that shot and
  killed the son of a knight who had claimed that
  drunkenness caused a man to lose His mind, and
  his limbs' usage

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Story Continued

• The Third of a king, Cyrus, whom had a river
  destroyed because his horses had drowned in it.
• Afterwards the friar asks for a gold from Thomas
  to build their cloister and makes threats and
  guilt trips to try and push the matter.
• Extremely frustrated by the friars hierocracy,
  the tells the friar he will give a gift to the
  friar, but he must share it with the other
  friars.
• Stating that the gift is underneath him.

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Story Continued

• When the friar went to grab underneath Thomass
  rump, Thomas farted.
• Telling the friar to share that with the rest of
  the friars.
• The friar, enraged, goes to the lord of the land,
  telling of his embarrassing experience with
  Thomas and angrily asks how he is to share a fart
  with twelve.

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Story Continued.

• The lords squire suggests that the friar take a
  cartwheel and have the other friars to put their
  noses to the spokes of the cartwheel. From their
  the friar is to fart in the middle of the
  cartwheel and the smell should be carried by the
  spokes to the other friars.
• He then ends the tale as he states that they have
  almost reached town.

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Analytic questions

• The Friar and friars in general are satirized
  within this tale. The Tale in whole tells of how
  friars are evil, corrupt, people that deserve
  nothing but a fart.
• The author speaks of how the clergy was corrupt
  and greedy.
• The tale reveals that the pilgrim was a very
  offensive, mean, and not likable.

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Theme

• I believe that the Theme of the story is baed
  around revenge due to the Friars tale of
  summoners
• It revenge is sweeter far than flowing honey
  Homer

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Work Cited

• http//classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/gcha
  ucer/bl-gchau-can-sum.htm
• http//www.worldofquotes.com/topic/Revenge/1/index
  .html