English Literature The Nuns Priests Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer

English Literature The Nuns Priests narration by Geoffrey ChaucerThe Nuns Priests level by Geoffrey ChaucerThe use of living creatures in the autobiographys The Nuns Priests story by Geoffrey Chaucer and The Company of Wolves by Angela Carter allows the reader to further take the meaning that the composer has created within the text. The Nuns Priests Tale is an example of Chaucer testing the bounds of a beast fable genre. savage fable is a tale where animals are used as embodiments or caricatures of human virtues, vices, prudences, and follies and other typical qualities of mankind. (Coghill Tolkien 12). The Company of Wolves is the reconstruction of the folktale Little Red Riding Hood. The female character in the narrative ends up in the wolfs arms instead of his stomach contradictory to the milksop tale which challenges the narrative of masculine desire. With these examples we can clearly see the animal influence within these texts.Geoffrey Chaucer was an English author who wrote many works, he is ruff remembered for his frame narrative The Canterbury Tales. The Nuns Priests Tale is a part of The Cantebury Tales which tells a tale of an old woman who had a small farm in which she kept animals, including a rooster named Chantecleer. Chantecleer had seven hens as his companions, the most honored of which was Pertelote. Chantecleer does indeed represent abstarct ideas and represents them in a way the is subtle, changing and often ironic Chantecleer himself never becomes a undefiled abstraction. He is a very engaging creation in a very real world ( Stephen Coote 52). The idea of a rooster universe able to hold such qualities those of human beings, reinforces Chaucers numbers as a particlar form of comic wisdom (Coote 33), through the use of barnyard animals. The poem begins with the romance between Chantecleer and Pertelote. Romance being a genre ordinarily featuring noble knights and their ladies, evokes the comical view of such heroic tradit ions with the use of animals. Chantecleers first introduction is that In all the land, at crowing hed no peer (Geoffrey Chaucer 203). In this context, the description of Chantecleer evokes humor at the heroic traditions of that time on two counts. One is that crowing (203) is not a heroic form and secondly that it is not particularly move that he does it well seeing as though he is a rooster, and that it is naturally what they do. The rooster is then described from his comb (203) right bring to his nails with the colours of flowers and jewels. This is very strange when it is applied to Chantecleer, as this method is usually employed when describing a beautiful woman. Ironically this description of Chantecleer fits perfectly, reminding us of the prideful beauty of this animal.