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Canterbury

            The Clerk's Tale is an indirect response to the Wife of Bath who .
             stated that women desire complete sovereignty over their .
             husbands and lovers. The Clerk puts forth a diametrically .
             opposite view and draws the sketch of a totally submissive .
             woman. .
             Chaucer's source for the Clerk's tale is Petrarch's "Fable of .
             Obedience and Wifely Faith" written in Latin that was in turn .
             derived from Boccaccio's "Decameron". Chaucer closely follows .
             Petrarch's text. Chaucer makes the Clerk candidly acknowledge .
             that his tale is derived from "Frauncey's Petrak". .
             The Clerk's Tale is suited to his character as a serious student. .
             His tale too has a scholarly theme and deals with the issue of .
             genuine obedience and loyalty in a wife. Griselda's story upholds .
             faith in goodness even in times of adversity. It is definitely a .
             moral tale and the Clerk relates it with all seriousness and .
             economy of words. .
             The Host's warning to the Clerk to keep his language simple and .
             to tell an entertaining and adventurous tale were not needed. The .
             tale proves that the Clerk was not an ossified academic. However .
             the Clerk does not relate an adventurous tale and does make use .
             of rhetoric and figures of speech. When the Clerk concludes his .
             tale the Host commends him for relating his story in a sweet and .
             wholesome manner. .
             Chaucer has invested, the folk tale Petrarchan version of the .
             patient Griselda's story, with an amazing degree of realism. .
             Griselda comes across as a real life human character. Her .
             sincerity to her husband and affection for her children seem .
             realistic. Her pathos is heart rending and earns the reader's .
             compassion. .
             Griselda's story of long suffering may be unappealing to modern .
             readers. But it is important to interpret the tale in the context of .
             the fourteenth century. Griselda was simply acting in accordance .
             with her roles as a loyal wife and a subject of the marquis. She .
             was fulfilling her moral obligations. .
             One could perhaps interpret the tale as a homily on Christian .


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The story The Canterbury Tales illustrates many examples of how the church was corrupt during the medieval times. ... In the beginning of The Canterbury Tales, a nun is introduced, the Prioress. ... They spend a lot of their time dedicated to learning and reading about the Bible and the monk in the Canterbury tales does not follow this image of what a monk should be. ... Through analysis of The Canterbury Tales it is said that in one of the tales, "The Pardoner and the Wife of Bath, both lay bare their very selves with utter abandon " (Lowes 186). ... That's not an action that a man of th...

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2. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

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5. The Comparison of Early British Literature

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6. Canterbury Tales

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