ENGL 2100Y Chapter Notes - Chapter N/A: Geoffrey Chaucer, Narration, Pronunciation Of English ⟨A⟩
23 Feb 2016
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26 social commentary of the fourteenth century. Geoffrey chaucer, general prologue to the canterbury tales; background reading: in. Context: the crises of the fourteenth century. see also the course materials site for a. Like trying to figure out a child"s writing: in the general prologue, we have record of the pilgrimage as seen by geoffrey. Chaucer the pilgrim. he is the observer the i through whose eyes we see the other pilgrims. He does not mention a lot about himself and hardly ever mentions the word i . He is an extremely descriptive character as he uses a lot of comparisons. He focuses a lot on the way his fellow travellers dress and how they present themselves. This fictional alter-ego allows a personal opinion to be formed about the other instead of a general opinion of an omniscient narrator. So, what"s he up to?) the kind of tale that chaucer"s audience would expect from this character.
