The+Clerk


 * Alesha Brown, Jessica Muncy, Cathy Donovan**
 * [|Clerk]:** a person who checked material costs, wages, and kept accounts.


 * [|The Clerk]** - The Clerk is a poor student of philosophy. Having spent his money on books and learning rather than on fine clothes, he is threadbare and wan. He speaks little, but when he does, his words are wise and full of moral virtue.

The **__ Clerk __**is on the lower end of the Church's hierarchy. However, he is fairly well respected among the pilgrimage

The __** clerk **__ is someone that dose things honerable for other people.Most people are small and they are pale because they work foe so long and hard that they end up getting sick and they are unnatural

The clerk would be known as an accountant

There were [|clerks] during this period. Someone had to ensure the books were correct and track the materials coming and going in the manor. They did much the same job as today, checked material costs, wages, and kept accounts usually for nobility. For proof of this look no further than Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale" from the Canterbury Tales.

things that were not included were that if he was young or old if he was married or had a family and his life style

There was a [|CLERK] from Oxford who studied philosophy. His horse was a lean as a rake, and so was he for that matter. He looked hollow and serious. He wore a threadbare cloak because he didn’t make any money. He didn’t have a job because he didn’t want one. He’d rather own twenty philosophy books than have nice clothes or nice things. He used all the money his friends gave him to buy books, and he prayed for the souls of his friends for helping him to pursue his passion. Not surprisingly, he spent most of his time reading. He was polite, but he spoke only when it was necessary and important to do so. His speeches were short and quick but very insightful and often about morality. He was both eager to learn and eager to teach.

A clerk from Oxford was with us also, Who’d turned to getting knowledge, long ago. As meagre was his horse as is a rake, Nor he himself too fat, I’ll undertake, But he looked hollow and went soberly. (5) Right threadbare was his overcoat, for he Had got him yet no churchly benefice, Nor was so worldly as to gain office. For he would rather have at his bed’s head Some twenty books, all bound in black and red, (10) Of Aristotle and his philosophy Than rich robes, fiddle, or gay psaltery. Yet, and for all he was philosopher, He had but little gold within his coffer; **He didn't carry much money around with him in his wallet.** But all that he might borrow from a friend (15) In the prologue, the lines, Nor he himself too fat, I’ll undertake, He looked thin, and he looks to me But he looked hollow and went soberly. (5) To be lean and serious. describe my charcter's physical appearance.
 * A clerk from Oxford was traviling with us also, **
 * Who turned to getting education, long ago. **
 * His horse was as skinny as a rake, **
 * He looked thin, and he looks to me **
 * To be lean and serious. **
 * His overcoat was warn out **
 * He has an old coat because he was poor ,hadnt done any work for the church **
 * He didn't have a job because he didnt want one **
 * He would rather spend his money on books **
 * He had twenty books bound in black and red leather **
 * About Aristotle and his Philosophy **
 * He would rather have books instead of spending his money on clothes, music and singing **
 * He was a really deep thinker he always thought about what's right and what's wrong **
 * He didn't like to carry money so he borrowed it from his friends. **

The following lines describe his personality:

Nor was so worldly as to gain office. For he would rather have at his bed’s head Some twenty books, all bound in black and red, (10) Of Aristotle and his philosophy
 * He didn't have a job because he didnt want one **
 * He would rather spend his money on books **
 * He had twenty books bound in black and red leather **
 * About Aristotle and his Philosophy **

Than rich robes, fiddle, or gay psaltery. Yet, and for all he was philosopher, He had but little gold within his coffer; **He didn't carry much money around with him in his wallet.** But all that he might borrow from a friend (15)
 * He would rather have books instead of spending his money on clothes, music and singing **
 * He was a really deep thinker he always thought about what's right and what's wrong **
 * He didn't like to carry money so he borrowed it from his friends. **

Given the context of the [|�1�] Clerk's tale, what lesson, if any, Chaucer intended remains an open guess. Certainly Griselda appears as the [|�3�] antithesis to the [|�5�] Wife of Bath. The intrusive narrator comments on the foolishness of the husband's test: > > > In the course of the narrative he seems to treat Griselda's story as an exemplum. He compares her to Job ( Men speak of Job, and mostly for his humility  - l.932), and reminds his audience of the well-known reputation of clerks for misogyny to emphasize the fact that Griselda's virtue is such as to disarm the most prejudiced (l. 936-8). In conclusion he remarks that he did not tell the story to encourage wives to imitate Griselda, but as a lesson to all and sundry to face adversity with fortitude (1142-1146). However the Clerk's Tale  is followed by an [|�18�] envoy ,  the tone of which is quite different. The clerk advises the ladies to disregard the heroine's passive acceptance of her husband's cruel whims, while exhorting them to indulge in the most outrageous forms of behaviour: Eer wag your tongues like a windmill, I you advise. The irony is more in keeping with the clerk's [|�23�] antifeminist [|�24�] ethos but contradicts his former conclusion. Finally, the host's wish that his wife might have heard this edifying tale is well within the scope of hackneyed antifeminist medieval discourse while suggesting that reality will be at odds with exempla