The Function of Pity in Three Canterbury Tales
- Author / Editor
- Harding, Wendy.
The Function of Pity in Three Canterbury Tales
- Published
- Chaucer Review 32 (1997): 162-74.
- Description
- Chaucerian pathos derives from the rigidity of fourteenth-century social hierarchies. In KnT, pity brings the ruler and ruled closer together; ClT advocates Christ-like endurance and humility for the weak and God-like justice and mercy for the powerful. In ParsT, power and weakness, glory and humiliation are united in one paradoxical form.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.
- Clerk and His Tale.
- Parson and His Tale.