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Let us each hold up his hand and swear that we will stand by one another like brothers and kill this traitor Death. Listen to me, fellows: we are all agreed. "I tell you I'll go to seek him by street and by lane I vow I will. "And you call it such a peril to meet him?" said one of the revelers.
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My word upon it, it needs a pretty wise man to be on his guard against him." "Why, in the great village over yonder, only a mile from here, Death has slain man, woman, child, page, and hind within this one year. "The boy tells the truth," declared the tavern-keeper. My mother used to tell me to see to it well that I was ready to meet him." That old fellow kills all the people in the country hereabouts he struck down a thousand the last time of pestilence. He was sitting on a bench dead drunk last night, and a sly old thief that they call Death came upon him suddenly and thrust a spear through his heart, and the man fell over dead. "Sir, there is no need of asking," the boy replied, "for I knew two hours and more ago who was to be buried this morning, and surely there is no need of telling you, for he was an old companion of yours. "Boy," the first called tipsily to the waiter, "do you go and ask the corpse's name, and see that you don't forget it on the way back." "What's that?" one asked, and another replied, "Nothing but the jingling of a bell before a corpse." The tinkling of a bell was heard from the street. It was not yet nine o'clock, but these young rioters did not even await the coming of night for their orgies, and though it was so early, they had already emptied many cups. My story is a truly moral tale about three of these revelers who sat together in a tavern one morning.
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They gambled, they gorged themselves with the richest viands, they drank till they could not have told whether they were men or beasts, and they swore such terrible oaths that it would freeze one's blood to hear them. How do the pilgrims decide who will begin the storytelling? The draw straws, the shortest straw tells the first story.THERE once lived in Flanders a company of wild young men who gave themselves up to foolish revelry. What will the winner receive? The host will join the group and serve as the judge. How will the host decide the winner Canterbury Tales? Chaucer decides to create the character of the pardoner to prove his point. Chaucer wants to attack the church’s hypocrisy. The Church is the first institution that Chaucer attacks using satire in The Canterbury Tales. In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer uses satire to attack the Church, the Patriarchy, and the Nobility. Who does Chaucer satirize in The Canterbury Tales? What do lines 781-803 suggest about his character? He is a very polite, considerate gentleman. How do you think the narrator feels about the host? The narrator really admires the host, and thinks he is a very striking, wise, generous man. What the Host describes is a tale-telling game, in which each pilgrim shall tell two tales on the way to Canterbury, and two more on the way home whoever tells the tale ‘of best sentence and moost solas’ shall have supper at the cost of all of the other pilgrims, back at the Inn, once the pilgrimage returns from … What do you learn about the host in these lines How do you think the narrator feels about the host? What is the game that the host suggests the pilgrims play?
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A free dinner at the Tabard paid for by all the other pilgrims is the prize. What competition does the Host propose? What is the prize for the winner? Storytelling to and from Canterbury. What does the host propose as a prize for the best storyteller? The point of this is that the telling of the tales will help to pass the time on the long journey. The Host’s plan is that each pilgrim will tell two tales on the way to Canterbury and two more on the way back to London. What is the host proposal in Canterbury Tales? Supposedly pious religious figures are shown to be corrupt and greedy just underneath the surface. The Nun’s Priest’s tale satirizes courtly love by putting chivalry in the setting of a barnyard. The social satire that the Host sets up in the General Prologue continues throughout the tales that the pilgrims tell. There is a punishment for anyone who complains about his decision and a reward for the best tale. What plan for the group does the host propose? The host decides that everyone will tell a story on the way there and the way back. In Middle England, The Host belonged to the “Elite” because he was an innkeeper. He establishes the main frame narrative of the Tales, since he is the one who proposes the tale-telling game and sets the rules that it will follow.
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The Host at the Tabard Inn, Harry Bailly, is a jolly, lively tavern-keeper.
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