The Concept of Destiny and Free Will in Chauntecleer's Dream
- Author / Editor
- Zuraikat, Malek J.
The Concept of Destiny and Free Will in Chauntecleer's Dream
- Published
- Orbis Litterarum: International Review of Literary Studies 78 (2023): 205-16.
- Description
- Contends that NPT "shows how free will and destiny . . . mysteriously connive together to form what can be called 'conditional free will'," arguing that the combination of Chauntecleer's dream and the outcome of the plot compromise Augustinian, Bradwardinian, and Boethian ideas so that while the dream destines the encounter between fox and rooster, the cock's escape depends upon his will to survive and Russell's will to speak. Surveys related criticism.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Nun's Priest and His Tale
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations