merhaba arkadaşlar ben erdem ankara üniversitesi amerikan kültürü ve edebiyatı bölümüne bu sene yerleştim.ingiliz edebiyatı anahatlar dersinde "The Canterbury Tales" konusundaki "Plowman" karakteriyle ilgili ayrıntılı bir araştırma yapmam gerekiyor.yardımcı olabilirseniz çok sevinirim hazır materyal ya da araştırma siteleri ne olursa.çok teşekkürler...

Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
Karen Powers Liebhaber
The Canterbury Tales
• Produced during his latest and most troubled period
• Write about people living
• Secured Chaucer’s literary reputation
• His great literary accomplishment
• Talks about this life
• Chaucer is a remarkable spectator writer
• Detachment
• Not complete
• Genres include
o Courtly romance
o Fabliau
o Saint’s biography
o Allegorical tale
o Beast fable
o Medieval sermon
• Subject matter includes
o Sex
o Greed
o Lust
o Jealousy
o Native cunning (tricksters)
o Credulousness of the stupid
o Marital problems
o Infidelity
o Corruption of the church
• Chaucer interested in
o individuals
o their foibles
o individual differences
o realism
o middle class people, merchant class, peasants who reflect the rise of the middle class in the 14th century
• Classes of the tales
o Upper class (Knight, Squire, church people);
o Learned professions (Physician, Man of Law);
o Landed gentry (Franklin);
o Medieval manor people (Miller, Reeve);
o Mercantile class (Shipman, Merchant);
o Guildsmen (Haberdasher, Dyer, etc.);
o Laborer (Plowman).
• Ideals of Private Life
o Five ideals, Chaucer treats seriously (Knight, Squire, Clerk, Parson, Plowman);
o Some he pokes fun at (Prioress, Monk, Wife of Bath);
o Some is quiet about; short portraits with now personal view coming through (Prioress's entourage);
o Some not very good; Chaucer is just a little negative (Shipman, Manciple);
o Hardened sinners, all of them religious officials (Friar, Pardoner, Summoner)
• Five specific methods of Characterization used in eh Prologue:
o Radix trait. Focus on a central characteristic (the Knight is worthy; the Yeoman is a forester);
o Touchstone line. A line that pinpoints the essence of the character (the Knight was a "true, a perfect gentle-knight"; the Squire was "as fresh as is the month of May");
o Glimpse of the spiritual, interior person through physical description; outward, physical blemishes suggest inner blemishes (the Cook has a running sore; the Wife of Bath has "gap teeth");
o Conscious use of hyperbole (extravagant, exaggeration), usually used to create bias (Man of Law knew all the cases in the book, the Friar the best beggar in his order);
o Disparate (incongruous) detail, particularly used on the "bad guys" (mention of the Cook's ulcer interrupts discussion of wonderful dishes he can prepare)
• Chaucer goes to some trouble to create realism in his presentation:
o Quarrels break out along the way, with several pilgrims telling stories meant to insult another (the Miller and the Reeve);
o When a story becomes tiresome, it is cut short (Chaucer's Tale of Sir Thomas, the Monk's tragedies);
o The pilgrims are overtaken along the way by a Canon (a clergyman of the cathedral) and his yeoman, who talks too freely about his master's affairs, causing the Canon to ride off in embarrassment.
• Each person to tell 2 stories on the way there and 2 on the way back

Harry Bailey
• Harry Bailey, innkeeper, went, too
• Runs a story telling contest
• Hearty
• Boisterous
• Frank
• good humored
• profane
• practical
• he draws out the shy pilgrims
• shows clumsy deference to those entitled to it
• smoothes over differences
• Generally keeps the company in good spirits.
Pardoner’s Tale
• He reveals himself to the people in his prologue,
• telling how and why he preaches,
• the tricks he plays.
• The Pardoner could see his own corruption but didn't do anything about it--the height of depravity.
• The tale is an incomplete sermon. A medieval sermon should contain six parts: This one contains only parts 1, 4, 5, and 6.
o Statement of theme or text;
o Protheme, introduced directly from the four gospels;
o Dilatation, expansion of the Biblical text;
o Exemplum, a story illustrating the point;
o Peroration, the application or eloquent haranguing;
o Benediction, the closing formula.
• The three rioters are symbolic.
o spiritually dead (like the Pardoner himself),
o seek out physical death.
• The old man is an ambiguous figure-
o perhaps a hermit;
o perhaps Death himself; or
o perhaps, as the rioters accuse him of being, Death's spy.
o More importantly, he is symbolic. Because he is spiritually live, death can't hurt him.
• It is an ironic tale dealing with two of the Seven Deadly Sins (Gluttony and Avarice), the two of which the Pardoner himself is most guilty.
o Pardoner denounces his own special weaknesses.
�� He says right things for wrong purposes,
�� blindly rushing toward his own doom, just as the rioters in his tale do

http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/plowint.htm

Burda da Plowman Writings isimli bir makale var. Belki bir fikir verir.

emeğin için teşekkürler dostum ama bunları ben de bulmuştum bu kakakter major olmadığı için bişey bulunmuyo teşekkürler:D