Chaucer the Comedian
(An Analysis of Chaucer’s use of Satire to Obtain His Intended Audience) From generation to generation there have always been people who want to drastically change the way the human system has been set up. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 50’s and 60’s with civil rights; or Christ himself about 2000 years ago, they wanted to change the way we a human's looked at the world. Geoffrey Chaucer, commonly referred to as the “Father of English Literature” because he was the first poet to write in vernacular English instead of Anglo-Saxton or Latin. He is also referred to as iconoclastic for the ways he attacks, most of 1300 Europe and the way it has operated for hundreds of years. In his story The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer writes of twenty-five people (including himself) who take a pilgrimage or holy trip the city of Canterbury to see the famous church. The story is entirely made up by Chaucer, there was no pilgrimage, but it gave him someone to blame all of these …show more content…
This clash will happen within “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” where Chaucer writes an impressive story of a knight who makes a deal with an old lady to save his life in short. His life, saved by this old lady she asks to be married by this handsome, amazing and young knight.The knight sadly has to accept to have his life spared but is ashamed to be married to and old and frigid nobody of a wife. He is upset and she asks how can she put it right where he responds on line 244 of “The Wife of Bath's Tale” he responds, “Put Right? He cried. That can never be now!” He begins to fill his wife of this notion that he is an upper class person while she belongs with the nobodies. She begins to lash out at him saying if he was such a gentleman why was he not very kind or caring. Chaucer uses this story to show the nobility system and what it entails. This is how Chaucer once again, will use his stories to attack century old
(An Analysis of Chaucer’s use of Satire to Obtain His Intended Audience) From generation to generation there have always been people who want to drastically change the way the human system has been set up. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 50’s and 60’s with civil rights; or Christ himself about 2000 years ago, they wanted to change the way we a human's looked at the world. Geoffrey Chaucer, commonly referred to as the “Father of English Literature” because he was the first poet to write in vernacular English instead of Anglo-Saxton or Latin. He is also referred to as iconoclastic for the ways he attacks, most of 1300 Europe and the way it has operated for hundreds of years. In his story The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer writes of twenty-five people (including himself) who take a pilgrimage or holy trip the city of Canterbury to see the famous church. The story is entirely made up by Chaucer, there was no pilgrimage, but it gave him someone to blame all of these …show more content…
This clash will happen within “The Wife of Bath’s Tale,” where Chaucer writes an impressive story of a knight who makes a deal with an old lady to save his life in short. His life, saved by this old lady she asks to be married by this handsome, amazing and young knight.The knight sadly has to accept to have his life spared but is ashamed to be married to and old and frigid nobody of a wife. He is upset and she asks how can she put it right where he responds on line 244 of “The Wife of Bath's Tale” he responds, “Put Right? He cried. That can never be now!” He begins to fill his wife of this notion that he is an upper class person while she belongs with the nobodies. She begins to lash out at him saying if he was such a gentleman why was he not very kind or caring. Chaucer uses this story to show the nobility system and what it entails. This is how Chaucer once again, will use his stories to attack century old