ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Nun’s Priest’s Tale, one of the 24 stories in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” is based on the medieval tale of Reynard the Fox, common to French, Flemish, and German literature.

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: -"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. Composed in the 1390s, it is a beast fable and mock epic based on an incident in the Reynard cycle.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -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. The narrator notes she derives great joy in having others acknowledge her upper-class mannerisms. She has a fine nose and a wide forehead.