Which word best describes the Nun from The Canterbury Tales, “The Prologue
I need the multiple choice you were given. The Prioress was fake, she only acted how she felt a woman of the court should act, she didn't really often care about most things she pretended to.
The nun was one of the company of the journey to Canterbury. She is also known as the prioress. She was profiled as a very beautiful woman by the narrator but also very worldly meaning that she had many desires that were material. This is somewhat ironic seeing as how a nun is supposed to live by a strict order that does not allow these sorts of desires of food and love and etiquette. Despite this the nun still desperately attempts to act courtly and through her dress and manners and by doing so is being a bad nun but still an appealing person in the eyes of the narrator.
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