Geoffrey Chaucer, The Author of the Canterbury Tales, is known as the Father of English Literature and is one of the greatest English Poets of the Middle Ages. Chaucer was a soldier, a diplomat, a civil servant, and a courtier, enabling him to experience different aspects of each social ranking, which he demonstrated through his poetry. The Canterbury Tales, his most famous work, is a collection of short stories within a frame story, making for an interesting and memorable narrative about 29 pilgrims
in places where no one else would look, and this includes texts from the 1300’s. Geoffrey Chaucer was a huge fan of sarcasm and satire, he joined the bandwagon of giving people what they wanted to read, and he did this using the sneak attack known as satire. Chaucer’s satire can be observed in man places throughout The Canterbury Tales, the General Prologue being the first. “The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales is an estates satire. In the Host’s portraits of the pilgrims, he sets out the
Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales he reveals an underlying flaw in society. Chaucer portrays the Pardoner as hypocritical in order to get his message across to readers. The Pardoner is shown to be the exact definition of a hypocrite by preaching to others to lead a spiritual life, while not living by those preaching's himself. In Canterbury Tales, Chaucer reveals hypocritical qualities in the Pardoner through vivid characterization, tone, and morality. In the Pardoner's prologue, Chaucer describes what
the Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer is known for being one of the greatest English poets of his time (Malvern). During Chaucer’s life, he went through many hardships. Some of the hardship Chaucer endured was being kidnapped by French enemies, dealing with the death of his wife, and surviving the Black Death (“Chaucer”). Chaucer hardship helped him become the author that he was (Malvern). “The Canterbury Tales is a group of legends narrated by fictional pilgrims on a pilgrimage” (“Chaucer”). Chaucer’s
1300’s. During the 1300’s, a man named Geoffrey Chaucer was born, and became an outstanding writer as well as poet. He created a satiric frame story, The Canterbury Tales, in which he disagrees with the thought of these people in possession of power, greed, and how to, potentially, gain this higher privilege of ruling. Chaucer displays the iconoclastic use of Horatian and Juvenalian satire in The Canterbury Tales by attacking church hypocrisy, patriarchy and class nobility. In The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer expresses his disillusionment with the Catholic Church, during the Medieval Era, through satire when he wrote, The Canterbury Tales. The Medieval Era was a time when the Catholic Church governed England and was extremely wealthy. Expensive Cathedrals and shrines to saints' relics were built at a time when the country was suffering from famine, scarce labor, disease and the Bubonic Plague, which was the cause of death to a third of Europe's population and contributed
In the general prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer’s, The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer reveals his dissatisfaction of the distribution of power and how that power was maintained in the Medieval England estate system, through the use of his physical description of each of the pilgrims and by the personality of specific members of each caste. To portray these characters and the flaws that they represent in actual medieval society, Chaucer heavily relies on the use of irony to describe many of the travelers in
society in which the author lived such as Voltaire’s’ Candide and Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Geoffrey Chaucer, famous for his The Canterbury Tales, and considered instrumental in the creation of English literature, is not as well known for social commentary in his writing. However, The Canterbury Tales do indeed possess insight and analysis of society, namely the role of the authority figures in the Church. Chaucer was critical of the abuses and misuses he saw in the authority within the Church. He demonstrated
Chaucer was a Harsh Dude (An analysis of Chaucer's use of satire and his attack on institutions in the Canterbury Tales) In the 1300’s, a man named Geoffrey Chaucer entered the scene of literature. He is known as the Father of English Literature and is the first poet to be buried in Westminster Abbey. A scholar states, “Many literary scholars consider Geoffrey Chaucer to be the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages,”(Chambers). Why is Chaucer so influential in English culture and Western literature
The Pardoner’s Greed The pardoner, in Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Pardoner’s Tale,” is a devious character. He is a man with a great knowledge of the Catholic Church and a great love of God. However, despite the fact that he is someone whom is looked at with respect at the time, the pardoner is nothing more than an imposter who makes his living by fooling people into thinking he forgives their sins, and in exchange for pardons, he takes their money. His sermon-like