ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -"The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” (Middle English: The Nonnes Preestes Tale of the Cok and Hen, Chauntecleer and Pertelote) is one of The Canterbury Tales by the Middle English poet Geoffrey Chaucer.

Detailed explanation-2: -"The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” is a story in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. The story is told by the Nun’s Priest after the Host interrupts the Monk because his tale is too depressing and boring. The Priest proceeds to tell a story, a fable, which uses animals in place of humans to tell a moral tale.

Detailed explanation-3: -Therefore, a theme discussed in ‘’The Nun’s Priest Tale” is the power of vanity to cloud one’s judgment and lead to folly.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Nun in The Canterbury Tales is one of the twenty-nine pilgrims making the journey to Canterbury. The narrator describes the Nun, whose real name is Madame Eglantine, as looking very humble and having excellent manners when eating. She speaks poor French and sings very well.

Detailed explanation-5: -The protagonist of this mock-heroic story is Chanticleer, a rooster with seven wives, foremost among them the hen Pertelote. Pertelote dismisses Chanticleer’s dream of being attacked and tells him to go about his business.