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The Friar’s Tale

The Friar’s Tale. Summary and Character Analysis. Summary. Archdeacon who is very good at discovering who has done wrong (church). The Church is strict against adultery, witchcraft, and lechery. The Archdeacon has a summoner who himself has many spies to help him.

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The Friar’s Tale

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  1. The Friar’s Tale Summary and Character Analysis

  2. Summary • Archdeacon who is very good at discovering who has done wrong (church). • The Church is strict against adultery, witchcraft, and lechery. • The Archdeacon has a summoner who himself has many spies to help him. • The summoner was traveling one day and he meets a yeoman. • The summoner know that his job is disagreeable so he pretends to be a bailiff.

  3. Summary Continued • The yeoman also claims to be a bailiff and he says that they are “brothers”. • Both make their money through extortion and they confess their sins to each other. • The yeoman admits he is the devil. • They bump into a carter whose wagon is stuck and he is cursing his horses. • The summoner asks the yeoman why he doesn’t take the horses and the yeoman says because the carter isn’t serious.

  4. Summary Continued • The carter gets unstuck and the yeoman leaves saying he will see the summoner again. • The summoner goes to a rich widows house and summons her to meet the archdeacon for excommunication. • The claims that the summoner has are false though and the woman gets angry at him. • She damns him to hell and then the devil comes and takes the summoner there, the home of true summoners

  5. Character Analysis • Summoner – deceitful, greedy, dishonest • Yeoman - dishonest • Widow – innocent, honest

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