TMT Class/power

Question 1

Tina Davidson: ‘Chaucer is able to set up…’

Answer 1

‘Chaucer is able to set up the stereotypical denouncement of the fabilaux…the young, the socially inferior, or the wives to triumph over the powerful, the old, the prosperous and the pretentious’

Question 2

Pearsall: ‘image of sexual possession as…’

Answer 2

‘Image of sexual possession as eating, the fantasies of prolonged rape, the haste, the barrel full of aphrodisiacs give a partly comic effect but always with an undertone of disgust’
- 20th century
Disagree with idea that forbidden action of januarie is ‘comic’ as all the actions he does are against religious doctrines, Chaucer wouldn’t want to disrespect religion, januarie’s wrongdoings act as a warning to the readers instead of humouring them