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Question 1

“ smal degree” “beautee hadde greet renoun” “in the toune”

Answer 1

-settled for someone of low class because of her surpassing physical appreance
-shows the dangers
-heirarchal society of Chaucer time as she may be a gold digger as she lives in town, not very lady like
- doesn’t even know her name only her physical state

Question 2

“ ‘thanne is’ quode he”

Answer 2

-free indirect speech
- so some of Jans attitudes are conveyed through his actual words whilst simultaneously being undermined by the controlling narrative voice

Question 3

“Blisses too” “wo and stryf” “alle wedded men”

Answer 3

-direct voice helps build anticipation of what is to come through further techniques of irony
- jans descriotion of his anticipated marriage states it will be blissfully but also provides the alternative possibility that it will be full of woe and stryfe
-these words will trigger the readers recollection of the merchants description of his marriage, jan on cue asserts all wedded men live in happiness with their wife fatally undermining his credibility

Question 4

“Hevene in erthe” “live in swich plesaunce”

Answer 4

This idea that marriage will be heaven on earth and that his soul will be thereby threaten by such excessive happiness is ludicrous
- the reader will remember the wife of baths tale who speculates that she gave her husbands such a bad time in this life that she probably secured them a place in heaven