Topic > Literary Essay: The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

One of the most recognized attributes of Chaucer's fiction was his ability to create characters who embodied characteristics distant from fiction, making them very real and believable through writing. To verify this claim it is necessary to examine Chaucer's work. The most famous of these is the collection of short stories "The Canterbury Tales" (originally written in Middle English) which were Geoffrey Chaucer's last work and perhaps the best of the Middle Ages in England. Therefore, for literary reasons, three characters were taken for analysis to distinguish the level of transcendence recognized (if any) in their inner and outer lives. When we say that the characters created by Chaucer had characteristics distant from fiction, we are referring to aspects that made them real, in other words, made them like us, ordinary people who commit sins, have values ​​and virtues, have a job regular (or not) and have problems and don't always deal with them, or go away gracefully. In the prologue of The Canterbury Tales it was seen that hierarchical barriers were broken by joining representatives of various strata in a pilgrimage. For this reason, The Cook, The Squire and The Manciple were chosen. The first character is The Cook, whose description begins with rather everyday language, but never quite approaches this informality. The physical experience of the cook is represented by grotesque details; he suffered from a sore on his shin that everyone saw even when he cooked. He also had a reputation for being dirty. And although he had a decent repertoire of dishes and cooking techniques, he was not very reliable in his work, since the dirt and flies flying in his kitchen made many of his guests intoxicated with that... half of the paper.. .. ..iplomatic, king's official who collected and inventoried scrap metal) that Chaucer had led him to meet the 'types' of people portrayed in his tales exemplifying in some sense social classes. He was able to shape the speech and ways of parodying the very people among whom his literature would become popular. His narrative was closer to the society with which they felt identified. Works Cited1. Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. Np: Blackmask Online, 1999. 89-90. Network. 7 December 2013.2. Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. Np: Blackmask Online, 1999. 4. Web. 7 December 2013.3. "Geoffrey Chaucer." 2013. The Biography Channel website. Dec 8 2013, 10:57 am .4. "Romance." Encyclopedia Britannica. Np, nd Web. 10 December. 2013. .