Paragraphs Canterbury Tales

The Pardoner's Tale Paragraph

A morality tale is a fable and a folk tale mix. It has common happenings and settings like a folk tale, and a moral.The Pardoner's Tale is a morality tale because it has the proper structure and elements. There is a moral at the end of the story,  'if you go looking for Death- don't be surprised if you find him!' Tom, Dick and Harry are archetypes of characters from their time. they are greedy trouble makers.They go looking for death and find him as they die. They go to though the woods and they find an old man and find out that the old man (catalyst) 'saw' death at an oak tree. When Tom, Dick and Harry get to the oak tree they find a three piles of gold. Then their greed makes them kill each other.In this tale Tom, Dick and harry prove that being greedy and evil is really bad and teaches us a good lesson about not being greedy and putting others before our selves. Therefore the Pardoner's Tale is a Morality Tale.


The Nun's Priest's Tale Paragraph

A Fable has talking animals and a moral at the end of the story. The Nun's Priest's tale is a fable because it has all the requirements of a fable. There are talking animals. 'Pull yourself together, you silly bird!' or 'Just listen to this.' There is also a moral to this story; 'flattery can get yourself into trouble' and 'you should keep your mouth shut when it should be.' Chaunticleer is the protagonist as she makes the fox look dumb and makes him go away. Chaunticleer has a terrible dream, it then comes true. A fox gets to her habitat and asks her to stretch her neck and sing, as her father was a great singer. She does that, but then Sir Russell Fox gets her by the neck and takes her away. She then tells the fox to shout at the angry following villagers. As he does this he lets Chaunticleer go and she flies up into a tree. In this tale Chaunticleer and Sir Russell Fox prove that flattery is a really bad thing and teaches us a good lesson about keeping our mouth shut. Therefore the Nun's Priest's Tale is a fable.


The Knight's Tale Paragraph

This is an explanation of the genre of the knight's tale. A chivalric romance story has knights in a courteous and loving way. The knight's tale is a chivalric romance because it has the proper structure and elements to be.
They are a 'parody' of the real life knights. They fight: 'I fall of my horse! I'm hurt! I die!' or they love: 'I'm in love with her too.' This story explains that love is better than the fight. They are also more romantic and civilised than in real life.
Two prisoners in Greece (Palamon and Arcite) are in  love with a beautiful princess and always fight and quibble of who loves her (Emily) the most. one day they fight so much the king stops them by announcing a joust for the beautiful princess. They have the joust, Arcite wins, but then a thunder bolt kills him, the hand of Emily goes to Palamon.Palamon and Arcite prove, as they fight to the death for a princess, that they have all the requirements for being romantic and chivalric. Therefore this should conclude that the knight's tale is a chivalric romance.


The Wife of Bath Tale Paragraph

This is an explanation of the genre of the Wife of Bath tale. A Folk tale has common happenings and settings.
The wife of bath tale is a folk tale, because it has all the requirements of a folk tale.
A folk tale is a simple and common tale.
There are common people, and common happenings and show a realistic story and sometimes explain things about life in a simple, logical way, like; 'That's the marriage over, and now I think we should leave them alone together!' and 'Why is there never a priest around when you want one?'. Or this one: 'What women most desire is to have dominion and power over their husbands...'
Sir Codsbrain is a chivalric knight. Really interested in women, he finds a beautiful maiden and tries to pick her up, but she fights back. King Author and Queen Guinevere happen to walk past and stop Codsbrain, the queen sentences him to death. She gives him one chance though. He has to come back with the answer of what women most desire, in a month. He is on his journey back without the answer and he meets an old smelly ugly women and asks her what the answer is she tells him on one condition- he does what ever she asks him to do. He tells the answer to the queen but she finds out that he got it from the old woman. She asks what is the question, it is so that the ugly woman is to marry Codsbrain.In this tale we can read about some common people like Sir Codsbrain, Queen Guinevere and the Old Woman. Their story  is a realistic explanation about lessons or happenings in life like the consequences of being mean (bad), searching for an answer and paying a price for your actions.Therefor we can conclude that the wife of bath tale is a folk tale.