ENGL 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hosiery, Double Entendre, Domestic Violence
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How does the work transition the end of the middle ages to the beginning of the. Decline of the medieval society (estate system breaking down) Commoners entering first estate in ways of rising in society. His avoidance of the very people he should be helping, instead hobnobbing with the people of influence. Double entendre of knowing everyone in the tavern. Worthy -- in a more ironic context (whereas in the knight, it is more true to word) (summoner, second to last pilgrim has more likely context of knowing -- men and women; bisexual) After line 243, the narrator seems to paraphrase the friar"s justification. Monk: hunting and not being bound by monastic rule. Friar: avoiding the poor and socializing with the rich and so on. My wit is short, may ye well understand. This is information i am passing that they has imparted to me.
