The Presentation of Jocelin in Chapter One Essay -- Dean Jocelin Willi

The Presentation of Jocelin in Chapter OneDean Jocelin is a priest at St Marys Cathedral in Salisbury. He has avision that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on hiscathedral. During Chapter 1 we see many different qualities ofJocelin. The first answer for we meet of him is a visual picture of alaughing man this represents a joyful, exhilarant person. It showsthat this is the beginning of his vision and e reallything is takingplace before him. In the import sentence our view shifts and we seewhat he sees, the sunlight exploding through the glass, lifting up theimages of Abraham, Isaac and God. Our sense of seeing through his eyesis strengthened with additional spokes and wheel. from each one time thesunlight appears inside the cathedral Jocelin recreates his vision,and it reinforces the rightness of what he is doing. There is avarious repetition of Jocelin laughing chin up, this begins to sounda little insane, however chin up shows he is a very confident andproud man who thi nks he has all authority over everybody else. He alsothinks that St Marys Cathedral belongs to him, as he uses therepetition of my this would signify, that it is his territory. Myplace, my house, my people.The cathedral and the spire becomes an stalkion to Jocelin as hedescribes it as a living, living building. He describes thebuilding like a man lying on his back.The nave was his legs placed together, the transepts on either sidewere his arms outspread. The choir was his body and the maam Chapelwhere now the services would be held, was in his head. He describesthe spire as the crown and the majesty. The great one of allJocelin seems to be a very religious man because when he enters the... ...erson who Jocelin has great affection for is hisdaughter in God, Goody Pangall. Jocelin thinks that she is entirelywomen and she is the one topic of conversation that he discusses with by-line with Pangall. For example when Pangall is worried about thebuilders, the first question Jocelin as ks is, Is your good wife? Dothey work too near her? and Pangall replys no, Do they report her assome men will treat women in the street? Call after her? Speaklewdly?In conclusion to this essay, Jocelin has become obsess ional over thespire because he has forgotten that the vision is from God and when hethanks God, it shows he is grateful that god has given this vision tohim however it is not for Jocelin, it is for God. Jocelin also doesnot listen to anybody elses comments. All he cares about is himselfand how he looks rather than the cathedral.