The Satire that Chaucer brings in his Stories
( The three major points in Chaucer’s story Canterbury Tales)
Wow, that just blew my mind, the three stories in Canterbury Tales explains three major views on society before they were even made. Chaucer had written this story expressing his opinion in the life that he lived in london. He wrote this story knowing that there would have been some confrontation in his society. Chaucer also uses satire in his stories, you know it’s referred to as sarcasm. He tries to show people, that all the stuff he says that is supposed to be “serious” isn’t really. Chaucer has a different view on society, and as a man from his time period it’s “forbidden”. He thinks that people, deserve to be told the truth by others, and played for money, or sex. There are …show more content…
He didn’t like how the church acted towards the people, they would tell them to do one thing, and the Friar would do the other. Chaucer hated the hypocrisy in the church, and in all honesty who doesn’t. The Friar in the story was a greedy man who only wanted two things out of life, money and to do “homework”. Chaucer wanted to say what everyone else wouldn’t he wanted to put the word out there, without actually saying it. In the story Chaucer had his opinions about the church, and was ready for people to read them . The church was not good like it should have been there were too much bargaining going around. They would take money from people, and tell them that God had forgiven their sins. On line 27 it is said that “some to give pleasure by their flattery and gain promotion through hypocrisy”. In most cases there were many bad people in that time period, but the worst of the people were all the one’s that the people thought were great. Obviously, people should have had better judgement on their priests, but in their defense they didn’t know the
( The three major points in Chaucer’s story Canterbury Tales)
Wow, that just blew my mind, the three stories in Canterbury Tales explains three major views on society before they were even made. Chaucer had written this story expressing his opinion in the life that he lived in london. He wrote this story knowing that there would have been some confrontation in his society. Chaucer also uses satire in his stories, you know it’s referred to as sarcasm. He tries to show people, that all the stuff he says that is supposed to be “serious” isn’t really. Chaucer has a different view on society, and as a man from his time period it’s “forbidden”. He thinks that people, deserve to be told the truth by others, and played for money, or sex. There are …show more content…
He didn’t like how the church acted towards the people, they would tell them to do one thing, and the Friar would do the other. Chaucer hated the hypocrisy in the church, and in all honesty who doesn’t. The Friar in the story was a greedy man who only wanted two things out of life, money and to do “homework”. Chaucer wanted to say what everyone else wouldn’t he wanted to put the word out there, without actually saying it. In the story Chaucer had his opinions about the church, and was ready for people to read them . The church was not good like it should have been there were too much bargaining going around. They would take money from people, and tell them that God had forgiven their sins. On line 27 it is said that “some to give pleasure by their flattery and gain promotion through hypocrisy”. In most cases there were many bad people in that time period, but the worst of the people were all the one’s that the people thought were great. Obviously, people should have had better judgement on their priests, but in their defense they didn’t know the