It starts of by describing this jolly apprentice named Perkin Reveller. He is a man who likes to dance, have a good time and gamble. He stays out late at nights and has a good time and goes to work the next morning with no consequesnces. His boss finally decides to let him go because he is scared Perkin Reveller will influence the other workers to do bad things. Reveller is let go and is left to a life of what he did before but now he has no money and had to marry a women who did mischievous things to earn her money.
Indirect characterization of Perkin Reveller
1. "He gathered many fellows of his sort to dance and sing make all kinds of sport." This hints that the character is social and likes to have a good time and hang out with others like himself. He is social but in a secluded way because he likes to hang out with people who are like him.
2. " Loving the tavern better than the shop." This hints that Reveller likes his leisure time over his work an doesn't enjoy his work. He would rather be doing something else than working and so he doesn't value the job he has.
3. " For in the whole town was no apprentice who better knew the way to throw the dice than Perkin; and therefore he was right free." Perkin is someone who is known in the community and he is good at his hobby. He has learned the skill of gambling and this is not something you want to be know for professionally which ultimately led to his dismissal. He gets money for his hobby and has been doing it for a while to be know throughout the town as the best gambler.
4. " For often times he found the till was bare." Perkin was a thief and he wasn't a good man. He had an addiction that he was willing to steal form his work to fixate it. He had to self discipline.
5. " And had a wife that kept, for countenance, a shop, and whored to gain her sustenance." He didn't love his wife, he only had her for her looks. He was a judgmental person who only cared about the fun of things and not the consequences. He married someone who was just as dirty as him and its ironic because he married someones else who was having a good time and doing her job.
Purpose
Comment on culture how we scold those who are having a good time as if work and leisure are too differnt things and you can;t meld the two. Ironic becasue wife is a prostitute (I think) so her side work is having fun while aslo making money so its ironic that something as low as that is looked at as accepted and someone with a respecabtle apprenticeship isn't.
It also shows how far oblivion and forgiveness can go in a professional relationship and how reputation can be the death of someone "But at last his mater did take thought." :For certainty a reveling bond-boy who loves dice, wine, dancing, and girls of joy his master in his shop shall fee the effect." The things you do don;t only affect you they affect everyone you are involved with.
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