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Canterbury
Title: Canterbury
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 789 | Pages: 3.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Canterbury
The Clerk’s Tale is an indirect response to the Wife of Bath who
stated that women desire complete sovereignty over their
husbands and lovers. The Clerk puts forth a diametrically
opposite view and draws the sketch of a totally submissive
woman.
Chaucer’s source for the Clerk’s tale is Petrarch’s ‘Fable of
Obedience and Wifely Faith’ written in Latin that was in turn
derived from Boccaccio’s ‘Decameron’. Chaucer closely follows
Petrarch’…showed first 75 words of 789 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 789 total…and openly praises him. There are no ironic overtones
in the Clerk’s portrait apart from the pun on his being a
philosopher and yet being poor. In the Middle Ages, a
philosopher also implied an alchemist who claimed to transform
base metals into silver and gold. Chaucer’s Clerk does not have
gold in his coffer. He is a serious student of logic and philosophy
and has willingly forfeited worldly pleasures for intellectual
enrichment.
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