Parson and Plowman - Carolyn Junior
You have the four page outline of the two pilgrims so If anyone has any questions, please ask. Most important slides if you are reviewing would be slides 8, 7, 4-6. Those are the tale outline & Parson Descrip. If you lost your outline, I'd be more than happy to print another out for you.
--- I didn't think it was important to mention during my presentation but it's interesting:
Chaucer never penned a tale for the Plowman. Piers, The title character of Langland’s Piers Plowman, was considered a Lollard (see the Wife of Bath’s Description) and Chaucermay not have seen it wise to include another plowman that may carry with it the same Lollard title. But future generations of Canterbury readers felt that a silent Plowman was just no enough. Two different Plowman tales were written:
1) Mid 15C - the Christ Church manuscript of CT – the Plowman’s tale was 4th from the end. In Chaucer’s general prologue the Plowman is shown as a humble religious man. So, the Plowman (spelt Ploughman) tells a tale venerating the Virgin Mary. There is RELIGIOUS/DEVOUT Monk to whom after praying the rosary 50 x’s, the Virgin Mary appears. He continued to pray to her and she continued to appear until finally she promised that he would become the abbot (head of the monastery) which he does become. The Plowman ends his tale saying that the Virgin Mary will reward you but we must pray.
2) About 1400 – summary: (1) prologue – plowman leaves plowing and goes on the pilgrimage. (2) Host (Harry Bailey [I remember his name because it’s a switch of Halle Barry]) asks him to tell a religious tale (3) tells a tale that he heard from a priest about conflict between two different kinds of people: The established clergy (corrupt) & the oppressed poor Lollards. (4) The Clergy is represented by a griffin. The Lollards are represented by a Pelican. (5) The Pelican talks most of the time against the Griffin probably because the author was trying to further the arguments for Lolllardy. (6) In the end there is a fight. The fighters are: The Griffin with his attack birds Vs. the Pelican and Phoenix (usually symbol of Christ). The Pelican wins. (7) the Plowman ends by saying, I’m just reporting the Pelican’s words.
--- I didn't think it was important to mention during my presentation but it's interesting:
Chaucer never penned a tale for the Plowman. Piers, The title character of Langland’s Piers Plowman, was considered a Lollard (see the Wife of Bath’s Description) and Chaucermay not have seen it wise to include another plowman that may carry with it the same Lollard title. But future generations of Canterbury readers felt that a silent Plowman was just no enough. Two different Plowman tales were written:
1) Mid 15C - the Christ Church manuscript of CT – the Plowman’s tale was 4th from the end. In Chaucer’s general prologue the Plowman is shown as a humble religious man. So, the Plowman (spelt Ploughman) tells a tale venerating the Virgin Mary. There is RELIGIOUS/DEVOUT Monk to whom after praying the rosary 50 x’s, the Virgin Mary appears. He continued to pray to her and she continued to appear until finally she promised that he would become the abbot (head of the monastery) which he does become. The Plowman ends his tale saying that the Virgin Mary will reward you but we must pray.
2) About 1400 – summary: (1) prologue – plowman leaves plowing and goes on the pilgrimage. (2) Host (Harry Bailey [I remember his name because it’s a switch of Halle Barry]) asks him to tell a religious tale (3) tells a tale that he heard from a priest about conflict between two different kinds of people: The established clergy (corrupt) & the oppressed poor Lollards. (4) The Clergy is represented by a griffin. The Lollards are represented by a Pelican. (5) The Pelican talks most of the time against the Griffin probably because the author was trying to further the arguments for Lolllardy. (6) In the end there is a fight. The fighters are: The Griffin with his attack birds Vs. the Pelican and Phoenix (usually symbol of Christ). The Pelican wins. (7) the Plowman ends by saying, I’m just reporting the Pelican’s words.
posted by L Lazarow | 3:56 AM
1 Comments:
carolyn,
do you think we should bring up specific examples of the seven sins in our tale summary, or just that they were the main focus of part three..
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