Why are the travelers going to Canterbury? They are on a pilgrimage to visit the healing waters of Aquinas. Why do people go on a pilgrimage to Canterbury? During the Middle Ages thousands of pilgrims came on a journey to Canterbury each year to visit the shrine of Thomas Becket to pray and seek help …
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He doesn’t wish for the patient to get better he just hopes they do so he can get more money. A satirical device used here would be situational irony, this is because you would think a doctor would care about his patients, and would want his clients to get better. All, he wants is the …
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The Host. The Host decides to accompany the pilgrims to Canterbury and serve as the judge of the tales. The Host at the inn, Harry Bailey, suggests that, to make the trip to Canterbury pass more pleasantly, each member of the party tell two tales on the journey to Canterbury and and serve as the …
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The opening passage ofThe Canterbury Talesdescribes the season ofspring, and when the season comes, according to the narrator they saythat the people want to go on a pilgrimage. What season is described in the opening passage of Canterbury Tales? The opening lines of the Canterbury Tales constitute a learned version of the “reverdi,” a simple …
The Ellesmere manuscript, an illustrated medieval manuscript of The Canterbury Tales, depicts the Cook as being slightly rotund, with dark skin and hair. He wears a hat and an apron, but doesn’t appear to have much covering his legs in the Ellesmere painting. What did Chaucer say about the Cook? Unfortunately, though, the Cook has …
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Description. The Doctor, dressed in his blood-red garments slashed with bluish-grey, lone with taffeta (silk). The Doctor is a very knowledgeable man during this time, which happens to be Medieval England, 1066 A.D. to 1485 A.D. How is the Physician described in The Canterbury Tales? Like the Franklin, whose tale precedes his, the Physician is …
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Why is the Narrator on his journey? He is on a religious pilgrimage. Why is the Pardoner going to Canterbury? Since visiting relics on pilgrimage had become a tourist industry, the Pardoner wants to cash in on religion in any way he can, and he does this by selling tangible, material objects—whether slips of paper …
the Miller. Stout and brawny, the Miller has a wart on his nose and a big mouth, both literally and figuratively. He threatens the Host’s notion of propriety when he drunkenly insists on telling the second tale. Who has a wart on his nose in the Canterbury Tales? the MillerIn Chaucer’s tale, the Miller is …
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With broad hips, a big butt, and a hat as big as a boat, she takes up a lot of space in the pilgrimage and in the poem as a whole. The Wife is dressed expensively in scarlet stockings and shoes of soft, new leather, and she has a penchant for fine, large headgear that …
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The prologue to The Canterbury Tales provides an introduction. The prologue opens in the month of April sometime in the late 14th century, presumably the 1380s when Chaucer penned his tales. Picture the Tabard Inn in Southwark, a suburb of London. What month does the prologue begin in Canterbury Tales? AprilIn The Canterbury Tales General …
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