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Unveiling Chaucer's Pilgrims in a Feudal Painting

Dive into Chaucer's world as you analyze a painting depicting his pilgrims, exploring their symbolism and characteristics. Learn about feudalism, literary analysis, and Chaucer's portrayal of societal roles.

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Unveiling Chaucer's Pilgrims in a Feudal Painting

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  1. Warm-Up Feudalism Game

  2. Painting • Page 138 • Painting of Chaucer’s pilgrims • Figures seen as universal types, not individuals • What do you notice about the painting?

  3. C-Tales: A Snapshot of an age • Although the tales tell us quite a bit about the Middle Ages, it is important to remember that it is a work of fiction. • Chaucer plays different roles: Chaucer as a man, a poet, and a pilgrim.

  4. Read pg. 137-38 and prepare to answer the following: • How do pilgrims feel about Inns? • Why is the prologue unlike other literature? • What are the levels of the stories?

  5. The Prologue • Many College and HS students are taught to memorize the prologue in Middle English. • How long is the first sentence? • What idea is introduced after the first sentence?

  6. Literary Terms • Frame Story • The Speaker • Can you think of a modern book or movie that has a frame story?

  7. Comprehension • Where is the speaker and why is he there?

  8. REASONS TO GO • Improve chances of SALVATION • Healed by Saint’s relics • Atone for sins

  9. Compare and Contrast • Lines 29-42 • Compare with Middle English on page 141. What rhyme schemes are preserved? • Couplets • Iambic Pentameter (dah DAH) unstressed, stressed

  10. CHARACTERS • Looks/ Dresses Picture • Speaks and Acts • Thinks and Feels • Others Respond to Character • What Speaker thinks about Character/ How Chaucer portrays character

  11. The Knight • Holy wars • What qualities does the knight possess that are different from qualities of a veteran soldier? • When prologue mentions clothing, it is using indirect characterization (sort of what we did in class). What does it say about him in lines 69-74?

  12. Patterns • Ideal knight sets up pattern of perfection that other characters will be measured against.

  13. Squire • How does he differ from the knight? • Note: The Squire fought in a campaign against the French in Flanders—a humiliating defeat for the English • Summarize the narrator's description of the squire.

  14. Critics • Squire’s clothes stress youth and frivolity. • Not the man his father is, yet not to be laughed away. • Chaucer likes the Squire and praises the young man’s accomplishments. • What does the last couplet say about him?

  15. Yeoman • Originally Knight’s servant • How is he portrayed?

  16. Nuns • A nun was a woman who lives in a convent & takes a vow of poverty, obedience, & chastity. She is married to Christ. As mother superior of a convent, a prioress is under oath not to leave her duties.

  17. Comprehension Question • Is the nun’s behavior appropriate for a nun?

  18. Irony • By St. Loy • Saint known for his refusal to swear • Eglantyne also ironic because it is the name of several romantic heroes. • How else is she portrayed as a romantic figure?

  19. Comprehension Question • How does Chaucer feel about the nun?

  20. Comprehension Question • What details about her suggest that she is putting on airs? That she is trying to be more high class than she really is?

  21. Criticism • Prioress represents fundamental flaw in the system. • Values were contaminated by secular beliefs. • She is “class conscious”

  22. Closing • Write one thing that was interesting today in your notebooks.

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