The representatives of the higher strata of English society are also not without human flaws: for example, the friar and the bailiff of the church court try to ridicule each other with obscene stories. Another prime example is also Pardoner who sells fake relics. However, it is necessary to pay tribute to the author — all the heroes of the work are really extremely different and contrasting. Each tells his story in his own language and about what is really important to them: the knight — about adventures, the priest — about repentance, the seller of indulgences — about greed.
The lower strata of society talk about gossip, about the personal lives of other more famous people, sometimes going so far that their story is interrupted Chaucer, Chaucer presents humor in a gentle way: he puts direct irony in the speech of very few characters. Most often, it sounds from the lips of Harry Bailey, the owner of the hotel. Not only does the author ridicule some of the qualities of his characters, but the characters themselves tell their stories with irony and satire.
The story of Sir Topas is a parody of chivalric romances, but in the story itself, the foreground is not brave knights, but elves and giants Cooper, The prologue, story and epilogue of the monastery chaplain are written in the style of a fable and a heroic poem Olson, If the knight tells about deadly battles with sword and spear, then the miller describes the battle as a comedy, noting all human shortcomings.
The representatives of the lower classes are filled with much more irony, since most of their stories are inspired by rumors, in which they, without fear of harming their reputation, cross all possible boundaries. Many of them never give up drinking, which makes the various remarks in their stories more poignant. In contrast, the tact and education of the upper classes is reflected in their narrative language. However, despite the high syllable, some storytellers also do not skimp on obscene expressions, trying to annoy other characters with their stories.
Through the use of satire, he reveals this problem to an audience. The author sometimes deliberately exaggerates the shortcomings of religious leaders. The only moral religious figure, a pastor whose pure lifestyle is meant to exemplify the falsified lifestyle of other members of the clergy. It is worth noting that in addition to stories filled with satire, there are many stories in the work with more serious morality. A nun tells an anti-Semitic story about the murder of a martyr boy by Jews.
The author of The Canterbury Tales created a truly impressive work in which stories that are so different, even in literary genres, coexist. No wonder this work is included in the list of the most significant works of world literature. In this work, Chaucer exposes such vices of contemporary England as extortion, greed and idleness. Electrical Engineering. Computer Science. Medical Science. Writing Tutorials. Performing Arts. Visual Arts. Student Life. Vocational Training.
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Men may devyne and glosen, up and doun, But wel I woot, expres, without lye, God bad us for to wexe and multiplye, That gentil text kan I wel understonde. By God! And whan I saugh he wolde never fyne To reden on this cursed book al nyght, Al sodenly thre leves have I plyght Out of his book, right as he radde, and eke I with my fest so took hym on the cheke That in our fyr he fil bakward adoun.
Wommen desiren to have sovereynetee As wel as over hir housbond as hir love And for to been in maistrie hym above. For gentilesse nys but renomee Of thyne auncestres, for hire heigh bountee, Which is a strange thing to thy persone.
Thy gentilesse cometh fro God alone. Thanne comth our verray gentilesse of grace; It was no thing biquethe us with our place. And eek I praye Jhesu shorte hir lyves That noght wol be governed by hir wyves, And olde and angry nygardes of dispence, God sende hem soon verray pestilence! But shortly myn entente I wol devyse: I preche of no thing but for coveityse.
Therfore my theme is yet, and evere was, Radix malorum est Cupiditas. Listeth, lordes, in good entent, And I wol telle verrayment Of myrthe and of solas, Al of a knight was fair and gent In bataille and in tourneyment; His name was sire Thopas. Certes, he Jakke Straw and his meynee Ne made never shoutes half so shrille Whan that they wolden any Flemyng kille, As thilke day was maad upon the fox.
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