Reader week 3

Question 1

1380

Answer 1

Chaucer accused of rape

Question 2

Estates satire

Answer 2

survey of the estates where each is denounced for its failure to live up top the socially necessary duties which it should perform

Often special attention for failings of the clergy

Question 3

Chaucers inspo for pilgrims

Answer 3

Langland’s Piers Plowman

Question 4

Ideal embodiments of 3 estates

Answer 4

Knight, pious Parson, patient Ploughman

Question 5

Downfall of the friars

Answer 5

abandoning the ideals of their founders
(cultivating rich and powerful, hypocrisy, wealth, whoring)
often compared to the proud and hypocritical Pharisees of Matthew 23
‘psuedoapostoli’
Chaucer’s Friar Huberd and Friar John (esp. hypocrisy, not lechery)

Question 6

Chaucer undermining estates satire

Answer 6

by replacing heated invective and moral denunciation with ambiguity, irony and detatchment