Brooke Frelich 11/02/2010 6:03 PM |
The Summoner's Tale is an Anti-frateral satire because the Summoner is deliberately pointing out the Friars' faults. This type of satire was used in the medieval times to show the hypocrisy of others. The Summoner is trying to show the other guests that the Friar may seem like a nice man that works for the church, but he uses that outer shell to protect who really is.
In the Medieval times the Summoner job was to deliver a summon to alledge public sinners, so that they may be prosecuted in the courts. The Pardoner's job is to pardon people of their sin's based on the list of crimes that the church feels is forgivable. A Friars job is to help people that have committed crime to give them a pray for absolution. All of the jobs listed above are done through the church, for a price. These jobs are all done for the benefit of the people in the church, so that they may be granted forgiveness. The people in the church would have only needed one of these men to grant them forgiveness, so they were all in competition with one another. |
Jon Van Schyndel 11/01/2010 9:02 PM |
The Summoner uses anti-fraternal satire in an angry way to show his dislike toward the friar, he uses very descriptive language to give you a sense of the actual anger toward him and is not afraid on how to do so. The summoner tells how the friar fails at a lot of his "rich attempts" at making money and how they back fire, the summoner also tells how the friar is a huge hypocrite by just describing his everyday life and how he preaches and uses it against everyone for his own good. I think that Friars were rivals with summoners just because they were so boastful and thought that they were higher on the "God Scale" (Closer to heaven) then everyone else and if it was not for the summoner a lot of the friars listeners would not be there. Friars were rivals with pardoners for most of the same reasons they thought just because they were preaching Gods words means they get more pull with the man up stairs. I see the Summoner and Pardoners being rivals just on the off hand that summoners brought all the sinners to the pardoner and the summoners never received enough credit for it and that could easily be that the pardoner and the friar do so much more that last so much longer than just brining someone some where, so the summoner gets looked over by a lot of men and women and feel they should have more credit.
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Jon Van Schyndel 11/01/2010 8:32 PM |
To Both Brooke and Brittney
I agree, for the summoner hits all the points of the friar being a hypocrite and it is easy to see. The summoner uses his words to show how greedy the friar is, so to say all of this is pretty accurate with what all the post on this question has been |
Miss Schultz 10/30/2010 1:13 PM |
How is the Summoner's tale an anti-fraternal satire? (look this term up online) Also, I want you to think about this tale historically: Using what you know from the general prologue to the Canterbury Tales, how were friars, summoner's and pardoners economic rivals during the Middle Ages?
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Brittany Brick 10/27/2010 2:37 PM |
To Brooke's blog: I agree with the fact that the Friar is being selfish and that he cheats people. I argree that he is evil with the fact that he steals money from the people adn how he is very greedy.
To John's blog: I agree that the Friar thinks he can do whatever he wants and that he is cocky. I also just realized that the Friar is a hyprocite! |
Brooke Frelich 10/25/2010 10:47 AM |
The Summoner satirizes the Friar throughout the entire tale by telling how he cheats people and pointing out his hypocrisy. The Tale begins with the Friar preaching to the congregation on how they should give more to the church. This was his way to steal money from the people. The Summoner tells how the Friar and his companion go from house to house begging for meals and telling people that he will pray for them. After he leaves each home he erases their name from the ivory tablets. When the Friar gets to Thomas’s home he sees that he is bedridden. The Friar tells him that he is sick because he does not give enough to the Friars. Although the Friar tells him that he lives in poverty and in abstinence because worldly desires are worthless, the Friar continues to ask for more worldly possessions. I believe Chaucer agrees with the satire because the Friar is greedy and selfish. He also makes himself sound like the good guy when he really is not. Thus I believe Chaucer finds it necessary to throw a punch back at the Friar. |
Jon Van Schyndel 10/25/2010 10:16 AM |
The Summoner is one who does not like the frair at all he sees the friar is this huge hypocrit who cheats anyone just so he can make a penny and will do anything to show his passion for any girl not caring about the others feelings. If I were chaucer I ould totally agree with the Summoner The friar is this cocky man who thinks he can do anything when ever he wants and can get away with it. The Friar goes from house to house just to find good refreshments are you kidding me, thats just not right.
The reason I am giving this so late is, my mom works at home and she uses a different internet connection that disrupts our regular internet so we can't use it when shes working, and she was working all weekend. |
Brittany Brick 10/23/2010 7:14 PM |
The Summoner does satirize the Friar. He basically makes the friar seem as if he is all that or important but he really isn't. The Friar acts as if he is helping others but he was begging for the money and was begging for charity. The Friar goes to visit Thomas and tells him about his sermon that he preched that day. They talked about Thomas's illness and the Friar told him that his illness persists because he didn't given enough to the church. The Friar gets upset about the fact that Thomas won't pay him. I think that Chaucer does agree with this satire because he thinks that the friar is selfish and understands why the Summoner is criticizing him and basically making fun of him because he may come off as a good guy but really isn't. |
Miss Schultz 10/18/2010 10:42 AM |
The Summoner's Tale is a "fierce counterpunch" to the preceding tale by the Friar which was an attack on Summoners. How does The Summoner satirize Friars in his tale? Do you think Chaucer agrees with his satire? Why or why not? Be sure to include examples from the text. |