Реферат: Role Of Women In Canterbury Tales Essay 2

Seemingly seeking comfort in her, he tells Pertelot about the dream

which involves a wild, rampant dog with beady eyes coming after

Chauntercleer. But instead of consoling her husband , she

challenges his manhood and says that no man hers should be scared of a

dream. This causes Chauntercleer to go off on a tangent about the

many, many times in history dreams have predicted the future and how

non-believers suffered the consciences of not taking the proper

precautions. After he done, however, he says that Pertelot is

probably right and goes off about his day not giving it another

thought. This causes the narrator to take an aside from the

story to tell us his own opinion on women but says that it is the

belief of many men and not his own in an attempt to perhaps cover

himself. In this he says:

Wommennes counseils been ful ofte colde;

Wommannes counseil broughte us first to wo,

And made Adam fro paradys to go,

Theras he was ful mery, and wel at ese.

But for I noot to whom it mighte displese

If I counseil of wommen wolde blame,

Passe over, for I seyde it in my game.

Rede auctours, wher they trete of swich matere,

And what they seyn of wommen ye may here.

Thise been the cokkes wordes, and nat myne;

I can noon harm of no womman divyne. (404)

Chauntecleer later is indeed attacked by a wolf and carried

away to the woods to his certain doom before slipping away, proving

the point that women are the downfall of men. If he had listened to

himself and his dreams instead of Pertelote, Chauntecleer would have

been more cautious of not of had the near-death encounter he did.