Canterbury essay transmedia

Everyday people struggle with addictions. Whether it's drugs, sex, food, or gambling. Perkin the Reveller is the character in the Cook's Tale in the Canterbury novel written by Chaucer, and he also struggles with addiction in his life. Although the Cook's tale is left unfinished, we see the negative effects that the gambling and sex addiction has on Perkin. His addiction leads him to steal from his master which ultimately leads to his dismissal as an apprentice. This story is based on times of pilgrimage but the effects of sex and gambling addictions are still seen today.
 

This cartoon is an approach to see how a gambling addiction keeps pulling people in. An addiction is an addiction, once an individual gets hooked, it takes a lot to get them unhooked. Sometimes they start going over and beyond to get that "edge" or that "high" of their first moment. Sadly those do not understand that it will never be that way again. Gambling is targeted directly at individuals who are easily susceptible to addictions and majority of the time it gets its "target."

Perkin the Reveller didn't just suffer from a gambling addiction. He also had an addiction for sex and that was looked down strongly in that society. But using sex to get things have been used for centuries and is still used today. In the passage it mentions how one many had a wife who had a shop that she used to disguise her prostitution ring. Prostitution is quite common and preys on those who are easily addicted to sex, are unhappy in their relationships, or are just lonely.






Addictions lead people to do things the wouldn't normally do to achieve their "high" because that's all that matters to them, it's their whole world. Even when their left jobless or even homeless all they want to do is get that high again. Perkin the Reveller was just like humans are today. They lie and steal to achieve their own ends. Like his master said, "Better is a rotten apple kept out of the batch than one that rots the rest."