Chaucer and His Literary Background

Chaucer and His Literary Background

Chaucer and His Literary Background

Performance on this year’s Chaucer exam was, on the whole, excellent. The majority of students showed an admirable knowledge of both Chaucer’s own writings and the texts that informed these. The understanding of both was, for the most part, impressive – in some cases very impressive indeed. A sizeable number of candidates had ventured widely – sometimes very widely – in their reading, and were ...

The matriarch of Bath – Chaucer’s feminist insights

This paper critically analyzes Geoffrey Chaucer’s character Allison of his tale “The Wife of Bath” within the Canterbury Tales. The argument is made that Chaucer intentionally used this character to present his personal feminist ideals to his audience, thereby acting as an advocate for women under the guise of literary author. Evidence will be presented both from the text by analyzing her chara...

Another Look at the Hypocrisy of Chaucer’s Pardoner

For us, readers of Chaucer living in an age when appeal to religious passions and sentiments as a means for the realization of worldly objectives by some charlatans has grown significantly, reviewing the theme of religious hypocrisy treated in The Canterbury Tales can be useful in a way that it proves a helpful means for recognizing and dealing with the hypocrites. The Pardoner of the Tales is ...

Thomsen and myotonia congenita.

Virgin's role in the story is that of a mother who uses medicine to treat her child,28 her selection of a remedy recommended by the most prominent medical authorities could scarcely have been more appropriate. The cure would still have been considered a miracle, although based on medical principles. Moreover, by using this device, Chaucer would have appealed to the intellectual capacities of hi...