... his purposes. Yet what is Chaucer's purpose in the House of Fame, and how does the combat between the Virgilian and Ovidian tradition that creates the three-faced Aeneas of Book I fit into the unity of the poem? Critical views about Chaucer's purpose and the plausible theme of the House of Fame range from the exploration of limits of human understanding produced by the mind's confrontation with the sources of its knowledge, through simply a presentation ... betray Dido in order to secure his masculine identity and dominance, and, at the end, he is rewarded for his awakening regardless o...

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