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The power of positivity
"Be the change you wish to see in the world." ~ Gandhi
I read “The Prioress’ Tale.” This tale satirizes the hypocrisy of religions. The Jews were angry that the child was singing O Alma Redemptoris because it dishonored their religion. So—because of religious reasons—they hired a murderer to kill a seven year old child. It’s ridiculous, paradoxical, and provides an example of the duplicity of religious values; that they'll dishonor their own religion so that someone else doesn't.
ReplyDelete~Jaime Trudel~
I read "The Pardoner's Tale." This tale explains why greed is the root of all evil. His tale shows the disastrous effects of greed. All the vices he lists in the beginning: gluttony, drunkenness, gambling, and swearing are faults that he has displayed to the other pilgrims. According to his custom, he tells the pilgrims the value of his relics and asks for contributions, even though he has just told them the relics are fake. He offers the Host the first chance to come forth and kiss the relics, since the Host is clearly the most enveloped in sin. The Host is outraged and proposes to make a relic out of the Pardoner’s genitals, but the Knight calms everybody down.
ReplyDelete-Kelly Myers
I read "The Nun's Priest's Tale." This tale is satirizing how we do not believe that dreams can come true. This story is about a few people or animals (like the rooster) and how they have dreams and tell someone about them. The people they tell do not believe them and then that dream actually happens the next day. It shows how maybe we should trust people more in their stories.
ReplyDeleteI read "The Miller's Tale." I believe that Chaucer is satirizing both the ordinary male and female. He is satirizing the typical working class male by saying that they are too stupid to know what is going on behind their backs. Chaucer is also satirizing the regular middle class female by saying that they usually underestimate males and think that they will never get caught in what they do.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with Jaime Trudel. I didn't read "The Prioress' Tale," but I do know that people will often forget their religion momentarilly because somebody else isn't following. You can't force somebody to change their beliefs, no matter how hard you try, and trying to make everybody in the world similar is a terrible thing to do, because everybody knows how that turned how with Hitler and the Holocaust.
ReplyDeleteI chose to read the Prioress’ Tale. Her tale satirizes the foolishness of religion. In the story, one religion felt violated, so they chose murder as the resolution. However, murder is not a very righteous act in that religion. The tale hypocritically shows how certain religions may ridicule others, but in reality their own religion could be derided just as easily.
ReplyDeletei read "The Millers Prologue and Tale." This tale is satirizing how people are oblivious to things that happen around them and how people are too trusting of one another. The story is about how a woman has an affair with man who is friends with her husband, and they spend the night together in her husbands bed while her husband is still not far away at all.
ReplyDeleteI read "The Miller Tale" This tale is satirizing about how easily people can change their minds. In the tale there is a person named Nicholas and he sneak up on a girl named Alison and grabs her. At first she was scared and wanted to scream for help but Nicholas started to cry and before you know it, she agreed to sleep with him. This shows how quickly peoples moods change and how they react to different situations.
ReplyDelete-Stephanie Bohr-
I read the Millers Tale. In this prologue and tale, Chaucer satirizes social ranks and stereotypical behaviors of certain people. The Host is trying to choose people to tell stories by social rank, but the Miller is drunk and demands that he tell his story. Chaucer exaggerates the ridiculous thoughts of the Miller, and satirizes the fact that he is always drunk, loud and at times inappropriate. The tale the Miller tells is about a student named Nicholas who wants a girl named Alisoun. The whole story tells about their crazy plan to be alone so they can sleep together. The story is just focused on sex, which is typical of a drunk average guy. Chaucer makes fun of drunken men, social ranks, and men only thinking of sex.
ReplyDelete-Bethany Puniello
I also read "The Nun's Priest's Tale." In this tale, Chaucer is satirizing the way egotistical men will act and be deceived by flattery. The rooster is flattered by the fox and then captured and almost killed. To save his own life, he tells the fox to brag about his capture to the pursuing barnyard animals. When the fox opens his mouth, the rooster flies into a near by tree. The fox tries to flatter the bird into coming down, but the rooster is wise enough to not fall for the fox's trickery again. He tells the fox that flattery will not work again. The rooster was very proud and believed that everyone should praise him so when a predator flattered him, he was blinded of the fact that the fox was a threat and not in awe of him.
ReplyDelete~Sam Burke
I read "The Monk's Tale" for the selected reading. In this tale the monk is urged to tell a happy tale but the monk gives a series of tragedies discussing how the characters in his tale were dealt with privileges but fortune turned their fate negatively. This satirizes how in our society many people that are slightly advantaged take far too much for granted. It shows how people must take advantage of what they have, and constantly improve yourself and make everything better, because you never know what could happen if fate plays a role.
ReplyDelete-ray
The story that I read was the Monk's tale. This tale satirizes the notion that people of a high position or ranking can have their world crash down on them so quickly and abruptly. The story that the Monk shares is the story of Ugolino, Count of Pisa, who was accused falsely by Roger, the Bishop of Pisa, and consequently thrown into a prison with his three children. Ugolino used to be of a very high ranking, but he ended up dying of starvation at the end of the tale. I think that Chaucer is trying to teach the reader to appreciate life and avoid taking it for granted.
ReplyDelete-Val Stickles
I also read the "The Nun's Priest tale" I, however, believe that what this tale is satirizing is persons who have bloated egos and how it can often get them into trouble. In this tale is about a very attractive rooster who has a dream he will be killed by an orange beast. He tells his hen-wife this and she dismisses him, but soon after, a sly fox lures the rooster with praise and flattery. His pride almost makes him lose his life. The tale is showing how much pride can actually damage your being, and how a bloated ego will get you into a lot of trouble rather than being humble.
ReplyDeleteI chose to read the Miller’s tale. Chaucer first raises this idea in his Prologue, arguing that a man shouldn’t take it upon himself to assume that his wife is unfaithful. In the Miller’s Tale, John jealously tries to control his young wife, which drives her to another man. This is satirizing the fact that people can be too controlling in society which causes problems they are afraid of happening to happen. In addition, John repeats the caution against prying into “God’s pryvetee.” “God’s pryvetee” is God’s secrets. Several times, John scolds Nicholas for trying to know “God’s pryvetee,” but when Nicholas actually offers to let John in on his secret, John jumps at the chance. Obviously Nicholas made up this “secret.” Another time, the clerk asks for a kiss from Alisoun. Alisoun instead puts her butt out the window and he kisses that. This is satirizing the fact that people can be too gullible. Both satires have to do with trust issues. The first is not trusting in others enough and the second is trusting in others too much. This mocks that society’s judgment is inaccurate in deciphering lies and truths.
ReplyDeleteI read the "Nun's Priest's Tale." The tale satirizes how gullible people are, because both Chanticleer and the Wolf were swayed to do something that wasn't good for them. The story of Chanticleer also satirizes Epics, such as Beowulf. The way the tale satirizes epics is that it uses parts of epics, exaggerated descriptions, a love interest, and foreshadowing of death, while taking place in a farm setting.
ReplyDeleteI chose to read "The Pardoner's Tale". This tale satires hypocrisy and sins. The Pardoner preaches through his stories about gluttony, greed, and of sinful activities. He is a hypocrit because he himself has experienced the sins he continuously preaches against.
ReplyDeleteI read "The Pardoners Tale". In this tale The Pardoners occupation is itinerant preaching and selling promises of salvation. His topic of choice for his sermons are usually consistant: "greed is the root of all evil". His congregations are very similar, he speaks about his relics and then later on readily admits to his pilgrims that they are fake. The Pardoner satirizes church officials and their facade they put on for their audience. They make the faithful church go-ers believe they are saintly and trustworthy when actually they are exactly what they're preaching against.
ReplyDeleteI read "The Pardoners Tale". This story is satirizing the things that men will do out of greed and the fools they make of themselves when drinking. In the tale, three men are drunk and they go out to find and slay "Death" as if death were a person. This makes them look like fools. Then, the three men find a large amount of money and suddenly they turn against each other and are willing to kill the other two in order to get more of the treasure for himself. In the end, all three of the men die due to their greed and selfishness. This is satirizing the fact that men value money more than they do friendship and it also shows why greed is such an evil sin.
ReplyDeleteI read the Miller's Tale. The miller interupts the monk and begins his crude tale. The tale is about a cleric who is jealous of a carpenter's wife. He satirizes that religious people are just as human, and have sexual desires, as anyone else.
ReplyDelete-Kodi Doane
I read "The Nun's Priest's Tale." Chaucer is satirizing the fact that the rooster has a dream about his own murder, and no one believes him even when he explains with other stories of men who had gone throught the same thing. And of course the next day it happens.
ReplyDeleteI decided to read "The Miller tale" in this tale is about a man named Nicholas who loves art. He falls in love with carpenters named John's 18 year old wife, whom he was very possessive of. One day when the carpenter leaves Nicholas decided to flirt with Alisoun. At first she is frighten and cries instantly for help, but after only Nicholas says a few nice and sweet things to her agrees to sleep with him. This causes throughout the story people to fight over this young girl. John, Nicholas, and a new man begains to love her to. His name was Absolon. This man fight to gain her love and Nicholas wins that love. They begin to create a master plan to get rid of Absolon and John, including showing Absolon Nicholas's rear, and lying to John so that the couple of Nicholas and Alisoun could run away to sleep together. I feel that Chaucer is satirizing the fact that not all men or woman can be trustworthy, and that people will do whatever it takes for love including showing people you rear and ending in getting it burned and also lying to the woman in which you love's husband just to gain her love.
ReplyDeleteI read the Miller's Tale and it is satirizing the trust that people have for one another. Nicholas tells the landlord that a flood is going to come according to the prophecy in the bible and that they should save themselves by hanging above the rafters in tubes. He actually believed him because of his trust for him. This tale also shows that you can’t escape prophecies that are made about you. It was said that the landlord was a mad man but he didn’t seem it until the end when he cut his tube and fell and broke his arm.
ReplyDelete*Nicole Bernier*
I read the Miller's tale from the Canterbury Tales and i noticed the satire that was created in this tale. There was tension that was present between the different socail classes. Chaucer is ridiculing how there is tension between people and how not everyone can get along in society. Satire is also present in this story how people seem to be steroytipical. Chaucer does a good job in showing satire in society in general and how people act.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I didn’t read the pardoners tale, I agree with Kelly that greed is the root of all evil. When someone wants something so bad they will go to all ends of the earth to get it. If no one wanted anything then when something happened they wouldn’t judge it because they wouldn’t have known if it was good or bad. Usually when someone is greedy someone usually gets hurt which just shows that evil is made from greed.
ReplyDelete*Nicole Bernier*
Um, I wasn't sure if I was suppose to do two blogs becasue there was only one question... but since I couldn't get on here I wasn't able to anyways. But now I can since my internet is fixed.
ReplyDeleteAnyways, I agree with Jaime's response because they are basically doing something immoral (forgetting about their own religion) because someone else is praising his/her religion. Thet are almost sort of jealous because he is showing how much he loves his religion, when (even though it doesn't say this we can infer) that other's of the Jewish religion are not.
-Jamie
In the Canterbury Tales I interpreted “The Pardoners Tale". This story is satirizing the actions that men take when greed controls them. In most cases they make complete idiots out of themselves when they are consuming alcohol in great amounts. Throughout this tale there are three grown men, who are completely intoxicated, and they go out to kill death, they refer to death as if it is something that is tangible. This idea not only makes them seem as if they are dumb fools, but they also seem deranged. As if the three men are not crazy enough, they find some money, and become extremely greedy and are willing to murder one another just so they can have more money for themselves. This is satirizing the reality that the most important thing is money to men, and friendship does not matter at all to them, especially if it gets in the way of them making more money, therefore benefiting them and not the well being of the people around them.
ReplyDelete~ Brittany Strycharz