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1、An Analysis about the Characterization of the PrioressI assume that most of people in the world are familiar with Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), the most important and influential poet in medieval. So, undoubtedly, you are certainly having no strange to his greatest achievement The Canterbury Tales.T
2、his essay is going to discuss a character from one of excerpts. This excerpt named The Prioress portrays a nun who I will describe later with 3 adjectives based on the evidence.The characterization of the nun, firstly, I am inclined to say she is secular in spite of her nun identity. Traditionally,
3、nun should take an oath with the name of the God; however, this nun should say “By St.Loy”, and this person is a popular saint at this time. According to it, we can acquire that she is fashionable enough to know what is prevalent, which deviates from the standard of a nunto be fairyism. Whats more,
4、the way she intones in the sentence is described like this “intoning through her nose the words divine”, and she sings in a becoming way, all of these indicate she wants to show her sex appeal .In addition, her vulgar nickname “Madame Eglantine” also proves her secularity.Secondly, I think she is ri
5、diculous. The sentence “She spoke good French, as taught at Stratford-Bow” is an irony. Because this school is near the London, so her so-called French has strong London accent, actually she is not good at French. The next sentence “For the Parisian French she did not know” approves it further .Thou
6、gh she is not adept at it she still stick to saying, and it makes her ridiculous. She is not a noble person, but from the sentence “To imitate court ways, and had her pride, both amiable and gracious in her dealings”, we can see she is pretending to be noble. What a ridiculous and funny behavior! Fr
7、om this sentence we can feel her vain leads she to ridiculous and her ridicule exist in this kind of vain.Her vain is also embedded in the creature she shows sympathy for. She gives little dogs roasted meat or milk or good wheat bread to show her kind and mercy. Yes, she is kind, gentle and full of
8、guilelessness to some degrees, if we refer to the excerpt “she had, but how she wept to find one dead or yelping from a blow that made it smart”. She is warm-hearted enough to care for animals, but how about true poor guys? She ought to give such good food to starved poor people who really need them
9、. I think she puts the emphasis on the wrong side, or actually she just pretends to be kind? We all know “There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand peoples eyes”. From some details, I think this nun is secular，ridiculous and vain. However I also think maybe the occurrences of all these behaviors are because this maid is naivete. From this different aspect we may find the cuteness of this nun. And we may be encouraged by her freedom. Anyway，it is a funny verse，we all can get some acknowledge from it.
Canterbury tales 中 Prioress形象分析
