Background Info
The social class system of this time.
What is Fuedalism?
The pilgrims win something if their tale is the best?
What is a meal?
What is greed?
The question that the knight must answer.
What is what do women want most?
Radix malorum est cupiditas.
What is greed is the root of all evil?
The amount of tales within The Canterbury Tales.
What is 24?
The pilgrims are going somewhere.
What is the shrine of St. Thomas Becket?
The old man symbolizes something occurring to the people in the time period.
What is the Black Death?
The time frame that the knight has to answer the question.
What is a year and one day?
This is what the Old Woman claims about poverty.
What is poverty is the glass in which we can see our true friends?
Characters typically tell another story within their tale.
What is a frame story?
Going on the pilgrimage to judge the contest.
Who is the Host?
"I preach for nothing but for the greed of gain..."
What is characterization?
The Old Woman gave the knight a requirement to the knight after helping him with the answer.
What is to take her as his wife?
The pilgrims each tell a story that gives insight to who they are as people.
What is characterization?
Chaucer exposes the church people's corruption through humor and irony.
What is satire?
The job of the Pardoner.
What is forgives people's sins for a price?
"Now for a drink. Sit down and let's be merry, For later on there'll be the corpse to bury."
What is irony?
The purpose of the Wife telling the story of King Midas in the middle of the tale.
What is that women cannot keep secrets?
The old man in Wooley Swamp is related to the old man in The Pardoner's Tale.
What is they are both considered death?
The Middle Ages can be summed up in two words.
What is barbaric & religious?
The reason the Wife is on the pilgrimage.
What is to find another husband?
Be specific. "Thus these two murders received their due, So did the treacherous young poisoner too."
What is situational irony?
Be specific. "Lo, she was young and lovely, rich in charms."
What is situational irony?
What is the Dark Age?