Geoffrey Chaucer is the greatest writer of the period.
of Middle Century,he did not live as a commoner; and.
although he was accepted by the aristocracy,he must always.
have been conscious of the fact that society of which birth.
alone could make one a true member. From his birth to his .
death,Chaucer dealt continually with all sorts of people,the.
highest and the lowest,and his observant mind made the .
most of this ever-present opportunity.His wide range of.
reading give him plots and ideas,but his experience gave him.
models of character.
His Career.
In the last part of the14th century when Chaucer was learning from the great Italian writers like Petrarch and Boccaccio ,the influence of Renaissance was already felt .Chaucer dominated the works of his 15th century English followers and the so-called Scottish Chaucerians. For the Renaissance, he was the English Homer.Edmund Spenser paid tribute to him as his master;many of Shakespeare's plays show thorough assimilation of Chaucer's comic spirit. Today,Chaucer's reputation has been securely established as one of the best English poets for his wisdom.
His Articles' Feature.
In his work ,Chaucer explore the theme of the individual 's relation to the society in which he lives; he portrays clashes of characters' temperaments and their conflicts over material interest; he also show the comic and ironic effects obtainable from the class distinctions felt by the newly emerged bourgeois as in the case of the Wife of Bath who is depicted as the new bourgeois asserting her independence.Chaucer affirmed man's right to pursue earthly happiness and opposed asceticism;he praised man's energy, intellect, quick wit and love of life;he expose and satirized the social vices,including religious abuses.
In short Chaucer develop his characterization to a higher artistic level by presenting characters with both typical qualities and individual dispositions.
