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THE CANTERBURY TALES - Coggle Diagram
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THE CANTERBURY TALES
STRUCTURE AND STYLE
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rhyming couplet made up of iambic pentameters (10-syllable lines alternating unstressed and stressed syllables)
A General Prologue (characters' description) and 24 tales, usually introduced by a prologue (theme) and followed by an epilogue, with a moralising base
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CHARACTERS
a portrait of English society, except for
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Presentation:
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clothes, attitude, way of thinking, tools, qualities
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pilgrims's names referred to their profession - a society in which work conditioned personality and world view
INDIVIDUALISATION: the character exists because has reactions and is in movement - dynamic vs. static medieval characters
SETTING
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Canterbury: destination - holy, the symbol of the celestial city
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PLOT
Spring, 30 people are going on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury, Kent. They meet at the Tabard Inn in London
men, women, monks, clergy people, artisans, merchants, Chaucer himself (the narrator) - feudal society, clergy and middle classes
Host's proposal: every pilgrim should tell 2 stories while going to Canterbury, and 2 coming back. Prize for the best story, penalty for anyone who gives up