Final Canterbury Tales Assignment

For your LAST Canterbury Tales assignment, please do the following:

1. Watch all of the PowToons!  They are awesome and highly entertaining (and short).  You all did a great job.

2.  Pick TWO of them to comment on.  Your commentary should focus on ANALYSIS.

Things to think about: What point was Chaucer trying to make through this story?  Why did this particular character tell this specific story?  What elements of the story are satirical?  What people/events/ideas from Chaucer's time was he trying to satirize?

Remember, you can either make a brand new comment on a post with a new idea someone hasn't stated OR you can directly respond to a comment someone has already made, as long as you are bringing a new idea to the table in some way.

20 points in Competency P

The Franklin's Tale

The Prioress's Tale

The Merchant's Tale

The Wife of Bath's Prologue

The Nun's Priest's Tale

The Shipman's Tale

The Reeve's Tale

The Pardoner's Tale

The Wife of Bath's Tale

The Knight/The Miller

The Nun's Priest

The Prioress

The Reeve

The Franklin

The Merchant

The Wife of Bath

The Shipman

The Pardoner

Miller's Tale Discussion Question #4

Consider Absalom's revenge.  Is it fitting?  Why or why not?  Is Allison blamed for her role in the deception of John, or for her behavior toward Absalom?  Who/what is Chaucer criticizing in this tale?

Miller's Tale Discussion Question #3

Note the clever way in which the cleric Nicholas get the better of the carpenter John.  Does this cleverness make him the hero of the tale?  Who is the cleverest trickster in the Miller's Tale?  Why?

Miller's Tale Discussion Question #2

Note the physicality in the depiction of Alison.  How is she described?  What type of imagery is used?  Does Chaucer seem sympathetic to her unhappiness with her husband?  Why or why not?

Miller's Tale Discussion Question #1

Chaucer claims that he is only repeating faithfully what he heard on the pilgrimage and that if any reader is offended, he should not blame the author, but himself.  What are the implications concerning an author's responsibility to his readers?  What sort of truth is he bound to?

The Miller's Tale

I'm going to post the four discussion questions for The Miller's Tale.  Choose TWO of them to respond to in the comments.  You do not have to include the entire answer you may have written.  Feel free to respond to a comment one of your classmates may have made.....this should be a DISCUSSION, not just a list of everyone's answers.

The Knight's Tale versus The Miller's Tale

The Miller's Tale is a response to the Knight's Tale.  Choose one specific character, event, or theme from the summary of the Knight's Tale that you read.  How does the Miller take that and twist it for his tale?  Please either:
A. Leave a NEW example as an answer in the comments OR
B. Add an original idea (something that has not been said) to the example one of your classmates already left.

You are welcom!

That's Middle English for "You are welcome!" to this blog about Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales.