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The Canterbury Tales - Coggle Diagram
The Canterbury Tales
Set in Spring
Talks about 30 people
Men, women, members of the clark, artigians, merchants, the narrator
Untill Canterbury for the shrine of Thomas Becket
They meet at the tabard inn
The host says
A prize fot the best story
Penality for who refuses
Each pilgrim tell same stories
Went in a pilgrimage
Structure and style
Long narrative poem
Chaucer use rhyming couples
The pilgrims were introdused
The stories
Narrated by different pilgrims
Main narrator chaucer
He says directly or ironically what he sees and what he thinks
Makes a connection berween real and unreal
The reader can decided if what he is reading is true or false
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Preceded by a prolouge
Introduces the theme of the story
Sometimes followed by an epilogue
Setting
The peligrimage provides a dynamic frame
No logic order
No esplicit hierarchy of valiors
In flux on the same road
Start point
Human and connected pleasures worldly
Canterbury is sacred
Symbol of heavenly city
Pilgrims' travel
Unifinished work
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Allegory on the cors of human life
Characters
Chaucer wanted to give a portrait of english society
Including rappresentatives of feudal society, members of the clerk and middle class
He dosen't show aristocracy and peasent
No aristocrat would have travelled with commoners
Peasents wouldn't have been able to pay journey
General prolouge doesn't follow social hierarchy of presentation of time
Mixes men and women to underline the new importance
The women were assuming importance in the middle class
New factor is individualisations
Character exists thank to reactions and movements