... Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales1, participants of a pilgrimage to Canterbury tell tales to entertain each other, revealing many aspects of medieval society. Through the double narration it can be seen that the narrator of the Prologue is Chaucer but this pilgrim Chaucer is not the author Chaucer. The pilgrim never describes his own career or social standing, but upon examination, he proves to be a corrupt individual of the upper class. The tales are not ... . Chaucer's poem has built up a character different from the real Chaucer, creating the pilgrim narrator whose profession is on the s...

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... it. Chaucer teaches us how it is possible to take life and the world and one's self very seriously while at the same time seeing the transiency of life, the triviality of the world, and the ballooning potential for roosterhood in almost any self." This statement is valid because in the The Canterbury Tales: The Prologue Chaucer takes all of his characters very seriously but not too seriously. ... David Blaine once said "If people paid attention to the amount of pain that really existed ... in their lives, I think many more people would be walking around insane. That's why we distract ou...

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