Harry Bailey, the host, does. The challenge: each pilgrim must tell two stories on the way to Canterbury and two stories on the return trip. The person who tells the best tale will be treated to a feast hosted by other pilgrims.
What is the host’s role on the pilgrimage journey?
He is the owner of the Tabard Inn in London, where the pilgrimage begins and he agrees to travel on the pilgrimage, and promises to judge both the tales the pilgrims tell, and disputes among the pilgrims.
What does the host in The Canterbury Tales purpose?
A cheerful, friendly person, the Host focuses the pilgrims and keeps the storytelling contest from devolving into chaos. Although Chaucer narrates the events of the frame story, the Host takes charge of the contest and creates structure.
What offer does the host make to the pilgrims?
Whomever the Host decides has told the most meaningful and comforting stories will receive a meal paid for by the rest of the pilgrims upon their return. The Host also declares that he will ride with the pilgrims and serve as their guide at his own cost.
Who was the host of the pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales?
Harry Bailly
Harry Bailly, Bailly also spelled Bailey, fictional character, the genial and outspoken host of the Tabard Inn who accompanies the group of pilgrims to Canterbury in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387–1400).
What class is the host?
Class. The Host belongs to the Trade Class. In Middle England, The Host belonged to the “Elite” because he was an innkeeper.
What is the host proposal in Canterbury Tales?
The Host proposes the tale-telling game at dinner the night before the pilgrims embark for Canterbury. In the morning of the pilgrims’ departure, the Host wakes all the pilgrims up and gets them on the road. The Host has the pilgrims draw lots to decide who will go first, thus beginning the tale-telling game.
Why is the host mad at the Pardoner?
Because the Pardoner tells the Host that the Host is especially enveloped in sin, and the Pardoner says that of all the pilgrims, the Host is the one most in need of forgiveness.
What does the host ask the pilgrims to do at the conclusion of the story?
The Pardoner tells a tale in which he proves that, even though he is not a moral man, he can tell a moral tale. At the end of the tale, the Pardoner invites the pilgrims to buy relics and pardons from him and suggests that the Host should begin because he is the most sinful.
What does the host warn of in the prologue?
The Host often tries to play the role of peace-keeper among the pilgrims. He’s the one who tells the Friar to stop ribbing the Summoner, for “in company we wol have no debaat” (Friar’s Prologue 24), or warns the Manciple to stop insulting the Cook lest his insults rebound upon him.
What does the host propose to the Pilgrims to help make their journey more enjoyable?
What does the host propose to the pilgrims to help make their journey more enjoyable? Each pilgrim will tell two stories to Canterbury and two stories on the trip back to London. The winner will receive a supper paid for by the losing pilgrims.
What does the host say the winner of the contest will receive?
The winner of the contest will enjoy a meal paid for by the remaining pilgrims at the Host’s Taberd Inn.
What did the natives want from the Pilgrims?
But in return he wanted the colonists’ assistance with the Narragansett. To the Pilgrims, Massasoit’s motive for the deal was obvious: the Indian leader wanted guns. “He thinks we may be [of] some strength to him,” Winslow said later, “for our pieces [guns] are terrible to them.”
What is Chaucer’s opinion on the host?
Chaucer has a positive attitude towards The Host. The Host is portrayed as a merry-hearted, hospitable, and honest. Although The Host sets up risky conditions for the pilgrims, this does not harm Chaucer’s opinion of The Host.
What idea does the host have to pass the time while the Pilgrims travel to Canterbury?
The 29 pilgrims described in “The General Prologue,” gather at the Tabard Inn before their travels to Canterbury. To pass the time on their journey, the inn- keeper suggests a storytelling contest.
Who is the host Canterbury Tales quizlet?
Harry Bailey, the host, does. The challenge: each pilgrim must tell two stories on the way to Canterbury and two stories on the return trip. The person who tells the best tale will be treated to a feast hosted by other pilgrims.
What are the 4 types of hosts?
Types of hosts
- accidental host. a host that shelters an organism which does not usually parasitize that host.
- incidental host (a.k.a. dead-end host) a host that shelters an organism but is unable to transmit the organism to a different host.
- primary host (a.k.a. definitive/final host)
- reservoir host.
What are the three types of hosts?
Parasitic host-organism relationships. Mutualistic host-organism relationships. Commensal host-organism relationships.
What is a host described as?
noun. a person who receives or entertains guests at home or elsewhere: the host at a theater party. a master of ceremonies, moderator, or interviewer for a television or radio program.
Why do the Pardoner and host fight?
The Pardoner believes that he deserves money, so he asks the Host to pay his due. The Host declines to pay when he says, “of Christ descend upon me if I do” pay (319). The Knight then breaks up the quarrel and gets the Pardoner and the Host to kiss and resolve the fight.
What is the Pardoner is trying to achieve by challenging the host?
In any case, the Pardoner’s attempt to sell pardons to the pilgrims is a source of rancor for the Host, because, in trying to swindle the other pilgrims, the Pardoner has violated the Host’s notion of fellowship on which the storytelling pilgrimage is based. Read more about antagonists in The Canterbury Tales.