Doctor


 * Raven Temple And Alain Terazon**
 * Doctor**

‍Part One: Research Questions
1. What specific occupation does your character practice? The Doctors occupation was to treat and heal the sick with medicine and surgery.

2. What does the need for this occupation tell us about the time period? Sickness and illness were common. There was always a need for a doctor to take care of people.

3. What was his or her social standing? his social standing was high because he was educated and the only professional in his area of expertice.

4. What might your character’s day to day life be like? He would read and tend to the ill or hurt, and study other forms of medicine and tonics.

5. What details about this character does Chaucer not include? Where he lives? Is he the only one in his village? Does he serve anyone like royalty?

6. What modern day occupation might correspond to your medieval character and why? He's a doctor and they are still around and still much needed.


 * Part Two: Text Examination **

1. Paraphrase each line of the prologue describing your character. (1-4) No one was as educated an medicine and surgery. (5-9) He cured his patients with magic and the stars. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(10-13) He was prepared to take care of people with his medicine and he used them to heal a man. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(14-21) He was as good as ancient philosphers. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(22-27) He was not religious, but had a scientific mind. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(28-31) He loved gold more than anything.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. Which lines in the prologue best describe your character’s physical appearance? "Blood red Garments,slashed with blue, and lined with taffeta" <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. Which lines describe his/her personality? The last lines (28-31):
 * 28 || And yet he was right chary of expense; ||
 * 29 || He kept the gold he gained from pestilence. ||
 * 30 || For gold in physic is a fine cordial, ||
 * 31 || And therefore loved he gold exceeding all. ||

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. Which specific words add to your understanding of the character’s personality? <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Loved he gold.."


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Part Three: Analysis **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. What is Chaucer’s opinion toward this character?
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He feels that the character is very wise and good at what he does. He shows the character's intellect through his medicine and forms of healing. Also he shows the character's greed and love for money above all else.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. What specific lines or words tell you this?
<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lines 1 through 21 speak of the Doctor's medicine and his ways to take care of his patients. Also he speaks of him being as good as great philosophers in the past. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lines 28 through 31 explain his greed and how he loves gold more than anything in the world.

**Part Four: Visual Representation**
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