The Prioress by Chaucer

The image of a nun should be represented by love, humility and peace because they are the face of the church and they represent God’s love on the earth. Chaucer describes the Prioress as “Who was very simple and modest in her smiling;”(The General Prologue, 119).However he also talks how this Prioress was not the perfect nun in a convent, one example of this is in the Mini-lecture on The Prioress, it states “She is elegant and wears jewelry. Her rosary has a brooch on it made of gold with the worded motto in Latin that reads: Amor Vincit Omnia, love conquers all, which can be understood as the love of God” (lines 8-10). The way this Prioress behaved, was different from the other nuns, she was a person who liked to have a sophisticated life; she was so elegant specially the way she used to eat. She had some small hounds and her behavior was not the most appropriate for a nun. In my previous post Wife of Bath I talked about Allison who as the Prioress was a sophisticated woman, she liked to have elegant dresses and she also was a woman with good manners.