Chaucer's Constance: Pale and Passive
- Author / Editor
- Manning, Stephen.
Chaucer's Constance: Pale and Passive
- Published
- Edward Vasta and Zacharias P. Thundy, ed. Chaucerian Problems and Perspectives: Essays Presented to Paul E. Beichner, C. S. C. (Notre Dame, Ind.: Univeristy of Notre Dame Press, 1979), pp. 13-23.
- Description
- Constance is not the passive ninny she has been accused of being. She possesses a presence which demands and receives forcible response; she moves in her world with self-sufficiency; her virtue is heroic; her ability to accept what God sends gives her an imposing strength. Constance's force of soul is such that she can remain detached from what befalls her. She is always aware of the emotional cost of yielding to Providence.
- Alternative Title
- Chaucerian Problems and Perspectives: Essays Presented to Paul E. Beichner, C. S. C.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.