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  1. 1. Of View In the General Prologue, the narrator speaks in the first person, describing each of the pilgrims as they appeared to him. Though narrated by different pilgrims, each of the tales is told from an omniscient third-person point of view, providing the reader with the thoughts as well as actions of the characters. Tone The Canterbury Tales incorporates an impressive range of attitudes toward life and literature. The tales are by turns satirical, elevated, pious, earthy, bawdy. and comical. The reader should not accept the naïve narrator's point of view as
  2. 4. Geoffrey Chaucer
  3. 7. Action As he sets off on a pilgrimage to Canterbury, the narrator encounters a group of other pilgrims and joins them. That night, the Host of the tavern where the pilgrims are staying presents them with a storytelling challenge and appoints himself judge of the competition and leader of the company.
  4. 8. Of First Publication Sometime in the early fifteenth century Publisher Originally circulated in hand-copied manuscripts
  5. 10. (Place) The Tabard Inn; the road to Canterbury Protagonists Each individual tale has protagonists, but Chaucer's plan is to make none of his storytellers superior to others; it is an equal company. In the Knight's Tale, the protagonists are Palamon and Arcite; in the Miller's Tale, Nicholas and Alisoun; in the Wife of Bath's Tale, the errant knight and the loathsome hag, in the Nun's Priest's Tale, the rooster Chanticleer.
  6. 12. And Place Written Around 1386-1395, England
  7. 14. Action After twenty-three tales have been told, the Parson delivers a long sermon. Chaucer then makes a retraction, asking to be forgiven for his sins, including having written The Canterbury Tales.
  8. 15. (Time) The late fourteenth century, after 1381
  9. 17. The pervasiveness of courtly love, the importance of company, the corruption of the church
  10. 19. Romance, fabliaux
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  1. 2. The primary narrator is an anonymous, naïve member of the pilgrimage, who is not described. The other pilgrims narrate most of the tales.
  2. 3. Title The Canterbury Tales
  3. 5. Not applicable (collection of tales)
  4. 6. Narrative collection of poems, character portraits, parody; estates satire; romance; fabliau
  5. 9. Not applicable (collection of tales)
  6. 11. Past
  7. 13. Middle English
  8. 15. Springtime, clothing, physiognomy
  9. 16. Of Work Poetry (two tales are in prose: the Tale of Melibee and the Parson's Tale)
  10. 18. Conflict The struggles between characters, manifested in the links between tales, mostly involve clashes between social classes, differing tastes, and competing professions. There are also clashes between the sexes, and there is resistance to the Host's somewhat tyrannical leadership..