The French doctor Caius is in competition with the parson for the hand of a rich young lady. The host pretends to help the doctor, but really he is mocking him, using derogatory slang terms. He deceives the doctor into believing that they are words of high merit. The doctor uses the words, making himself an even bigger laughing stock. He is thankful for the host’s help and promises to send business to the inn, as way of reward. Throughout the discourse the host is incessantly calling the doctor a coward in different ways; “heart of elder”, “Castalion”, and “mock-water” (Riverside 37). When the host tells Caius that “He will clapper-claw thee tightly” (2.3.65) he is saying that the “Priest will thrash him soundly” (Riverside 37). His ridicule is an exploitation of the doctor’s nationality and his naiveté. The Host of the Garter Inn life lesson is the cruelty of
The French doctor Caius is in competition with the parson for the hand of a rich young lady. The host pretends to help the doctor, but really he is mocking him, using derogatory slang terms. He deceives the doctor into believing that they are words of high merit. The doctor uses the words, making himself an even bigger laughing stock. He is thankful for the host’s help and promises to send business to the inn, as way of reward. Throughout the discourse the host is incessantly calling the doctor a coward in different ways; “heart of elder”, “Castalion”, and “mock-water” (Riverside 37). When the host tells Caius that “He will clapper-claw thee tightly” (2.3.65) he is saying that the “Priest will thrash him soundly” (Riverside 37). His ridicule is an exploitation of the doctor’s nationality and his naiveté. The Host of the Garter Inn life lesson is the cruelty of