In his story \"The Miller\'s Tale,\" Chaucer presents a side of the courtly love tradition never seen before. His characters are average middle-class workers rather than elite nobility. There is an interesting comparison between Miller\'s characters and those in two of Marie de France\'s lais that s...

In Chaucer's day women were thought of in lesser regard than men. Their positions in the community were less noble and often displeasing. TheCanterbury Tales, written by Chaucer, is about a pilgrimage to Canterbury. Along with the narrator (Chaucer), there are 29 other Canterbury pilgrims. Notsur...

Chaucer\'s The Canterbury Tales demonstrate many different attitudes toward and perceptions of marriage. Some of these ideas are very traditional, such as that discussed in the Franklin\'s Tale, and others are more liberal such as the marriages portrayed in the Miller\'s and the Wife of Bath\'s Tale...

1 Chaucer\'s The Canterbury Tales, demonstrate many different attitudes and perceptions towards marriage. Some of these ideas are very traditional, such as that illustrated in the Franklin\'s Tale. On the other hand, other tales present a liberal view, such as the marriages portrayed in the M...

The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer is a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Thomas a' Becket's tomb in Canterbury. Throughout the stories, women are often portrayed in two opposing ways. The women in these tales are either depicted as pristine and virginal, or ...

Sit and Spin:Chaucer's social commentary grows from so-called "intrusion"The relationship Geoffrey Chaucer establishes between "outsiders" and "insiders" in The Canterbury Tales provides the primary fuel for the poetry's social commentary. Both tales and moments within tales describing instances of...

The Inferno, the first part of Dante Alighieri's poem, The Divine Comedy, written roughly around 1307-1308 chronicles Dante's figurative journey to God. In this poem, Dante is led by the ghost of Virgil, the Roman poet, who has come to rescue him from he dark forest and to lead him through the real...