Clerk Study Questions
Thinksheet question: Pls answer question 4
1. Why does Walter test Griselda? See esp. lines 449-462;616-624;785-791.
2. How does Griselda react to what she
believes to be the murder of her children? See esp. lines 554-560; 680-686. How does she react to Walter’s
ostensible divorce of her? 871-896
3. What is the Clerk’s view of women’s
patience? See lines 935-939.
According to his envoy, how should
women behave?
4. Is this story about women and obedience
or about human obedience to God? See lines 1142-1148 and provide a concise argument to support your view.
5. How are Walter’s people described in
the text? See lines 127-129; 995-1001
6. How does this story relate to other
tales we have read, particularly the Wife
of Bath’s Tale?
How would you compare the views of
marriage in the two tales?
7. Look at lines 21-38 of the Clerk’s
Prologue? What types of views are
presented here? How is the author
viewed? How does this compare to
the Man of Law’s mention of Chaucer?