Canterbury Tales Presentation Rubric | NAME: | PERIOD: | | | | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total | Organization | Audience cannot understand presentation because there is no sequence of information. | Audience has difficulty following presentation because student jumps around. | Student presents information in logical sequence which audience can follow. | Student presents information in logical‚ interesting sequence which audience can follow. | | Subject Knowledge | Student does not have grasp
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Fall 2013 Paper Number 1: The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales-The Wife of Bath The Wife of Bath is a character that Chaucer presents as an attractive female in its prologue. She is a headstrong and very self-confident woman of her time who thinks highly of herself. Chaucer’s descriptions of her facial and bodily features are sexually suggestive. In the Prologue‚ Chaucer’s narrative involves her physical appearance describing her clothes‚ legs‚ feet‚ hips‚ and her gap-tooth
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General Prologue At the Tabard Inn‚ a tavern in Southwark‚ near London‚ the narrator joins a company of twenty-nine pilgrims. The pilgrims‚ like the narrator‚ are traveling to the shrine of the martyr Saint Thomas Becket in Canterbury. The narrator gives a descriptive account of twenty-seven of these pilgrims‚ including a Knight‚ Squire‚ Yeoman‚ Prioress‚ Monk‚ Friar‚ Merchant‚ Clerk‚ Man of Law‚ Franklin‚ Haberdasher‚ Carpenter‚ Weaver‚ Dyer‚ Tapestry-Weaver‚ Cook‚ Shipman‚ Physician‚ Wife‚ Parson
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THE CANTERBURY TALES STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS Prologue 1. In lines 1-18 (which are all one sentence)‚ identify the time and the author’s main point. April; the main point is that according to the poet‚ people long to go on a pilgrimage in the Spring. 2. Why does the urge to go on pilgrimage hit people in the spring? Winter is over; it’s time for renewal. 3. Who is at the inn? Who arrives at the inn? What is the central idea? (Look in ll. 19-28). The narrator is at the inn; twenty-nine pilgrims
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In Canterbury Tales‚ Chaucer gives a description oftwenty-nine people in a pilgrimage. Each has different personalities which we can relate to how people behave today. The wife of Bath stands out more than the other characters. In the prologue‚ the wife of birth is described in a way that makes one wonder how well she fits the rules made by Christian authorities regarding the behavior of a woman. According to the church‚ women are categorized as saints or angels. The wife of thebath is a bravewoman;
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Dhruv Bhatt – Canterbury Fails The story revolves around a very generic kind of man Who lived in a cottage with his wife in Kazakhstan. Used to be happily married‚ loved his wife dearly His love was very palpable‚ seen clearly. But as years passed his feelings towards her began to wither Because the arguments they had were getting bigger and bigger They would scream and shout and yell the night away To the point where they’d wake up their neighbors‚ all of whom were gay. As their emotional feelings
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The Canterbury Tales Thomas Becket – Thomas Becket was the archbishop and Canterbury in the 1100s. It was his duty and right to coronate the new King of England. When three other bishops tried to coronate a new king of England‚ Becket refused to sign the appropriate paperwork and the other three coroneted the new king‚ Henry‚ without him. When the King found out that Becket had done this‚ he said something that could be loosely interpreted as “Oh‚ that’s annoying” so the King’s guards‚ hearing
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In Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales‚ each character tells their tales based on their experiences or beliefs. Although they may all be different‚ some stories do share similarities. As we see in the knight’s tale he shares a story full of chivalry‚ passion and courage. Since those are his beliefs and what he stood for it makes sense why he choose to tell a story with these qualities. As for the Wife of Bath‚ she too tells a story of a soon to be knight who is arrogant‚ superficial and vein but
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* Knight * Leader of pilgrimage * Wore tunic stained with dark marks from his armor * Possessed fine horses but not gaily dressed * Most distinguished one‚ leader * Man of chivalry‚ truth‚ honor‚ generosity‚ courtesy * Noble hero‚ honored for noble graces * Was there when they took Alexandria (city in Egypt) * Traveled to North America * Lost at Granada * Visited Russia‚ Prussia‚ Lithuania * Traveled along Mediterranean
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During the Middle Ages there were many professions‚ some of them were honorable others were not. In Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales‚ there are profiles of some the professions that were present during the Middle Ages. Among the professions there were a few that seemed unappealing. Personally‚ I do not like the professions that accept bribes; in this case the Friar represented characteristics of that profession. Other professions provoke suffering of another human being. For example‚ the Summoner’s job
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