Chaucers Canterbury Tales - The Nun’s Priest’s Tale :: Nun’s Priest’s Tale Essays

The Nuns Priests Tale The tale told by the Nuns Priest is a fable or chronicle with animals as the main characters and usually ends with a moral of some sort. This tale takes place on the farm of and old, poor widow. All that she posses can be summed up in a few lines. It is among her possessions that we find the rooster Chanticleer, whos crowing is more precise than any clock and a voice that was jollier than any church service organ. The tale is told from the point-of-view of Chanticleer. One night he has the moon of a obnubilate pursuing him and killing him. W chick he wakes, his wife, Lady Pertelote tries to convince him that it was just a dream and that it has no meaning. Chanticleer argues with Pertelote and produces a tale of his own. This is the tale of two young travelers who in search of lodging must separate. One of the travelers found a bed in a farmers barn, the other in a lodge of some type. In the night, one of the travelers hears his friend in a dream employme nt out for help. He says that he is to be murdered for his money and his body is to be hidden in a dung cart at the air jacket end of town. In the morning, the man goes in search of is friend and discovers him dead in exact location that he learned from his dream. Chanticleer uses this story to try and manifest to Pertelote that dream have meaning. The fox enters the scene the next morning as the hens and Chanticleer come down from their roost to feed and relax in the sun. The fox waits and watches Chanticleer and the hens for a good bit of the day from a nearby cabbage patch. However, right before he is about to crow, Chanticleer catches a glimpse of the fox and silences himself. The fox sensing that his meal maybe lost quickly comes up with a new scheme to trick Chanticleer. He instantly claims to be neighbourly and means no harm towards Chanticleer. He then uses flattery on Chanticleer, convincing him that the fox came only to hear his beautiful voice and how he had been dela y so long to hear it, this tricks Chanticleer into lowering his guard, it is at that moment that the fox strikes and runs with the almost lifeless body of Chanticleer towards the woods.