EN 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Narratology, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Technique
22 Dec 2016
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In the texts we have looked at so far, travelling has been conceived predominantly as movement, with the primary focus on what happens during the journey. For chaucer, travel, in the form of a pilgrimage, served as a framework for social and political satire. The pilgrimage brought different people from different walks of life together, and this provided chaucer the fodder" for his comments. For swift, travel was also a means to create satire. It is what gulliver discovers on his travels, his adventures in strange and foreign" lands, that is the focus of the story, and forms the rough material for the author"s satire. In both texts, a narrator comments on what is going on, and. Although huck is not necessarily a reliable" narrator, he too tells his story based on what happens" to him as he travels down the mississippi. As readers, we can interpret how these adventures change.
