Questions concerning the Clerk’s Tale:
May 9: Answer question 3. May 11:
Answer question 6.
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 give arguments for
your answer.
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
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?