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Consequences

  • “I’m quite drunk,… therefore, if I slander or mis-say, blame it on ale of Southwark” (Chaucer 30-2).
  • "For it is Christ's own word that I will say, and if you tell a man, you're ruined quite; this punishment shall come to you, of right, that if you're traitor you'll go mad- and should!" (396-9).
  • "Absalom has kissed her nether eye; and Nicholas is branded on the butt" (744-5).
  • "The coulter burned his bottom so, throughout, that for the pain he thought that he should die" (704-5).
  • "This hapless Absalom, he heard that yell, and on his lip, for anger, he did bite; and to himself he said, 'I will requite!'" (636-8).
  • "'Alas! My soul I give now unto Sathanas, for rather far than own this town,' said he, 'For this despite, it's well revenged I'd be'" (641-4).

How Chaucer's Society Views Consequences

  • People do not take responsibility for their actions
  • An eye for an eye is fair
  • Avenging one's honor is more valuable than maintaining morality

Chaucer's Feelings

  • People need to own up to their mistakes
  • Society needs to dole out proportional consequences
  • Oftentimes, an innocent person pays the price for a crime they did not commit

Marraige

  • "Whom lie loved better than he loved his life;... Jealous he was and held her close in cage" (Chaucer 114-6).
  • "A husband must not be inquisitive of God, nor of his wife, while she's alive" (55-6).
  • "Thus fluttered was the carpenter's good wife, for all his watching and his jealousy" (742-3).
  • "It is a sin, and further, great folly to asperse any man, or him defame, and, too, to bring upon a man's wife shame" (38-40).
  • "A man should wed according to estate, for youth and age are often in debate" (121-2).
  • "'My husband is so full of jealousy, unless you will await me secretly, I know I'm just as good as dead" (186-8).

How Chaucer's Society Viewed Women

  • Woman is man's property
  • The only thing of value is their appearance
  • No better than an animal

Chaucer's Feelings

  • Women are actually very smart
  • Women take advantage of their positions
  • Women mercilessly manipulate men

Women

How Chaucer's Society Viewed Marriage

  • The husband and wife have rules they must follow
  • The husband has control over everything
  • The wife is merely property for the husband
  • People get married for looks and family, not for love
  • As a female, all you have to do to get married is look pretty and come from a successful family
  • Wives have no freedom-totally at mercy of husbands

Chaucer's Feelings

  • The institution of marriage is corrupt
  • Marriage is superficial
  • Jealousy happens because people don't get married for love
  • "Of coal-black silk... her collar, black silk worked with thread,... and certainly she had a lickerish eye" (Chaucer 132-6).
  • "If she had been a mouse and he a cat, he would have mauled her some" (238-9).
  • "For some are won by means of money spent, and some by tricks, and some by long descent" (273-4).
  • "She was a primrose, and a tender chicken for any lord to lay upon his bed, or yet for any good yeoman to wed" (160-2).
  • "She was far more pleasant thing to see than is the newly budded young pear-tree" (139-40).
  • "And thus she made of Absalom her ape, and all his earnestness she made a jape" (281-2).

Chaucer's Overall Opinions of His Society

  • Society in general is corrupt
  • People value and emphasize superficial things when they should focus on qualities, characteristics, and morality
  • People tend to ignore the corruption in their lives because it would be too much effort to try to change it
  • People ignore their responsibilities and blame others for any problems in their lives

Religion

  • "There was of that church a parish clerk whose name was... Absalom... he wore a fine surplice" (Chaucer 204-15).
  • " For it is Christ's own word that I will say... I never will tell it to child or wife" (396- 404).
  • "But he was ready with his iron hot and Nicholas right in the arse he got" (701-2).
  • "Then fell it thus, that to the parish kirk, the Lord Christ Jesus' own works for to work, this good wife went, upon a holy day" (199-201).
  • "This Absalom... went with a censer on the holy day, censing the wives like an enthusiast; and on them many a loving look he cast" (231-4).
  • "That now, come Monday next, at nine of night, shall fall a rain so wildly mad as would have been, by half, greater than Noah's flood" (408-10).
  • "This man is fallen, with his astronomy;... men should not meddle in God's privity" (343-6).
  • "This hapless carpenter began to quake; he thought now... that he could see Old Noah's flood come wallowing like the sea" (506-8).

Chaucer's Feelings

How Chaucer's Society Views Religion

  • Religious officials are hypocritical, fake, and superficial
  • Emotions matter more that religious morality
  • Double standards corrupt religion
  • Religion is commonly used to manipulate people
  • Appearances are important
  • Religious officials are respectable and dependable
  • Religious ideas are always right

Class

Chaucer & Society

  • "A wealthy lout...and of his craft he was a carpenter. A poor scholar was lodging with him there" (Chaucer 80-2).
  • "And by the Arms and Blood and Bones he swore, 'I have a noble story in my store, with which I will requite the good knight's tale'" (17-9).
  • "Now there was of that church a parish clerk... curled was his hair, shining like gold" (205-6).
  • "He stood in red hose fitting famously. And he was clothed full well and properly" (211-2).
  • "A clerk has lazily employed his while if he cannot a carpenter beguile" (191-2).
  • "He had a chamber in that hostelry, and lived alone there, without company" (95-6).

How Chaucer's Society Viewed Class

  • The lower classes are made up of smarter people
  • Religious officials have high positions
  • Appearance and wealth are valued more than education and morality

Chaucer's Feelings

  • Religion is corrupt
  • A person's position in society is not a true reflection of their worth (ignorant/corrupt people have power and wealth)

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