The Genre of "The
Nun's Priest's Tale¡¨
I.
The definition of the beast fable
A. One of the most popular stories in the Middle Ages.
B. A story about animals, which are the embodiments of typical human
qualities.
C. These cautionary anecdotes are brief.
D. Carrying only one simple moral.
II. The
genre "The Nun's Priest's Tale"
A. The Romance about nobility and courtly love.
B. Rhetorical debate over the significance of dreams.
C. Christian misogyny.
D. "The Nun's Priest's Tale"expands the form of traditional beast fable
and enriches the content of it.
III.The
Nun's Priest's Tale" is more than a traditional simple beast fable
A. We have more than one moral.
B. It contains other genres with the form of beast fable.
IV. Why
Chaucer craft this story in that way
A. Suggesting the passive readers should select what is valuable in a
tale.
B. Without a fixed moral we gain the insight of the complexity of human
nature.