The excerpt from the text that best presents the dominant moral of the monk's tale is Thus Fortune with a light / Turn of her wheel brings men from joy to sorrow.
Explanation:
"The Monk's Tale" is a story from "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer. The stories that the Monk tells are full of strong moral and tragedy, as he uses the theme of fortune in all of them, more specifically the fortune of man and how they can not depend on it, as it is shown in the line "Thus Fortune with a light / Turn of her wheel brings men from joy to sorrow."
The correct answer is B) Fortune with a light/ Turn of her wheel brings men from joy to sorrow.
The excerpt from the text that best presents the dominant moral of "The Monk's Tale" is "Fortune with a light/ Turn of her wheel brings men from joy to sorrow."
The main morale after reading "The Monk's Tale" is we have to be careful to turn our dreams into reality because there might be consequences.
English author Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the story "The Monk's Tale,"
that is included in the book "The Canterbury Tales," written from 1387 to approximately 1400.
