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The Canterbury Tales:

The Monk's Tale

By: Austin Hager and Tony Hudak-Cave

Contemporary Song:

Character Synopsis:

The Monk's Tale:

This song "Going Down In Flames" by 3 Doors Down basically exemplifies a song about that someone is "going down in flames" and by the meaning of going "down in Flames" they are going to hell for all the wrong they have committed. The reason that I believe that this song best shows the social commentary in the Monk's Tale is because it literally is a song stating that there is a person "going down in flames" because of all the wrong that he has done in his life not basically relating it to fortune, but showing that every conqueror was too greedy and believed that they where the best and they were quickly sent "down in flames" basically stating that they died in a way that wasn't always pleasant or delightful.

The Monk's Tale

The Monk is a manly man, that is fat, bald, and greasy, with eyes that roll in his head. The Monk's favorite past-time is hunting, and to this end he keeps gorgeous horses and greyhounds. The Monk is all sorts of things that, as a religious figure, although he should probably not be – a hunter, overfed, expensively-dressed in fur and gold jewelry, and a cultivator of expensive habits. But the Monk is willing to admit that he doesn't live a traditional religious life of hard work, study, and fasting, claiming as his excuse that he is a modern man, disdainful of the old traditions.

How it is a Social Commentary:

The Monk's Tale was a whole line of small tales about many different conquerors from back in the Medieval time period that had grown too fond of there never ending fortune that either God or someone that was close to this conqueror ended up killing every single one of them in each of there own stories. Some examples of these conquerors where, Hercules, Alexander The Great, and Julius Caesar. The reason why all of these men or women conquerors died was for two reasons. The first reason is as I have already stated because they became too greedy in there fortune and life style. This is well shown when The Monk is saying that Balthasar,"Was given glory and honor, his throne, his wealth. But he was [to] proud, and unafraid of God, and therefore wretchedness was what God sent him, Throwing him to the ground, as the beast he was"(lines 189-192). The second reason is because of there fortune they believe that they could rule and conqueror whom ever they wanted to, which in the end ends up killing the majority of these conquerors. This is shown really well when the Monk is talking about how Alexander The Great was killed and was," Poisoned by Greeks, some of [his] very own men, Fortune turned your dicer's six to a one, and never shed a tear when you were dead"(Lines 635-637). I believe that the social commentary that Chaucer is poking fun at is that even though you are made of wealth and fortune doesn't mean you can't be harmed or killed, and the actions that you took to get that fortune and wealth might come back to haunt you in the end, also if you use your fortune to be cocky, boast about it that will also end the reign of the conquerors also another social commentary that is noticed through out the reading.

Contemporary Song Video:

Picture's from the Monk's Tale:

The Monk:

"Going Down In Flames" by 3 Doors Down

This is a picture of what the Monk looks like and how he carries himself with the expensive cloths and every thing else that is described about the Monk.

This is a picture that i found when i looked up about the Monk's Tale that basically means Lady Fortune, turning her wheel, with one she favors at the top of the wheel. Which inevitably turns and dashes the former favorite downward.

The Monk on his horse telling this story about all the different conquerors that he knows history about.

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