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THE CANTERBURY TALES - Coggle Diagram
THE CANTERBURY TALES
STRUCTURE:
There is a General Prologue: Narrator presents the pilgrims
Each story has a prologue: pilgrims presents themselves
the Frame are : The PILGRIMAGE and CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL
Frame: TABARD INN
the CHARACTERS represent : 3 social classes
MILITARY: knight
CLERGY: friar, nun; prioress; monk; pardoner
LAITY: doctor, merchant, miller, carpenter
NO ARISTOCRACY/ NO POOR PEOPLE
NARRATIVE POEM IN VERSES
Is Not finished
THEMES are
LOVE MARRIAGE CORRUPTION HYPOCRISY CHIVALRY
It Represents the English Society
It was supposed to have 120 TALES
are told by 30 pilgrims
they met in London at the TABARD INN
they were going to Canterbury for a Pilgrimage to Thomas Becket Shrine
They tell 2 stories each one: 2 on the way to Canterbury; 2 on the way back to London
they decided that best story wins a prize
But Chaucer wrote only 24 tales
is written in Modern English
Inspired to DECAMERON by BOCCACCIO
10 Characters that tell 1 story each one for 10 days
Frame: VIlla in Florence during the plague
wrote in Vernacular
Critics of the clergy