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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN "THE CANTERBURY TALES" AND "…
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN "THE CANTERBURY TALES" AND "DECAMERON"
THE CANTERBURY TALES
Chaucer includes representatives of all social classes including several members of the clergy
It's incomplete and for this reason the time of the story is indefinite
Each character speaks in a different way according to the social class
This work is social critic to the clergy, to the education and social institution
Written in verse
Chaucer is one of the protagonists of the story
homodiegetic narrator
The contemporary English society is reflected
DECAMERON
Storytellers all belong to the same upper class
it's complete
The chatacters speak all in the same way
Boccaccio is completely detached from the narrative
omniscient narrator
Written in prose
the contemporary Italian society is reflected
They are both FRAME NARRATIVES
several stories within the framework of a main story
