Tuesday, October 14, 2014

CANTERBURY TALES (II) : WHAT A CHARACTER


Narrator: indirect characterization 
The knight: direct characterization 
Humor: irony in some tales such as the wife of bath 
The author has many different types of stories and uses both satire and comical reliefs. 

More notes: 


Overview: 

Have and have not, what kind of have do you fall Under? 
Chaucer born into a working family, also born into a middle class and needs to work for a living. 
Administrator for 2 kings... Veer cat  and landed in Italy and france 
When you read a French book in America and then French book in France it's different and you start to see the disconnect when languages were learned in a different country other than the native country. 
Overview: 
Have and have not, what kind of have do you fall Under? 
Chaucer born into a working family, also born into a middle class and needs to work for a living. 
Administrator for 2 kings... Veer cat  and landed in Italy and france 
When you read a French book in America and then French book in France it's different and you start to see the disconnect when languages were learned in a different country other than the native country. 
That's when Chaucer decided to write in English and his stories were based on boccaccio Cameron which were a collection of 10 stories, 10 nobles had the plague and met and shared their stories, each one of their tales was a tale within a tale. 
Chaucer is no one genre, he has different genres because of the topics, symbols, and language 
Romance: knights tale (emotions, relationships) 
Fabliau: millers tale (basic human needs, food, sex, money) 
Saints life:seconds nuns tale (stories of god though a holy person) 
Morale tale: (right and wrong) 
Sermon: parsons tale (issues) 
Prolog: 
Opposites/ contradictions 
Serve to define one each other 
Progression  
Heavenly and the early 
Theological and biological (sexual sensual) 
Winter to spring 
Supernatural to natural 
Sickness to health 
Death to life 
Ex: pilgrimage (embodies both spiritual ideal and contemporary practice like walking) 
Tone: gentle satire, no shocking recommendations, analysis of hierarchy 
Mythic (utopian) to human (frail) 

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