Stories in

Canterbury
Tales
Cerna, Loren Montana, Helena
Butch, Tinio Ybañez, Lavenzel
The Pardoner's
Tale
 The
Pardoner's
Tale
 • Characters are
The allegorical
Pardoner's - God / Jesus
Tale
“We will kill this traitor Death”
Radix malorum est
cupiditas: Latin for “The Tearing Christ’s blessed
love of money is the root body to a shred;
of all evil” (1 Timothy “If we can only catch him,
6:10). Death is dead!”
 - Earth Mother/ Mother
Nature

“Not even Death, alas, will take my life;

So, like a wretched prisoner at strife
Within himself, I walk alone and wait About the
earth, which is my mother’s gate,
Knock-knocking with my staff from night to noon
And crying, ‘Mother, open to me soon! Look at me,
mother, won’t you let me in?
See how I wither, flesh and blood and skin”
The Pardoner is
an archetype of
HYPOCRISY

LIMINALITY: From the

thought of killing Death
to killing their own
friends
The Second
Nun's Tale
The Second
Nun's Tale

St. Cecilia
(patron saint of music)
 LIMINALITY:
• Her unwavering faith in God
transformed her into Saint Cecilia

• Even though they were married,

they still value the virtue of chastity
or having a sexless marriage
The Knight's
Tale
The
Knight's
Tale
 LIMINALITY:
The cousins Palamon and Arcite
both fall in love with Emelye,
sister of Hippolyta, queen of the
Amazons, who is married to
their captor Theseus. A
tournament is held in which the
two rivals compete for Emelye’s
hand. Although Arcite wins, he is
thrown from his horse and dies.
After a period of mourning,
Palamon and Emelye marry.
 Kinds of English Used
Chaucer wrote during the final
decades of the fourteenth century;
hence, his language belongs to the
later Middle English period.

nat, noght, nawt,

naught, naȝt
 Kinds of English Used
As in many modern cities, the
language spoken on the streets of
Chaucer’s London was characterized
by considerable diversity—the result
of large-scale immigration into the
capital during the fourteenth century.
Relevance and
Contribution in
Modern British
Society:
1
Not only does
Canterbury Tales
reflect how society's
roles were changing
within the elite, but also
the ideas regarding
religion during the
fourteenth century.
2 Through Chaucer’s
images, the historian
can see how the views
of women were
beginning to transform
during the fourteenth
century.
3 It illustrates an
interesting cross
section of people
from the Middle
Ages.
4 The significance of
Chaucer's work
cannot be
overstated.
5 Scholars are able to
discover much
about the past
through his stories.
THE END