Category: Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer the outstanding English poet before Shakespeare and the first finder of our language. His The Canterbury Tales ranks as one of the greatest poetic works in English. He also contributed importantly in the second half of the 14th century to the management of public affairs as courtier, diplomat, and civil servant. In that…

Chaucer is referred not only as father of English poetry but also as father of English language and literature. Even today English literature is incomplete without reading him. Every student when get admission in English literature he has to read poetry from the very beginning. For this, he reads Chaucers poetry in detail especially his…

Many of the criticisms of Chaucers Legends of Good Women stem from his style of writing  he presents himself as a reader and wonders if he should trust the authority of the text over his own experience. In the Prologue, The God of Love is presented as a literary critic who judges Chaucers previous…

In the medieval era, Geoffrey Chaucer wrote a long narrative called The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer was born in 1343 into the family of a wealthy merchant. He didnt start writing The Canterbury Tales until around 1385, but didnt finish his planned 120 tales before he died in 1400. Chaucer is known as the father of…

According to Chaucer, the question it is better to be rather than to seem, is answered simply. To be is who you really are behind what is shown, while to seem is how you want to seem despite who you really are. In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer depicts the character’s worthiness through their features and…

Literatures ability to combine intense analysis alongside escapist humor is often a solid indicator of timeless literature; this principle holds true even for a poem written in the fourteenth century. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer provides a thought-provoking satire on Medieval life planted within a cast of lively and often laughable characters, all while…

While all women in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales share the characteristic of being far more independent and verbal than what was to be considered the norm in the Medieval Ages, The Wife of Bath is set far apart both her fellow pilgrims as well as the women of Chaucers time with her distinctly matriarchal and…

The role of women in the 14th century was quite different then they are today. In Chaucers Canterbury tales he has made several scenarios in his stories on how women were viewed at that time period. In his stories it is clear that he was determined to show that women were not weak. But that…

In Geoffry Chaucers literary piece, The Canterbury Tales, various details the various characteristics and opinions of characters as they make a pilgrimage to Canterbury one spring. Chaucer gives each character the task to recite their own tale which the audience may learn from various morals that are depicted. One particularly interesting character that Chaucer calls…

Geoffrey Chaucer has been regarded as the predecessor or the pioneer of English novel and drama, because all the novels or dramas that we find in English literature have brought out their ideas from Geoffrey Chaucers The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. All the techniques used in novel and drama today have their foundation drawn…