852 words of an in-depth description of the Prioress Character from the Prologue of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. Shows how Chaucer made fun of the character of the Prioress when writing his Canterbury tales. Chaucer's description of The Prioress in The Canterbury Tales (1472) is rife with subtle, witty comments that show with irony that The Prioress is not the coy, sweet stereotypical church figure the narrator may have perceived her to be, but more a pseudo …
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…she bar" her headdress was pleated, full becoming was her cloak, as I was aware, of dainty coral around her arm she bear". Wears a bright gold broch "saying "love conquers all" a statement at the Church "A paire of bedes, gauded al with greene, And tehreon heeng, a brooch of gold ful sheene, On which ther was first writen a crowned A, And after Amor vincit omnia". Ironic that next to her nun beads.