'The Clerk's Tale'

Author / Editor
Paris, Bernard J.

Title
'The Clerk's Tale'

Published
Chapter 5 in Imagined Human Beings: A Psychological Approach to Character and Conflict in Literature (New York and London: New York University Press, 1997), pp. 82-92.

Description
Psychoanalyzes Walter of ClT as one who tests Griselda's submissiveness to assure his own freedom and to vindicate his choice of her as a wife. Griselda seeks personal glory in her subservience. They are "two sick people in a pathological relationship, and Chaucer seems aware of this."

Alternative Title
Imagined Human Beings: A Psychological Approach to Character and Conflict in Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Clerk and His Tale.