The topics to be EVALUATED are: - Chaucer's biography - The General Prologue - The following characters' Tales: The Knight's, the Miller's, the Wife of Bath's, and the Pardoner's. - Structure of the book. NAME: FABIO ROBERT YEAR: 2015 1. The writer Geoffry Chaucer (1342-1400), translator and poet, diplomat and administrator, scientific and realistic. In his biography, rebuilt by various documents, it can be appreciated the different difficulties he had to overcome, as the different social and political events in the England of his time that mark the beginning of a transition to modernity age: the fall of the feudal regime, peasants strikes, loss of power by the Church, the Black Death, the Hundred Years' War. The social position …show more content…
It is the most perfect composition in the Italian way; reveals a noble man, moved away from the joys and common sorrows of humanity, so it is very appropriate to be narrated by a perfect gentleman, which is what is described in the Prologue: a gentleman, highlighting the qualities of honour, courtesy and nobility of spirit; who has taken part in numerous battles - exactly-fifteen, has travelled throughout Europe and North Africa; defending the faith, observing feudal customs and participateing in numerous tournaments, which always he was victorious. In addition, He is simple and humble, and from his mouth never emerges an impertinence or wrong word. The story tells a love story with honour and tragedy in some way The Miller's: Considered as a parody of courtly love represented by a beautiful and handsome chaplain in his attempt to win his alleged lady. In this story of love and teasing, the first to be deceived is the husband, a rich old carpenter who innocently believed the lie of the student who stays in his house, that a second flood will happen. The purpose of that lie by the student and the young wife of the carpenter, are none other than those of being together one night forgetting the misgivings of her husband. This mess is more tangled by the chaplain devotion for the lady, a fact which eventually causes humiliation of the pretender to kiss, instead of the full lips of his beloved one, …show more content…
Many of the attributes of the wife come from French poem Le Roman de la Rose. For Bath Alison everything is great in excess: the number of marriages and travels, her passion for control and sex, etc. The prologue is largely over her, his love life and his right to tell a story about women by a woman with much experience in marriages. It is a confession but without a trace of self guilt or remorse traits. Instead, Alison tells his weaknesses with delight. Her strong and controversial personality along with feminist and anti-feminist idea is clear from his attitude and his words gave him great popularity, which exceeds that of any other character of this famous pilgrimage. She is bold, brash, vain, talkative and silences everyone; wanders before going on incessantly and wields the same ideas. She shows that she did well getting married five times and boasts of having harassed their husbands with reprimands, with his jealousy and suspicion. His story is preceded by a prologue, masterful satire against women and