Billy Nevius
Jimmy Tuppeny
Ryan Wagner
Ryan Cooper
The Sergeant at Law
• Physical Qualities
• Homely parti-colored coat
• Silk pinstripe belt
• Mental Qualities
• Wary, wise, discreet
• Busy, but less busy than he seemed to be
• Spiritual Qualities
• Not mentioned
The Sergeant at Law (Cont.)
• Professional Qualities
• Sergeant at Law (King’s legal servant)
• Sixteen years experience
• Possible reasons for going on Pilgrimage
• To gain new clients
• 3 Facts
• Beggar for some of his life
• Hated people with more than he had
The Sergeant at Law (Cont.)
• He has related tales of war and peace many
times before
• The narrator does not like the Lawyer
• He was less busy than he seemed to be (332)
• Discreet as he was, a man to reverence, or so
he seemed (322-323)
• Key lines
• Though there was nowhere one so busy as he,
He was less busy than he seemed to be (331-
332)
The Sergeant at Law (Cont.)
• No one could pinch a comma from his screeds
(336)
• A modern day equivalent of the Sergeant at
Law is the stereotypical modern lawyer.
They are extremely smart, but try to seem
busier than they are and are not of high
moral standing.
Nun #2
• Physical Qualities.
• None mentioned.
• Mental Qualities.
• None mentioned.
• Spiritual Qualities.
• Devote Christian.
• Professional Qualities.
• She is a Nun and a member of the Clergy Group.
• Possible reason(s) for going on the pilgrimage.
• Because she followed the Prioress along with the
three priests.
Nun #2 (continued)
• Other information
• Her story is about St. Cecilia who lived a life of
extreme piety.
• Her husband Valemon is unbaptized.
• He eventually converts to Christianity and is
baptized.
• She is extremely unimportant and is only given two
lines along with the three priests.
• Modern day equivalent of your pilgrim
• Steve Wozniak because no one really pays much
attention to him compared to Steve Jobs and the
Nun is not payed attention to nearly as much as the
prioress
Cook
• Physical Appearance
• Ulcer on his knee
• Mental Qualities
• No mentions
• Spiritual Qualities
• No Mention
• Proffesional Qualities
• Excellent Cook
• Could distinguish London Ale
• Made the best Blancmage
The Cook (Cont.)
• Reason for going on pilgrimage
• To be healed of the STD that caused the ulcer
on his leg.
• 3 Facts
• Very Unsanitary
• Very good cook
• Pus filled sore on his leg
• Narrators feelings
• Feels bad for him because of the sore on his
leg
• Makes a gross joke about the sore on his leg
The Cook (Cont.)
• Key lines about him
• But What a pity – so it seemed to me,
That he should have an ulcer on his
knee, (Lines 395-396)
• Modern Day Equivalent
• I would compare the cook to Gordon
Ramsay since he is such a good
cook and so is the cook from the
Canterbury tales
Cook (Cont.)
• Prologue
• The cook was with The gulidsmen and he
stood alone. The Cook was very good at
his job and could cook many things as well
as he could distinguish London Ale by
taste. He could make the best blancmange
and although a good cook he had one
blemish and that was the ulcer on his knee.
Cook (Cont.)
• Characters involved in cooks prologue
• Cook
• Guildsmen (Indirectly)
• What is being taught
• That the cook is a good man but has a fault
which is an ulcer on his knee
Cook (Cont.)
Cooks Tale
Title Explanation
None the title did not have a name it was just called the
cook's tale
List of characters
Perkin Reveller – A drunken character who moves in with
his friend who is also a drunk. (For certainly a revelling
bond-boy...Who loves dice, wine, dancing, and girls of
joy-) (Lines 27-28)
Perkin's Friend- Drunk and Perkin moves in with him
Friends Wife – A prostitute
Cook (Cont.)
• Genre
• The cooks tale is a fabliaux because the story draws real
life ideas out and makes them into a comical tale about
Perkin who is a drunk and his friend who's wife is a
prostitute
• Satire
• This tale reveals that the cook likes to drink which is shown
through the way that he acts when he gets too drunk to tell
a second tale
• This tale shows us that society is very bad and are all
drunken and like to party
• The idea of partying and being drunk is being satirized in
this tale, The tale goes about this by talking about the way
that Perkin lives his life
Cook (Cont.)
• Summary
• The tale tells about a man named Perkin Reveller who is a
man who likes to drink and dance. He was released by his
master and he moves in with his drunken friend who has a
prostitute wife
• Theme
• Drunkenness clouds peoples judgment
• Modern Day showing of this
• Charlie Sheen is a good example of a character that
relates to the character in the cooks tale. This is
because the tale mentions prostitutes and drinking
which are two things that Charlie was heavily into.
Works Cited
Chaucer, Geoffrey. "Chaucer's Canterbury
Tales ~ presented by ELF." Chaucer's
Canterbury Tales ~ Presented by The
Electronic Literature Foundation. N.p.,
n.d. Web. 23 Oct. 2011.
Ryan Cooper
Prologue
The Summoner’s Prologue speaks
negatively towards the Friar, and to all friars
in general. Speaking of a tale involving a friar
being taken by an angel. The angel shows
the friar heaven, but when he asks if friars go
to heaven, he is also show hell. The
Summoner continues the tale, stating that
friars end up in Satan’s arse.
Character descriptions
His job was to summon people to attend
spiritual matter courts
Was known as an ugly man
A drunk
Boils and lesions on his face
Red faced
Corrupt
Spoke Latin
Scares children
Story: Flatulence, Blasphemy, and
the Emperor's Clothes
• Continues with his hatred toward the Friar.
• The Summoner tells of a friar who starts off
preaching and begging in Holderness, a
marshy region of Yorkshire.
• The friar then from his sermons, went out to
the residents houses to beg for charity for
himself.
• After a while he comes upon the house of
Thomas, where the friar stays.
Story Continued…
• Thomas is ill and has recently lost a child.
• The friar blames Thomas’s illness on him not
giving the church enough money.
• Thomas enraged declares that he has given
a vast amount of his money to a multitude of
friars.
• The friar, angered, declares that the money
given is not worth anything split among 12 of
them.
Story Continued…
Then he continues to tell three stories to
Thomas
One of a king that sentences a falsely accused
knight to death, ending in the king sentencing
three knights to death.
The second, of a drunken king that shot and killed
the son of a knight who had claimed that
drunkenness caused a man to lose “His mind,
and his limbs' usage…”
Story Continued…
– The Third of a king, Cyrus, whom had a river
destroyed because his horses had drowned in it.
• Afterwards the friar asks for a gold from Thomas
to build their cloister and makes threats and
guilt trips to try and push the matter.
• Extremely frustrated by the friar’s hierocracy,
the tells the friar he will give a gift to the friar, but
he must share it with the other friars.
– Stating that the gift is underneath him.
Story Continued…
When the friar went to grab underneath
Thomas’s rump, Thomas farted.
Telling the friar to share that with the rest of the
friars.
The friar, enraged, goes to the lord of the
land, telling of his embarrassing experience
with Thomas and angrily asks how he is to
share a fart with twelve.
Story Continued.
• The lord’s squire suggests that the friar take
a cartwheel and have the other friars to put
their noses to the spokes of the cartwheel.
From their the friar is to fart in the middle of
the cartwheel and the smell should be
carried by the spokes to the other friars.
• He then ends the tale as he states that they
have almost reached town.
Analytic questions
The Friar and friars in general are satirized
within this tale. The Tale in whole tells of how
friars are evil, corrupt, people that deserve
nothing but a fart.
The author speaks of how the clergy was
corrupt and greedy.
The tale reveals that the pilgrim was a very
offensive, mean, and not likable.
Theme
I believe that the Theme of the story is baed
around revenge due to the Friar’s tale of
summoners
“It [revenge] is sweeter far than flowing
honey” – Homer
Work Cited
http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-
etexts/gchaucer/bl-gchau-can-sum.htm
http://www.worldofquotes.com/topic/Revenge
/1/index.html