ENGL 220- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 25 pages long!)
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Aka dark age because the later people considered them too religious, too. Anglos saxon who contributed to the fall of the roman empire. French became the language of the court. Why has chaucer"s english evolved into the early modern english but not sir gawain"s. Gawain was from the north and chaucer wrote it in a region where people spoke and wrote english. Satire of the members of the three estates. More and more people did not fight into the three estates. Knight doesn"t travel with someone from the lower estates estates to travel together. Wife of bath sought her 6th husband (or victim cause number 6) The poet and his narrator must not be confused (298) The narrator knows the name of the cook"s horse but not. Narrator just accounted portraits and didn"t provide comment on the cook"s name conflict. Want audience to pass their own judgment. Chaucer"s work published on the arrival of the printing press.
