政治解读乔叟《坎特伯雷故事集》之《女修道士的故事》

A political reading of "The Prioress's Tale" in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

从政治的角度解读乔叟《坎特伯雷故事集》之《女修道士的故事》,通过一个信仰基督教的无辜学童被犹太 人谋杀的悲惨遭遇,着重展现基督教和犹太教由于代表不同的宗教和阶级而产生尖锐的矛盾冲突,进一步分析女 修道士作为不可信的叙述者对故事的客观性带来的影响。

This essay is trying to have a political reading of 'The Prioress's Tale in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. In analyzing the tragic death of an innocent Christian boy murdered by the Judaist, the essay bluntly presents the sharp conflict between two hostile religious groups, the Christianity and the Judaism, and their struggle for power and truth based on different interpretations of the same world. Furthermore, the prioress is proved to be an unreliable narrator because her religious role as a Christian has a definite influence on her telling the tale objectively.