Pride Versus Love
All Things Are Subject to Love:
Pride Versus Love
In the description of the Prioress found in the prologue of The Canterbury
Tales, Chaucer depicts this woman as one who would appear to on-lookers as
being mannerly, becoming, and pleasant. The phrase where Chaucer wrote "She
was a great delight, and always tried, To imitate court ways, and had her
pride" would indicate that not only did the Prioress place a great deal of
importance …
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…prideful as well. At closer inspection, however, the Prioress is
given deeper qualities through her compassion for lowly creatures. It is
possible that through this compassion and feeling that she lives her life
according to the inscription "All things are subject to love." Still, it is
unclear to determine exactly whether or not the compassion she shows is out
of pride to "show out for others" or if it indeed is inspired solely by
love.
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