Essay On Naps Priest's Tale

“The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” as a Beast Fable Over many centuries, the beast fable has been used to entertain those of all ages. In “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale,” Chaucer utilized the literary forms of the beast fable. The beast fable contained a moral lesson, used animals to satirize human behavior, and uses multiple sub-genres to create a beast fable that provides more entertainment value and humor. “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” is about a rooster in a barnyard who has what he takes to be a prophetic dream in which a hound like beast enters the yard. One of this hens heard him groaning, and after she wakes him, they engage in a debate over whether or not the dream is a forecast of things to come. However, in spite of his own argument that the dream
This is morally sound from the point of view. In brief, all the lessons drawn at the end of the story prove that the human heart always has an underlying desire (Bloom 120). Through Chaunticleer;s actions that allow him to succumb to flattery, it is evident that all his true hearts desire is to be loved by all. Therefore, he is able to fall to the fox’s flattery and get
Chaunticleer warns against being blind, presumably to flattery, but it is only by using flattery that he manages to escape from the fox; while he does seem to survive only be appealing to the pride of someone else, even when he came to the realization of the danger of pride. After Chaunticleer moralizes on what happened to him, he was able to draw a lesson that was not so straightforwardly moral as it seems (Bloom 120). “Never again shall you with your flattery get me to sing with my eyes closed. For he who closes his eyes when he should watch, God let him never prosper” (Cooney 30). In this quote from the children's book remake of the famous take, Chaunticleer expresses that his eyes were closed when he was singing for the fox. This could be a metaphor for not seeing the true intentions of the fox’s heart. Since lying is one of the seven deadly sins, Chaunticleer states that those who prey on those who have their eyes closed, or those who are under false pretense, are those who will suffer in the end. “No, but God bring misfortune to him who is so careless about his self-control as to prattle when he should hold his peace” (Cooney