English Literature The Nuns Priests Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer

English Literature The nun buoys Priests recital by Geoffrey ChaucerThe Nuns Priests Tale by Geoffrey ChaucerThe engagement of animals in the narratives The Nuns Priests Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer and The Company of Wolves by Angela Carter allows the reader to further understand 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. Beast fable is a tale where animals argon 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 constitution in the narrative ends up in the wolfs arms instead of his stomach contradictory to the fairy tale which challenges the narrative of masculine desire. With these examples we can clearly affect the animal influence within these texts.Geoffrey Chaucer was an English auth or who wrote many works, he is best 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 mere abstraction. He is a very engaging creation in a very real world ( Stephen Coote 52). The idea of a rooster existence able to hold such(prenominal) qualities those of human beings, reinforces Chaucers poem 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 usually featuring noble knights and their ladies, evokes the comical view of such heroic traditi ons with the use of animals. Chantecleers first introduction is that In all the land, at gasconade 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 surprising 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 down 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 employ when describing a beautiful woman. Ironically this description of Chantecleer fits perfectly, reminding us of the swaggering beauty of this animal.