杰弗雷乔叟Geoffrey Chaucer.ppt

The fact that there is no mention of her pitying or feeding the poor starving destitutes( 穷人）in her parish（教区） is ample（足够的） proof of her hypocrisy（伪善）. Chaucer emphasises her hypocrisy by not mentioning a single charitable deed of hers towards human beings, but by foregrounding（强调） sarcastically（嘲讽的） her excessive pity for rats which are actually pests（害虫） responsible for spreading the deadly plague（瘟疫） during the medieval age. She also wears red stockings, has gapped（有缝的）teeth (known in Chaucers time to indicate insatiable（贪得无厌的） sexual cravings（渴望）), red lips, and a little coral（珊瑚红的） locket（盒式项链坠） engraved （铭刻）Love conquers all. With her flirtatious（卖弄风情的，轻浮的） ways, her dress and her red lips which may or may not be helped along with berries（草莓） or lip stain（唇色）, her locket is most likely interpreted as a woman who doesnt completely adhere（遵从） to the vow（誓言） of chastity（贞操） that a nun should take. She has proven she is much more in to appearances than she should be--her flashy apparel（服装）, her French, her table manners, her knowledge of courtly（有礼貌的） behavior--so perhaps vanity（虚荣心） can also be added to the list of flaws that this nun has to overcome. She is not what you would expect a nun to be. As for her sympathies and tender feelings,She was so charitably solicitous She used to weep if she but saw a mouseCaught in a trap, if it were dead or bleeding. And she had little dogs she would be feedingWith roasted flesh, or milk, or fine white bread. Sorely she wept if one of them were deadOr someone took a stick and made it smart; She was all sentiment and tender heart.Her veil was gathered in seemly way, Her nose was elegant, her eyes glass-grey;Her mouth was very small ,but soft and red, And certainly she had a well-shaped head,Almost a span across the brows, I own; She was indeed by no means undergrown.Her cloak, I noticed, had a graceful charm. She wore a coral trinket on her arm,A se