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    The Prioress in The Canterbury Tales is described as attractive but not truly devoted to her religious vows of chastity, obedience, and poverty. She cares more about appearing fashionable and upper class. Her tale depicts Jews killing a boy singing a religious song, similar to how she pushes away God and her vows to focus on herself. Chaucer included the Prioress as a character who is traveling on a pilgrimage but also cares more about worldly things than religion, like the monk and friar. Although going on a pilgrimage to be closer to God, these characters are more devoted to themselves.

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    The Prioress in The Canterbury Tales is described as attractive but not truly devoted to her religious vows of chastity, obedience, and poverty. She cares more about appearing fashionable and upper class. Her tale depicts Jews killing a boy singing a religious song, similar to how she pushes away God and her vows to focus on herself. Chaucer included the Prioress as a character who is traveling on a pilgrimage but also cares more about worldly things than religion, like the monk and friar. Although going on a pilgrimage to be closer to God, these characters are more devoted to themselves.

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    The Prioress in The Canterbury Tales is described as attractive but not truly devoted to her religious vows of chastity, obedience, and poverty. She cares more about appearing fashionable and upper class. Her tale depicts Jews killing a boy singing a religious song, similar to how she pushes away God and her vows to focus on herself. Chaucer included the Prioress as a character who is traveling on a pilgrimage but also cares more about worldly things than religion, like the monk and friar. Although going on a pilgrimage to be closer to God, these characters are more devoted to themselves.

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    The passage provides details about the character of the Prioress in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. Specifically, it discusses her physical appearance, personality traits, and how she differs from her religious vows despite being a nun. It also compares her to other characters like the Monk and Friar.

    The passage describes the Prioress as attractive but also notes she has an enormous forehead. It says she wants to appear upper class so she speaks with a fake French accent. It also says she is messy when eating but cleans her face to appear sophisticated.

    The Prioress' tale features Jews pushing away a boy singing a religious song, who is then murdered. This reveals the Prioress, like the Jews, pushes away God and her vows to focus on her self-image.

    Jimenez 1

    Isabella Jimenez
    Ms. Gordon
    English IV, Block E
    November 4, 2015
    The Canterbury Tales - The Prioress
    1. YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd7xj_EdeBs
    2.
    The Prioress in The Canterbury Tales is seen as attractive. She is a heavy lady with a red
    mouth and grey eyes and she has an enormous forehead. Although she is supposed to vow
    chastity, obedience, and poverty, she actually does not. She is attracted more to fashionable
    society than to the convent (Hallissy par 4). She wants to be seen as an upper class woman so
    she speaks formally in a French accent, yet she does not know any French at all. Moreover, she
    dresses in an elegant fashion. She is also a messy person when eating, but she cleans up her face
    after she is done to show how sophisticated she is. The Prioress does not want help the poor, she
    only wants to help herself. The Prioress tale gives insight to her personality by having the Jews
    in her tale push away the boy who is singing the religious song. The Jews hire a murderer and
    kill the boy. The Prioress is just like the Jews in this tale because she is pushing away God and
    her religious vows and focusing more on her self-image.
    3.
    Geoffrey Chaucer included this character in the story because he is traveling on a
    pilgrimage, which is a journey to a sacred or religious place. Since the Prioress is devoted to
    God, Chaucer includes this character to travel with him on his pilgrimage. Chaucer likes the
    Prioress and is actually attracted to her. Chaucer likes her because of her elegance and charm. He
    says that Her way of smiling very simple and coy (Chaucer 123). Also he says that her nose
    was elegant, her eyes glass-grey (Chaucer 157). The Prioress fits in with the other characters
    because Chaucer includes other characters who are also devoted to God but they are actually not.
    These characters are the monk and the friar. The monk is similar to the Prioress physically in that
    He was a fat and personable priest (Chaucer 204). Also the monk prefers to hunt than help the
    poor just like the Prioress focuses prefers to be upper class than helping the poor. The friar is also

    Jimenez 2
    similar to the Prioress in that instead of weeping and or prayer one should give silver for a
    poor Friars care (Chaucer 236). He makes money for a gift and steals money from the poor.
    Although the Prioress, monk, and friar go on this pilgrimage to be closer to God, they actually
    care more about themselves.

    Jimenez 3
    Works Cited
    Hallissy, Margaret. The Prioress from A Companion to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
    Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., www.greenwood.com.1995.
    http://eolit.hrw.com/hlla/writersmodel/pdf/W_P1201.pdfNovember2,2015.
    GeoffreyChaucer:CanterburyTales,PrioressPrologueandTale.
    http://eolit.hrw.com/hlla/writersmodel/pdf/W_P1201.pdfNovember3,2015
    Chaucer,Geoffrey.TheCanterburyTale.PrenticeHallLiteratureTheBritishTradition.Pearson
    Education,Inc.2012

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