Anger and Community in The Knight's Tale  

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Griffith, John Lance

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Fu jen studies: literature & linguistics no. 41 (2008), page 13-45.
Topik: Chaucer; Bath; tale; story

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As Chaucer's Wife of Bath comes to the end of her life story and prepares to tell her tale, the Friar interrupts her, commenting on the considerable length of her prologue: "This is a long preamble of a tale" (831). The Friar laughs as he says this and it is not clear that the Wife is bothered in any way; but before she can respond, the Summoner accuses the Friar of interfering and of taking the fun out the tale-telling game ("Thou lettest our disport" [839]). The Friar then promises to tell a tale (or two) about summoners which will make the whole company laugh. Cursing the Friar, the Summoner in turn vows two (or three) tales which will wound the Friar ("make thyn herte for to morne" [894]). Before either the Friar or the Summoner can begin a tale, however, the Host intervenes. He allows the Wife to continue and momentarily restores order, though the conflict between the Friar and Summoner surfaces again later in their respective tales. This angry quarrel between the Friar and Summoner exposes the tensions and anxieties inherent in medieval social relations, though Chaucer's characterization of the two men as vengeful storytellers directs our attention largely to the private, or personal, dimension of the Friar's and Summoner's mutual anger.

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