(Chaucer’s use of Satire to reach his intended audience) “The appreciation of Geoffrey Chaucer has suffered a good deal in the past from his reputation as the ‘Father of English poetry.’'' (Traversi) From this man’s great writing has come many different views and different understandings of the English language. What Chaucer does is very important, he uses satire. What does this word mean? It is a sort of Irony or trick where Chaucer will say one thing, but mean another. This is a way of telling the audience
as the general prologue of The Canterbury Tales, the narrator Geoffrey Chaucer, the father of English poetry, sets the scene in April and at the return of spring. The opening to the general prologue mentions both lust and noble love. It describes April as the time of year when everything is starting to change and bare fruit in fertility and abundance of life of a sexual desire. Another key point to the general prologue is that Chaucer falling into a group of pilgrims. In this excerpt, a pilgrimage
There was a writer named Geoffrey Chaucer, he is considered the father of English Literature. Chaucer's most famous work is The Canterbury Tales, a fictional collection of stories told by pilgrims traveling to the Shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. One of the most interesting stories is “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”, which contains many of the elements normally associated with fairy tales. One characteristic of most fairy tales is that they happen long ago. They use "Once upon a
Geoffrey Chaucer, regarded by many as the father of english literature, has inspired many modern writers to personify death in their work after the success of his collection of short stories entitled Canterbury Tales. Chaucer was an english poet during the fourteenth century who was known for his dramatic and often ostentatious characters found throughout his stories (Pollard). Perhaps one of the most recognized short stories from Canterbury Tales goes by the name of “The Pardoner’s Tale”. The story
The well pronounced “Canterbury Tales” written by author and philosopher Geoffrey Chaucer speaks of a peculiar character known as the Wife of Bath, expressing her complex portrait on how it was to be a women during the medieval age. Chaucer who sought to change the mentality of society toward women used the Wife of Bath who illustrated a dominant uphold in challenging what was believed by society, in a way that she indulges a new female figure within the community. Alison best known as the Wife