Dec. 5: Class notes

Ken presented the Friar:

Friar- "Begs to live", mix of monk(poverty) and priest(forgives sins, marriages)

General Prologue:
-humble, pale, speaks with lisp
-Chaucer describes- opposites of prideful and extortionous (imitates nobility)
-tries to defame anyone from church
line 211- friar would gossip and ignore the confidential
lines 215-216- Franklin liked him because so did nobility (most had a bone to pick with the church)
-well fed (has his own horse)
-somewhat of a womanizer
lines 242-247- avoids who doesn't give him money
-lives like a king at some point
-significant that he has a name

Intro to tale
-Pampas, annoying, being self righteous
-preaching extortion
-hypocrite
-people from church don't like to read

Tale (religious)
-meets devil who is disguised as Yeoman
-summoner has an argument
-asks "devil" to find a way to steal peoples money and convince that it is ok
-Yeoman expresses himself as a devil
-Summoner and devil find an old women (poor)
lines 298-310- summoner gets money and the devil tricks him by going to hell because he thinks the summoner doesn't know any better
-refers to as a fiend and "beasts to devil"
-the friar and the summoner are opposites and in competition because they are looking for the same people

LAZ notes:
-How bad is a summoner? His traveling companion becomes a devil (he didn't know)
-no one liked summoners because they made people speak of sins
-2 people they find along the way: Cart- stuck in the mud (frustrated, cries out "I wish this would all go to hell!") Devil saw that he didn't really mean what he said; Old Woman- damns summoner to hell and means it so the devil extorts summoner to hell
-Middle Class clergy, artificial lisp (nobility), Hubert- wants to be more upper class, shown with the way he acts and dresses

Ryan presented the second nun:

(not in general prologue)
accompanied by Prioress and nun's priest

Prologue
-gives message about avoiding sin and the devil
-St. Cecillia- greatly admires
-praises Holy Mary
-gives St. Cecillia 3 trans.
1) "heaven's lily"- pureness (good conscious, honest)

Tale
-Cecilia is Roman- married to Valerian
-dreaded to get married (wanted to stay virgin)
-prayed to remain virgin
-wedding day- secret angel who would kill Valerian if he touched her
-Pope Urban asks angel to make his brother, Tibertius, pure
-only the pure sees crown
-Tibertius gets baptized
-people got angry about Christianity
-Roman government (Almachius) ordered them to worship
-Refused, then executed
-Maximus claims he saw
-Cecilia arrested, then ordered to be boiled to death
-she didn't boil but got injured
-taught people Christianity before she died in 3 days
-buried by Pope Urban

LAZ notes: pretty obvious that it is about a Saint, Prioress's tale was not religious.

I didn't have enough time to write down a lot, I am kind of confused myself on the second nun, but those are all the notes i got on Friday.

Tanya