E 315P Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sex Organ, Geoffrey Chaucer
Document Summary
Gets involved in court with multiple kings - shows awareness of class - recognizes people"s status - also an outsider. Wrote stories in english - sense of nationalism - appeal to commoners language. Ct"s prologue - rhyming - rain is personified. It"s april and raining - gentle rain has power - juxtapose. First part about nature - then shift to religion - pilgrimage, canterbury and other vocab. She"s a good wife and has a business, but is also prideful of her work and charity. She gets around - many marriages and narrator comments on her. She is controlling of her relationships and surroundings. People judge her on her marriages because she is a woman. She says it"s her duty to marry and reproduce but she has no kids.
