. many a preacher censure pilgrimages as the occasion for pleasure and licence and unseemly behavior" (Hodgson 2000)
. chastity, faithfulness, truth, righteousness, and spiritual preparedness," and by omitting these "ecclesiastical girdles, belts, or cords" Chaucer suggests there are lax spiritual values represented (Besserman 2014); b) Chaucer "struggled to write under accepted [Catholic] guidelines of the day, while his creative self was attempting to emerge" (Hubbard-Brown 2009)
chastity, faithfulness, truth, righteousness, and spiritual preparedness," and by omitting these "ecclesiastical girdles, belts, or cords" Chaucer suggests there are lax spiritual values represented (Besserman 2014); b) Chaucer "struggled to write under accepted [Catholic] guidelines of the day, while his creative self was attempting to emerge" (Hubbard-Brown 2009). Hence, breaking away from total adherence to Church values, he panned The Prioress (nun), saying that while she was "right pleasant, amiable," she was also "at pains to counterfeit the look of courtliness" -- in other words, she was fake (Nicolson 2015); and c) The Friar was a "
. electrifying scenes of sensuousness" (Sparkes 2007); b) because of his talented descriptions, he mesmerizes the pilgrims; he alludes to young women dancing "
The Miller's Prologue and Tale: Chaucer created a character in Absolon, the squeamish parish clerk, who has a feminine side but is not easily categorized. That is the main point of Absolon: he is feminine and he has no experience in matters of romance; he wears children's clothes and yet he is an adult; he approaches Alisoun with love and gifts and his kiss (she sticks her read end out the window for him to kiss) with Alisoun could be "homophobic or misogynist" (Walker 2002)
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