The Characters Of Maggie In The Nun Priest's Tale

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Being raised up in a dreadful environment with abusive parents will surely cause your life to deviate from ones that were raised in a loving home. Maggie, whom’s life were portrayed with a sense of individuality were purposed to manufacture a sense of uniqueness, and yet her outlook on people and life are anything but unprecedented. The story that started with full potential were written away as she head towards a gloomy future full of persecution and abandonment. Maggie is no different than most people from centuries before and after her time due to her failure in separating personal desires from professional ones which is illustrated in her consciousness in appearances, her will of dependency, and her opportunistic outlook.
Maggie is very conscious about her outward appearances as she is always finding ways to improve on her own self-image and her environment.By spending her wages on this piece of decorative, Maggie is attempting to improve her appearances and tricking Pete into thinking that she is more glamorous than she really is. Maggie’s obsession with outer perfection is similar to Chanticleer’s in the Nun’s Priest’s Tale. Chanticleer is very conscious about his outer appearances and this obsession almost cost the rooster his life. In a similar way, the more time Maggie spends with Pete, the more she began to notice the poverty-stricken environment that she lived in and the more she began to hate it. This self-hatred led her to believe the misconceptions about Pete that would eventually turn into false trust.
In addition to the excessive concerns, Maggie is also easily deceived by appearances. Pete’s posturing led Maggie to believed that he is a sophisticated and prestigious gentleman when in fact, Pete is an uncultured ...

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...etended to be in love the the princess Anna so that they can get marry. Excluding all of the exaggerations, Hans is not different from Maggie. Both of these characters wanted an improved life, even if it requires them staying in a corrupt relationship.
Maggie’s failure to override the desire to escape the streets of Bowery and the lust for Pete had caused a rift between her family and herself. Her opportunistic outlook and consciousness in apparences increases the longer Maggie is in company with Pete and her dependency decreases over this course of time. Despite the difficult environment that Maggie grew up in, her outlook on people and life are very similar to the people of the past and future. With the life that was destined for possible greatness, Maggie took a wrong turn somewhere down the streets of Bowery and left the memorable legacy behind in Rum Alley.

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