THE CANTURBURY TALES

INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATION

• "In blood-red garments, slashed with bluish grey and lined with taffeta, he rode his way." (449-450)
• "He did not read the bible very much." (448)
• "The cause of every malady you'd got he knew, and whether dry, cold, moist, or hot;
• He knew thier seat, humor and condition. "(429-431)

DIRECT CHARACTERIZATION

• "No one alive could talk as well as he did on points of medicine and of surgery" (422-423)
• "He was a perfect practicing physician." (432)
• "Gold stimulates the heart, or so we're told. He therefore had a special love of gold." (453-454)

THE DOCTOR IS........

• Intelligent
• Materialistic, liking gold
• Knowledgable of diseases

DR. OZ