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The document provides background information on the Summoner character from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. It describes the Summoner as having narrow eyes, a thin beard, and smelling of garlic and onions. It also discusses how he is portrayed as a drunk and how children are afraid of him. The summary discusses how the Summoner tells a story mocking Friars and involving a Friar putting his hand in a sick man's buttocks and receiving a fart in response. The theme is presented as satirizing Friars due to the Summoner's disdain for the Friar he travels with. The genre is identified as mock heroic as it ridicules the Friar.
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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales follows a group of 29 pilgrims traveling from London to Canterbury to visit the shrine of St. Thomas Becket. To pass the time during their 55 mile journey, they agree to engage in a storytelling contest where each pilgrim will tell two stories on the way to Canterbury and two on the return, with the best storyteller receiving a prize. However, Chaucer only wrote 24 tales from the journey to Canterbury, giving insight into some of the pilgrims and their stories but not completing the full frame tale. The pilgrims represent different social classes and occupations of late medieval English society.
Middle Ages, Chaucer, and The Canterbury Tales
Here are some key details about the characters that help give an immediate impression:
- The Pardoner is dishonest and exploits people for money
- The Summoner has an unclean/unhealthy appearance
- The Knight and Squire are well-traveled and experienced warriors
- The Monk seems hypocritical - well-fed but something seems off
- The Yeoman's arrows suggest he is a hunter
- The Guildsmen think highly of themselves
- The Prioress is refined and well-educated
- The Plowman is hard-working and honest
- The Parson lives an exemplary life and is unlike the corrupt clergy
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