Chaucer - The Nun&#x27;s Priest&#x27;s Tale

thank god I finally see someone else doing the same text as me! Yep Im doing WJEC as well, you just need to know your critics inside out. The ones my teacher has given me sheets on are Derek Brewer, Helen Cooper, Winthrop Wetherbee, David Williams and a couple more.
Also buy the york notes for it that is quite helpful. I know how you feel, in all my other english essays i get As and Bs, and in Chaucer I've been getting Cs and Ds.
What critics have you got info on? xx

Reply 2

OP

critics??? hmm erm none, my teacher is **** hence i need the help!

where can you get the york notes i looked everywhere and cannot find it anywhere!

Reply 3

OP

would it be possible 4 you to photocopy these sheets and e-mail/msn them too me please???

Reply 4

I havent got a scanner but what I can do is type up all the critics quotes that I know?
Im a bit worried cos if your teacher hasnt given you any critics notes and your doing the same exam as me how is your class gonna pass?!! is your exam on the 15th June or something like that?
I got my York notes from the school library cos I couldnt find it anywhere either, how about looking on ebay or amazon.co.uk?
if its easier I will PM you the quotes xx

Reply 5

OP

you are a life saver thnx! you're worried hmm so are we!

ohh yes taht'd be gr8 thanx, i've looke don both amzon and e-bay, :frown:

yes its the 15th june.

what are you doing for elit 5 and elit 6?

i did cw on 1984/handmaids tale for elit 5

and doing Dr Faustus for elit 6

Reply 6

For elit5 I am doing Room with a view and Remains of the day, and for elit6 am doing Duchess of malfi.
I looked at a past paper for elit5 and they do really similar questions for all the books, dats the exam im least worried about!
i'll type up those quotes this evening and pm you them. I would email but for some reason I cant login to it at the moment! x

Reply 7

OP

jeni8686

For elit5 I am doing Room with a view and Remains of the day, and for elit6 am doing Duchess of malfi.
I looked at a past paper for elit5 and they do really similar questions for all the books, dats the exam im least worried about!
i'll type up those quotes this evening and pm you them. I would email but for some reason I cant login to it at the moment! x

ok thnx you're a star! 4eva grateful! :smile:

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Derek Brewer "the fable of Cock and Fox is in origin comical rather than satiric". "Chaucer adds marital, sexual, rhetorical, social, linguistic jokes".
"The main action of the story is postponed to the end because Chaucer embellishes the talk between cock and hen".
"Chaucer ponders yet again the problems of predestination and foreknowledge, but they arise out of the concern of a farmyard fowl who has dreamt about a fox."
Helen Cooper "The plain style of the opening enlarges to accommodate Chauntecleer's instinctive astronomical knowledge".
"Even [chauntecleer], morever, forgets the point in his exempla on the significance of dreams except in so far they enable him to defy her laxatives".
"Free will and predestination may be issues of colossal importance, but not when applied to a rooster."

I'll add some more in a few mins! Hope they help :smile:

x

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Winthrop Wetherbee "from the opening lines we see style straining to outgrow the limits of the humble story."
"his[nun's priest's] tone grows self-important, and his rhetoric begins to assume his own momentum".
"But Chauntecleer is as vulnerable as his narrator to the seductions of eloquence."
"As the story proceeds, the narrator's guileless pretentiousness ...no more clearly focused on Chauntecleer's situation than the tale of little King kenelm."
"the nun's priest's tact is flawless; it is never precisely his story or its hero that we take seriously."
"his genial invitation to locate the substance of his narrative "take the rfuit and let the chaf be still," can seem almost a taunt."

Also, can people put up past exam questions that they have done for this exam so i can do some extra practice before 15th June? Thanx a lot x

Reply 10

OP

they'll b a prolem there! its the 1st year its on the syllabus!

Reply 11

Are you jokin?! how am I meant to revise lol. The only way i can revise is by attempting past exam papers... crap!

Reply 12

OP

Well that's what our teacher said when we asked! Revise by looking at the back of the different editions of the text, there are questions in there!

Reply 13

Yeah hopefully my book has some in there, otherwise im pretty stuffed 4 revising 4 da exam i guess :frown:

Reply 14

OP

if it doesnt let me know and i'll pm u some that i ahve!

Reply 15

Anyone have any ideas for exam questions? im stuck :eek:

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OP

jeni8686

Anyone have any ideas for exam questions? im stuck :eek:

oppsy sorry im not at home at the mo, i'll type those ones up 4 u 2n8 n PM them! sorry i took so long! :eek:

Reply 17

Amzybaby24

oppsy sorry im not at home at the mo, i'll type those ones up 4 u 2n8 n PM them! sorry i took so long! :eek:

dont worry about it, I feel a bit rude asking you for them! just do them when you get any spare time, Im not in any rush :p:

Reply 18

Laurz

I'm doing Chaucer as well, but critics quotes are NOT required to get an A grade, all the examiners want to see for A04 is:
1. your opinion
2. possible different interpretations of parts of the text/specific lines
3. how an audience in Chaucer's period may have viewed a particular part differently to a modern audience due to differences in society/beliefs

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OP