ENG202Y1 Lecture Notes - Courtly Love, Bagpipes, Fabliau
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What is the relationship between the description ( in the general prologue), and the tale of each of the pilgrims. The millers: the descriptions (p. 246, lines 544 66) Knocked that the door by kicking it and ramming with his head. Not well rounded individual compared to the knight. Vulgar, kind of joker, rowdy, drunk a lot, always playing the bag pipe, full of hot air in a lot of senses. Willing to trick people for his own gains. He is not only vulgar tale that we see here, and not the only character to have this vulgarity. The nose"s description: bushy beard, his mouth is like a big fernus. The words to describe him: comparisons to animals and their body parts, all is use to put him in a lower level. He is a wrestler: physical presence, violent, bit of a dumb fellow, dirty jokes.
