ENG202Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Geoffrey Chaucer, Anchorite, Sir Thopas
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Opens all wrapped in sorrow" shepherds complaining. Medieval anchorites (or anchoress when a women) . Sheep in cradle jesus as sacrifice. Instead of death penalty the peasants settle for tossing him in blanket: playful conclusion recognizes crime wasn"t motivated by avarice but by hunger and the concludes speaking of forgiveness. Shepherds reveal nativity story is continually reenacted. Quote discussion on page 215: 417. These three things came to my mind in the time: that is so reverend and dreadful, is so homely and so courteous : center of her thinking; problem of hell. She sees sin in the sense that she sees its consequences, the suffering people experience, but didn"t see anything that you could call sin itself (no positives) Not until additional revelation does she understand god perceives humanity as a mother perceives her child: 421. This farily lovely word mother it is so sweet and so kind in itself that it may not : aesthetic, affective, memorializing.
