Nuns Priests Tale
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In his masterpiece, Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer displays extraordinary talent of characterization and his gift of providing insight into human characteristics and condition. In his distinct, witty style, Chaucer especially demonstrates this skill in the Nun's Priests Tale. Chaucer uses specific details and amusing anecdotes to illustrate the good humored and good-natured Chauntecleer and Pertelote. The Nun's Priest's Tale has a moral, just like most of the other tales, that causes the reader to have to decide between fate and free will, and whether or not dreams are, in fact, a foretelling of the future.
Geoffrey Chaucer's tales of the Canterbury Tales are all written in rhymed couplets of iambic pentameter. They are also written in seven line stanzas. It is a parody, or a humorous interpretation. An example from the story when this occurs would be the fact that Pertelote, the woman fowl, believes that dreams are nothing but hogwash and are caused by gas. In turn, she tells Chauntecleer to take a laxative and to be a braver man and just go to sleep. The fact that they are fowl also makes the tale quite amusing...