A New Kind of Language
(A Critique of Chaucer’s Use of Satire in The Pardoner’s Tale and the Wife of Bath’s Tale) Becoming aware of the alternating types of language occurring in everyday speech can help inform and teach others about the wide range of communication. Some of these types of languages could be positive while others are more negative. A negative form of language type is satire, which is defined as the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. Chaucer masters the use of satire in his works of The Canterbury Tales. He uses this varying satire to directly attack his audience and enforce his point that he is making. Throughout The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer’s use of satire helps him reach his intended audiences. …show more content…
Hypocrisy is when someone teaches or preaches for the people to do one thing and then he turns around and does the exact opposite from what he taught. Chaucer directly attacks the church because he believe that the roots are the most corrupt parts of the church. He writes a story about a Pardoner who is supposed to be a good image for the church but is instead completely opposite from what he should be. When he is introduced in The General Prologue as well as in The Pardoners Prologue and Tale, Chaucer swirls some satire into his few lines of this character. “Then priest like in my pulpit, with a frown, I stand, and when the yokels have sat down, I preach, as you have heard me say before, and tell a hundred lying mockeries more.” (page 125, lines 9-12) The Pardoner is supposed to forgive peoples sins but instead is he just committing more sin each time he preaches to the
(A Critique of Chaucer’s Use of Satire in The Pardoner’s Tale and the Wife of Bath’s Tale) Becoming aware of the alternating types of language occurring in everyday speech can help inform and teach others about the wide range of communication. Some of these types of languages could be positive while others are more negative. A negative form of language type is satire, which is defined as the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues. Chaucer masters the use of satire in his works of The Canterbury Tales. He uses this varying satire to directly attack his audience and enforce his point that he is making. Throughout The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer’s use of satire helps him reach his intended audiences. …show more content…
Hypocrisy is when someone teaches or preaches for the people to do one thing and then he turns around and does the exact opposite from what he taught. Chaucer directly attacks the church because he believe that the roots are the most corrupt parts of the church. He writes a story about a Pardoner who is supposed to be a good image for the church but is instead completely opposite from what he should be. When he is introduced in The General Prologue as well as in The Pardoners Prologue and Tale, Chaucer swirls some satire into his few lines of this character. “Then priest like in my pulpit, with a frown, I stand, and when the yokels have sat down, I preach, as you have heard me say before, and tell a hundred lying mockeries more.” (page 125, lines 9-12) The Pardoner is supposed to forgive peoples sins but instead is he just committing more sin each time he preaches to the