Part one of term paper
The Friar clearly outwits the Summoner in Geoffrey Chaucer’s marvelous novel, The Canterbury Tales. In “The Friar’s Tale” the friar cleverly portrayed an image of the summoner whereas in “The Summoner’s Tale,” the summoner relied upon vulgarity to depict a portrait of the friar. In “The Friar’s Tale” the summoner was sha ...

Part two of term paper
... control of the summoner. However, the summoner does not challenge the statement in either tale, but warns the friar on the grounds of the friar’s immoral teachings (repent for stealing from poor in the name of the church.) The friar clearly depicts an image of the summoner, whereas the summoner, out of rage, resorts to vulgarity. The friar offers many analogies of the summoner, and he readily interchanges the occupations of a summoner and a thief: “And Judas kept a bag, and was a thief, just ...