The Portrait of Medieval Social Classes in the Canterbury Tales
The General Prologue fulfils two functions: it tells the story of how the tales came to be told, and it introduces the tellers. There are about thirty pilgrims travelling to Canterbury to pray to the ...
Tones, Moods, and Irony in the Canterbury Tales
Forms of speech and intonation are extremely important to capture the attention of the audience, whether it is in writing or spoken aloud. In literature, the author uses some literary devices to entic...