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The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
Title: The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 989 | Pages: 4.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Nun’s Priest’s Tale
In the poem, The Nun’s Priest’s Tale, Geoffrey Chaucer describes the main characters playing roles that they would never take in reality. The story focuses around Chanticleer the rooster, Pertelote his wife or companion, and the fox that tries to kill Pertelote. Each character has their own distinctive personality that they often times use as a tool to get what they want or secretly control a situation. At many times, selfishness overcomes a …showed first 75 words of 989 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 989 total…it is not hard to see that they each played an unrealistic role. Chanticleer shamed the title of being a man by his lack of leadership and his submissiveness. Pertelote was too trusting of strangers, and ended up almost losing her life to a supposedly friendly fox. And last, the fox was too sure of himself and his motives by thinking that he could get anything he wanted if he just used a little charm.
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