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THE CANTERBURY TALES, Goeffrey Chausser (1343–1400), book, image, 4, 5.1,…

- - - - The narrator introduces each of the pilgrims and describes their physical appearance and their story.
    - - Theseus, Arcite and Palamon fall in love with Emelye. After the tournament between Palamon and Arcite, Aricite died and Palamon marries Emelye.
    - - It is the story of an student named Nicholas, who persuades his landlord’s wife, Alisoun, to spend the night with him.
    - - The Reeve tells the story of two students, John and Alayn who seduces the miller’s daughter, and John seduces his wife due to the dishonest miller.
    - - It is the story of Perkyn who drinks and dances so much but at the end the tale is unfinished.
    - - The story is about Custance who is executed. In where Alla and many others convert to Christianity. Finally, Custance and Alla get married.
    - - The wife gives a lengthy account of her feelings about marriage using courtly romance to subvert courtly norms and arguing for female independence.
    - - The Friar tells of an archdeacon who carries out the law without mercy and at the end the summoner is off to hell.
    - - A friar begs for money from a dying man named Thomas and his wife, who complains to the lord of the manor, whose squire promises to divide the fart evenly among all the friars.
    - - It aims to refute the Wife’s story, asserting that marriage is happiest when the wife is obedient.
    - - An old knight named January marries May who conspires to cheat on him with his squire, Damien.
    - - The Squire to say something about his favorite subject, love, and the Squire willingly complies.
    - - It is the story of a woman called Dorigen, who awaits the return of , Arveragus(her husband), who has gone to England.She worries and promises Aurelius that she will give her body to him if he clears the rocks from the coast.
    - - Appius sentences Virginius to death, but the Roman people throw him into prison, where he kills himself.
    - - It describes three riotous youths who go looking for Death, thinking that it can kill them.
    - - It features a monk who tricks a merchant’s wife into having sex with him by borrowing money from the merchant.
    - - A seven-year-old boy attends the school. He is a devout Christian, but he is murdered by the jews who at the end were handed.
    - - Sir Thopas rides about looking for an elf-queen to marry until he is confronted by a giant
    - - Melibee forgives them for the outrages done to her, in a model of Christian forbearance and forgiveness.
    - - The Monk tells a series of tragic falls.
    - - The Host praises the Nun’s Priest’s Tale, adding that if the Nun’s Priest were not in holy orders, he would be as sexually potent as Chanticleer.
    - - The Yeoman tells a tale of how a canon defrauded a priest by creating the illusion of alchemy using sleight of hand.
    - - It relates the legend of a white crow, taken from the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
    - - The Parson delivers a lengthy treatise on the Seven Deadly Sins.
    - - He retracts and prays for forgiveness for all of his works dealing with secular and pagan subjects, asking only to be remembered for what he has written of saints’ lives and homilies.
    - - The Second Nun is about Saint Cecilia, who is an excellent example through her good works and wise teachings.
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