Summary and Analysis of The Summoners Tale :: Canterbury Tales The Summoners Tale Essays

Summary and Analysis of The Summoners Tale (The Canterbury Tales)Prologue to the Summoners TaleThe Summoner was raging by the tale that the mendicant told. He claims in response to the Friar that friars and fiends are one and the same. He tells that a friar once was brought to fossa by an angel and remarked that he saw no friars there. However, Satan raise his tail and thousands of friars came out from his ass and swarmed around hell. AnalysisThe Summoner becomes insane with fretfulness upon hearing the Friars Tale, which, although it was told with great vitriol against summoners, had a measured manner and refrained from own(prenominal) attacks. Where the Friar was intensely contemptuous yet civil, the Summoner becomes a brutish and ill-tempered barbarian. Rather than combating the image that Friars Tale had given of his profession, the Summoner confirms the worst to the highest degree the emit qualities of his kind. The Summoners TaleA friar went to preach and beg in a mars hy region of Yorkshire called Holderness. In his sermons he begged for donations for the church and afterward he begged for charity from the local residents. He went to the house of Thomas, a local resident who normally indulged him, and found him ill. The friar speaks of the sermon he gave and essentially orders a meal from Thomass wife. She tells the friar that her child died not more than two weeks before. The friar claimed that he had a revelation that her child had died and entered heaven. He claims that his fellow friars had a similar vision, for they are more privy to Gods messages than laymen, who live richly on earth, as compared to richly spiritually. He speaks about how, among the clergy, only friars remain impoverished and thus close to God, and tells Thomas that his illness persists because he has given so little to the church. When Thomas remarks that his wife is angry, the friar launches into a tirade about the ill effects of ire in men of high degree. He tells the tale of an angry king who sentenced a knight to death because he returned without his partner and automatically assumed that he had murdered him. When a tertiary knight lead the condemned knight to his death, they found the knight that he had purportedly murdered. When the third knight returned to the king to have the sentenced reversed, the king sentenced all triple to death the first because he had originally declared it so, the second because he was the cause of the firsts death, and the third because he did not obey the king.