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GEOFFREY CHAUCER'S PORTRAIT OF ENGLISH SOCIETY (TWENTY-FOUR TALES…
GEOFFREY CHAUCER'S PORTRAIT OF ENGLISH SOCIETY
LIFE :
THE CANTERBURY TALES (ca 1387-1400):
-it is a NARRATIVE POEM
-it contains a variety of NARRATIVE ELEMENTS
-it is in VERSE
-it has links with the MORAL VIEWS of the time
-it gives insight into INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERS as regards their lifestyle, theirpsycology and their experiences
it is as ESTATES SATIRE
STOCK CHARACTERS are presented form the THREE ORDERS and the RISING MIDDLE CLASS
THE STRUCTURE
TWENTY-FOUR TALES
usually preceded by a PROLOGUE wich introduces the theme of the tale
sometimes followed by an EPILOGUE
a GENERAL PROLOGUE where the pilgrims are introduced
THE STORY
THIRTY PEOPLE, incliding THE NARRATOR join a PILGRIMAGE to CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL to visite Thomas Becket shrine
every pilgrim SHOULD tell two stories on the WAY to CANTERBURY and two stories on the WAY BACK. the pilgrim who tells the best stories will WIN a FREE DINNER
varius tales: RELIGIOUS and HUMOROUS, MORAL and SATIRICAL
THE STYLE
it is written in RHYMING COUPLETS (AABB)
THE LANGUAGE
used a LITERARY LANGUAGE
schoolsChaucer using French, Anglo-Saxon and Latin
English as the LENGUAGE of GOVERNMENT
French as the LENGUAGE of EDUCATION in the local
-born about 1343 and died in 1400 he was the first poet to be BURIED in Westminster Abbey
-worcked as a CONTROLLER OF THE COSTUMS
-received an EXCELLENT EDUCATION
found employement in the house of John of Gaunt
-took part in important DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS
-the son of a WINE MERCHANT
-his SKILL and INVENTIVENESS, a CLEVER MIND and PRATICALO SKILLS helped him raise his social status