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The Canterbury Tales: Decameron, Dante e Virgilio - Coggle Diagram
The Canterbury Tales: Decameron, Dante e Virgilio
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who are the characters?:
the main difference between The Decameron and The Canterbury Tales in the characters three estates of medieval society in England
the nobles, the clergy, the common people, for example the Miller, the Cook, the Physician
Chaucer himself, at the end of the Tales, he asks the readers indulgence
Chaucer put real people into the pilgrimage: the Cook was based on a famous contemporary cook, Also, real places are mentiond, for example Deptford and Greenwich
Chaucer's pilgrims are both individuals and stereotypes of this combination of allegory and realism is exactly the strenght of the Canterbury Tales
Great contemporary historical events such as the Black Death and the Peasant's Revolt are mentioned only once in the poem, this too was quite typical of the Middle Ages
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