Week 3

Question 1

‘Clerk’

Answer 1

academic
actual clerk in minor orders (church)
someone in regular or secular orders
learned and professional class in general

Question 2

Estates satire

Answer 2

medieval literary genre which gives an analysis of the voices and follies of certain social functions and professions
OF SOCIAL STEREOTYPES NOT INDIVIDUALS

Question 3

non-moral chaucer

Answer 3

he doesn’t make any definitive judgements about anyone, he only makes fun
(not immoral or moral, but neutral)

Question 4

Voices of Chaucer

Answer 4

Chaucer the Poet (reveals aspect C the pilgrim would not know)
Chaucer the Pilgrim (protagonist, naive and fallible)
the conventional estates satirist (explicit and implicit)
the public (other pilgrims)

Question 5

Two audiences

Answer 5

The pilgrims 
the reader(s)