Satire In Chaucer's Satire

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Why Do You Have To Be So Sarcastic?!

(Chaucer 's Use Of Satire Chaucer 's Tales)

Will you quit being so sarcastic? I know you are not meaning what you’re saying! Satire or sarcasm is an everyday thing that either people can or can’t understand, it’s when someone says something, but is meaning the opposite of what is being said. There is no specific date in time that sarcasm was invented or recorded because it’s obvious that everyone does it. There has never been a time in history that someone hasn’t been sarcastic, course the most sarcastic person or poet has to be Chaucer. He has to have the most sarcasm, especially in his tales where he becomes very sarcastic to the church, gender roles, and nobility. He was very sarcastic towards
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What is the meaning of hypocritical? Well the correct word is hypocrisy and hypocrisy is the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one 's own behavior does not conform. And the church, back in Chaucer 's day, was apparently was very hypocritical and Chaucer did not like it at all, course that was a huge no, no back then, you weren’t allowed or supposed to go against the church it was against everything. In his General Prologue Tale, he definitely attacks the church, but has someone else say it or show hypocrisy, and the lucky fellow is The Friar. The Friar is a very hypocritical man, in church you’re not suppose to have sex, have money or get married, he goes against all of them, he has money, has sex with every young, gorgeous money he sees, gets them pregnant and then marries them off to young men. In old times the Friars were suppose to give up everything, especially money and just live on the church, and there is no marring, fathering or in any case sex with anyone. They are suppose to be loyal with the church and God, but the character Friar wasn’t like that at all he had money, kids and married his pregnant girls off to unmarried young men. There was also another man, the Pardoner, that was mocking the church, in a very serious matter, by saying that praying is a game, and the people that go to church are yokels. Ouch, big ouchy on the …show more content…
It all started with how Arostartal made a pyramid with god on top, then men and lastly women, this discrimination also started back with the bible with how Eve gave Adam from the apple that they weren’t suppose to eat from, because she wasn’t “smart”. But why is that? Well because men think they are better than women in every way and wanted to prove it even in the bible, and ever since forever women were always treated way less like property. Chaucer, he didn’t like the way that the system was set up, not one bit, especially with the fact that every man had a stick that was at least thumb width to keep the woman in place. To make sure that people knew that he didn’t like that he decided to write another tale about the equality with men and women in The Wife of Bath’s Tale. It doesn’t go into great detail because of how extreme the tales are, but in the tale a woman named Bath is telling a story about a knight who raped a woman, and was caught, but was given a year to find the answer on what women want most. On the last day though a old woman was out and saw the knight and gave him the answer in exchange he married her and he did and he didn’t die, but he was married to an ugly old woman. But this tale isn’t what I’m getting at it’s the beginning, the Prologue where Baths tells the story and she acts like one of the guys, or starts talking them down, she tells

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