The Prioress' Tale
Criticism
By Destiny Sauer and Sarah Reiter
- Does Chaucer approve , or disapprove of anti-semitism
- Keeps referring to the Virgin Marry
- The Pardoner expresses sin through the materialistic, and the Prioress expresses grace and spirituality
And Again.....
Moral
- The boy explains to them the reason he is still alive.
- Christ told him to sing until his burial
- Virgin Mary placed a pearl on his tongue
- A monk removed the pearl
- The little boy dies
- Trust in Christ no matter what
Continued.....Again
- All of the Christian people were surprised he was still living and gathered around him
- The head of the city ordered that all of the jews are to be restrained and were later hanged.
- The boy is taken to the nearest abbey and is still singing O Alma Redemptoris
The Prayer
Continued
The Prioress asks Virgin Mary to help her with the tale
- The mother got extremely worried for her missing son and went from house to house
- Anyone she asked lied and said they didn't know of his location.
- Jesus directed the mother towards the alley where her son was
- As the mother grew near, she could hear her child sing O Alma Redemptoris
Summary
"For sometimes, lady, ere, men pray to thee"
- Boy of a widowed mother living in a city in Asia
- He hears children sing O Alma Redemptoris
- He starts listening to it more and memorizes the first verse.
- He decides to learn the song to sing it on Christmas Day to praise Virgin Mary
Prologue
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti
- Prayer
- Praise of Virgin Mary
"Wherefore in Honour of Thee, as Best I can, Of Thee and of that Whitest Lily flower"
Continued
Intro to the Prioress
- The boy walks along the ghetto singing the song boldly
- Satan tells the jewish people that the is poison to their laws.
- Dainty
- Speaks incorrect French
- Coy- shy and reserved
- Very elegantly dressed with coral beads attached to a pendant
- Clergy class
- The Jews hired a murderer to kill the boy
- The boy had his throat slit and was cast into a pit of the jews feces