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- Takes care of the forest for the knight so no one pouches on the knights land
- He is not a slave
- Mostly commoners
- Robin Hood
- Very organized and neat
- Precise with his weapons
- Wore his St. Christopher medal |
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- Dainty in her mannerisms
- Kind hearted with animals
- Fat
- Good manners
- Chaucer likes her
- No mention of her faith in his writing
- Known as Madam Eglantyne, not sister
- She speaks French but she doesn’t have the accent
- She tried to impress people
- Has a special zest for courtliness
- She’s a romantic
- She’s faking that she is a woman of the royal court
- She is very charitable and has sympathy for animals
- She’s not wearing her habit and she’s on a pilgrimage
- She has a big forehead
- Her prayer beads are gaudy
- She is nice but not religious at all
- She is more fancy
- Has a charm on her rosary that has “love conquers all” engraved |
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- Take 4 vows of obedience, chastity, silence, and poverty
- Hunter
- Liked books
- Not religious
- Sleeves with fur cuffs
- Bald and fat
- He was good to his horses and dogs but he ate other animals
- He’s rich
- He wears gold
- he has fun
- he doesn’t like the rules
- he considers himself a modern man
- he is the head monk
- the fire in his eyes represents greed
- monks are supposed to do things that are against their desires to make him stronger |
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- takes the same vows as the monk except silence
- supposed to beg for money for the poor and church but he uses it for other things
- he says he has a license from the pope to hear confessions and absolve people from their sins
- he does this to get money
- he marries these girls because he got them pregnant so he needs to find them husbands
- very familiar with women
- he hangs out at bars
- familiar with the rich cause he gets money from them
- he is not familiar with the poor because he knows he can’t get anything from them
- wears a fancy cloche
- he is always drunk
- better than the lepers and the beggers |
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- collects the criminals to be judged by the court
- if they pay him, he’ll let them go
- stinks cause he eats garlic
- really gross with a lot of acne
- pimples are from a STD
- speaks Latin when he’s drunk
- he doesn’t remember that many phrases because he’s dumb
- let men keep their “ladies of the night” if they gave him wine
- he also had his own “ladies”
- if he catches someone sleeping around, he said don’t worry as long as they paid him off
- he says he doesn’t condone any of this because he knows the church will read it |
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- job is similar to the Friar
- has the power to pardon people for their sins if they give money to his charity (a hospital in Spain)
- blonde dreadlocks
- likes to ride his horse
- his wallet is full of all the pardons he collected
- high pitch voice and he can’t grow a beard
- has one male part, not three
- carrying his fake relics (pig bones)
- does this to sell them and make people think they are real
- he sang sweet in church because that meant he would get more money
- likes the Summoner
- they ride along singing love songs
- he gets people to give money because they don’t want to go to hell.
- He can tell a moral story no matter the story teller
- Avarice=greed
- Story is about gang members |
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- has common sense
- illiterate
- knows the market well
- servant in charge of buying
- knows how to manage his money
- spends a lot of money
- family is part of the court |
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- studying as a cleric but not bound to go into the church
- nobody has taken him in to work in the church
- values knowledge more than money and nice things
- poor and thin because he doesn’t buy food. He spends most of his money on books
- takes money from friends for books
- likes teaching |
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- very colorful character
- weaver
- dressed nicely
- had 5 husbands
- laughable and worldly woman
- partially deaf
- gap tooth (meaning promiscuous)
- wide
- been to Jerusalem three times and been on many pilgrimages and goes to church every day so she appears to be religious
- her head scarves weigh 10 pounds and she wears them to church
- went deaf after being hit in the head with a book by her husband
- picks pieces of the bible she likes and ignores the rest
- told women to married old and rich and aggravate him so he’ll die so you can get all his money
- she is looking for her 6th husband on this pilgrimage |
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- honest worker
- shovels poop
- good person
- loves God
- helps the poor
- giving and willing to do jobs for free
- pays his taxes on time
- the parsons brother
- this is what Chaucer thinks we should be like |
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- carpet maker, dyer carpenter, weaver
- trim and fresh new gear
- rich
- worthy citizens
- tried to become government officials
- went to church to look good
- wanted to be treated like kings
- the men didn’t care about the title but the women wanted the title
- the men were henpecked husbands
- Cook:
- Chaucer gave him pity because he had a wart on his knee
- Stood alone when he worked
- He could roast seed, broil, and fry
- He could cook a good soup and pie
- Blancmange is a thick chicken stew with almonds
- He could tell the difference between London ale
- He drinks a lot
- The ulcer on the knee is thought to be an STD |
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- His outfit comes from different places cause he exchanges goods with other countries
- He’s in debt and losing money |
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- very detailed and tells of every incident that happens to him
- apologizes for two things:
- apologizes if he offends anybody by what he sees
- he apologizes for messing up the order of detail
- he didn’t hear anything, he made up all the offensive stuff up himself
- the pilgrimage is fake |
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- owner of the inn
- he realizes they are all going on the same trip and he says
- he comes up with the idea for them to tell two stories on the way there and on the way back
- judging for a good moral to the story and just a good story
- the winner will get a meal
- the one’s that argue with the judges have to pay for everybody’s expenses |
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