The Friar's Tale and Divine Justice: The Reality and the Fiction of Righteous Anger

Author / Editor
Griffith, John Lance.

Title
The Friar's Tale and Divine Justice: The Reality and the Fiction of Righteous Anger

Published
NTU [National Taiwan University] Studies in Language and Literature 18 (2007): 37-59.

Description
The exemplary value of FrT is rendered complex by its setting within the Canterbury fiction and by the angered antagonism between Friar and Summoner. Chaucer places the story "in a human situation . . . to engage our understanding of the way in which the sin of anger, the response to that sin, and the claim for just anger operate in the everyday world." Misused "narratives of divine anger" lead to "hell."

Chaucer Subjects
Friar and His Tale
Summoner and His Tale