Nun's Priest Tale Analysis

The Nun’s Priest Tale is a mock-heroic because the tale tells a conventional topics in the style of an epic. One example of this occurs at the beginning at the first introduces the scenery of the tale. The tale takes place in a small cottage where a widowed woman lives with her daughters and with a few possessions. The grandiloquent style of writing used by the priest in this tale disagrees with the simple setting where the tale occurs. The tale takes place in a yard, instead of a fancier place where an epic would usually be set in. The priest uses a trivial animal such as a chicken instead of an expected character such a s courageous knight. The chicken, possesses characteristics that a hero of an epic would have. The priest also ridicules

romance in epic poetry when he introduces the readers. He mocks the ideal concept of romance between a man and a woman with Chanticleer and his seven lovers. Chanticleer gets introduced as a master of seven hens all there to do his pleasure. The priest lets the listener know that the seven hens were his sisters. This depiction of love is a clear mocking the concept of love. The priest banners medieval romance when he talks about Chanticleer’s copulation with Pertelote. In a normal epic tale, the writer is not usually as descriptive. However, the priest, in his mock-heroic is very descriptive of the love scene. The priest tells of how Chanticleer trod her Pertelote twenty times prime of day .The priests graphic description of the love scene also serves as a mockery to an epic tale. The Nun’s Priest Tale lies, but the tale is not as simple as you would imagine. The tale is a brilliant idea of a mock-heroic. The tale tells some elements of epic tale and the elements of its characters by using simple trivial subjects. The priest uses mundane characters and spoofs the attributes of characters from medieval tales. By doing this the priest not only tells a great but simple tale that ridicules noble but quixotic tales.