The Friar's Tale Analysis
Buddha once said “Neither life nor death can erase our good deed”. In Geoffrey Chaucer’s book, The Canterbury Tales, “The Friar’s Tale”, a story about a devious summoner, who likes to take advantage of people, meets his unexpected fate called karma. The underlying meaning and moral of the tale is that all bad deeds will be punished in the end.
Firstly, the summoner shows his deceitful nature when he first meets his prospective victim, the yeoman/ the bailiff. As he set off to catch a prey, he finds “A poor old fiddle of the widow-tribe From whom, on a feigned charge, he hoped for a bribe Now as he rode it happened that he saw A gay young yeoman under a leafy shaw”(313). The summoner introduced himself as a bailiff, to the yeoman concealing
Firstly, the summoner shows his deceitful nature when he first meets his prospective victim, the yeoman/ the bailiff. As he set off to catch a prey, he finds “A poor old fiddle of the widow-tribe From whom, on a feigned charge, he hoped for a bribe Now as he rode it happened that he saw A gay young yeoman under a leafy shaw”(313). The summoner introduced himself as a bailiff, to the yeoman concealing