The Concept of Charity in the General Prologue
In the "General Prologue," Chaucer presents an array of characters from
the 1400's in order to paint portraits of human dishonesty and stupidity as well
as virtue. Out of these twenty-nine character portraits three of them are
especially interesting because they deal with charity. Charity during the
1400's, was a virtue of both religious and human traits. One character, the
Parson, exemplifies Chaucer's idea of charity, and two characters, Prioress, and
Friar, to satirize the idea of charity and show that they are using charity for
either devious reasons or out of convention or habit.
According to the definition from the Webster's dictionary, charity means
giving to the needy and helping the poor. In Chaucer's time, however, charity
meant much more. It included a love of G-d and doing the will of G-d as well as
the kind of person one is. Thus Charity had two parts, one human, the other
divine. Two parts that mixed in different portions depending on a person.
Charity was a human virtue that the Church encouraged. People believed that if
one does something good, he will be rewarded by G-d. Many people did meaningful,
charitable things out the goodness of their hearts, but others had done it for
other reasons. Those reasons included making money from people's suffering and
giving to charity because someone told them to do so, rather than from the
goodness of their hearts or to ease the suffering of others. Chaucer plays off
both of these parts of charity in his portraits to show how they can be combined
differently in different people and to distinguish "true" charity from "false"
charity.
Parson exemplifies Chaucer's idea of true charity. Even though Parson
does not have any money, he considers himself rich spiritually. Going around
the village, he teaches the poor and those who can't go to church about what G-d
is and how to be a religious person. He gives more than he receives. In fact,
he avoids preaching to the rich and well-to-do because he prefers going to the
humble and poor, who truly need his help and G-d. He doesn't run to London to
earn easy bread
life, and acting upon his responsibilities in order to follow with his heart, instead of with
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