Category: Geoffrey Chaucer

According to Chaucer, the question it is better to be rather than to seem, is answered simply. To be is who you really are behind what is shown, while to seem is how you want to seem despite who you really are. In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer depicts the character’s worthiness through their features and…

Literatures ability to combine intense analysis alongside escapist humor is often a solid indicator of timeless literature; this principle holds true even for a poem written in the fourteenth century. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer provides a thought-provoking satire on Medieval life planted within a cast of lively and often laughable characters, all while…

While all women in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales share the characteristic of being far more independent and verbal than what was to be considered the norm in the Medieval Ages, The Wife of Bath is set far apart both her fellow pilgrims as well as the women of Chaucers time with her distinctly matriarchal and…

The role of women in the 14th century was quite different then they are today. In Chaucers Canterbury tales he has made several scenarios in his stories on how women were viewed at that time period. In his stories it is clear that he was determined to show that women were not weak. But that…

In Geoffry Chaucers literary piece, The Canterbury Tales, various details the various characteristics and opinions of characters as they make a pilgrimage to Canterbury one spring. Chaucer gives each character the task to recite their own tale which the audience may learn from various morals that are depicted. One particularly interesting character that Chaucer calls…

Geoffrey Chaucer the outstanding English poet before Shakespeare and the first finder of our language. His The Canterbury Tales ranks as one of the greatest poetic works in English. He also contributed importantly in the second half of the 14th century to the management of public affairs as courtier, diplomat, and civil servant. In that…

Chaucer is referred not only as father of English poetry but also as father of English language and literature. Even today English literature is incomplete without reading him. Every student when get admission in English literature he has to read poetry from the very beginning. For this, he reads Chaucers poetry in detail especially his…

Introduction The Canterbury Tales, a cornerstone of English literature, penned by Geoffrey Chaucer in the late 14th century, offers a vivid portrayal of medieval society. Through a collection of 24 stories, Chaucer ingeniously weaves a tapestry of characters, each representing a different stratum of the feudal society of his time. Set against the backdrop of…

Many of the criticisms of Chaucers Legends of Good Women stem from his style of writing  he presents himself as a reader and wonders if he should trust the authority of the text over his own experience. In the Prologue, The God of Love is presented as a literary critic who judges Chaucers previous…