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)
Narrator: self deprecating, apologizes because they categorizes the characters, one person is representative of that class
💛Relationships between social roles 💛
almost American
class against class
Framing of Decameron is the narrator (lens which we see everybody else)
Narrator: Compassionate, bemused, ironic, questioning, easily impressed, observant
Each person tells each story differently
Canabury tales: catalog of tales theme rivalry, competition
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