The Monk's Tale
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- The Monk's Tale
- Tavern
- Exposition
- Rising Action
- The Monk's Tale is the 21st story in the Canterbury Tales.
- Climax
- The Monk's wife is strong and expects more from her incompetent husband. She's demanding and wants her husband to stand up for her when she's disrespected. She thrives on belittling people to the smallest level.
- Falling Action
- The Host tells The Monk that it's his turn to tell a tale. The Monk then told 17 tragic tales. They were about the grandest people in the world that fell from dreadful grace.
- Resolution
- The Monk then starts to tell his first tale about Lucifer. He was a fallen angel who fell from Heaven to Hell. He became Satan through his own sins and misfortunes.
- The 15th story The Monk told was that of Alexander the Great. He was a conquistador who took anything he wanted by strength and the reputation he embodied. When his luck ran out, he was eventually poisoned by his own people.
- The 17th tale told by The Monk is called Croesus. He was a wealthy king of a place called Lydia. He was captured along with his riches until he eventually escaped. Croesus had a dream that he later described to his daughter. She concluded the dream meant he would be hung. He didn't believe this absurd dream until he was eventually hung.
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