What Is Geoffrey Chaucer's View Of The Canterbury Tales

Briana Green-Rogers March 31, 2018 SoardEnglish LiteraturePsychoAnalytic Theory of Chaucer Canterbury Tales, a story of many diverse characters with many different tales. GEoffrey Chaucer is the author and also a character inside of his own story who narrates this pilgrimage to Canterbury. Digging into Chaucer as a character and an author, we learn where his views come from and his reasonings for how and what he writes of. The immensity of analyzing Chaucer goes so deep into mostly theory as many views can be seen of such character. I perceive Chaucer as a man who has lived a very viewing life making him able to Geoffrey Chaucer, a child who grew up going to a Catholic school as a child, to being in the war as a teen, to being a well known poet. Being from a family of successful merchants, Geoffrey has seen

This diverse view he had of all aspects of life, gave him the opportunity to be able to become an amazing writer as he could honestly write of a non bias view of each kind of people in life and have others able to relate. In his most known story of Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer creates himself as a narrator and character into his own story of many different people coming together on a pilgrimage where he writes his impressions of each based off only his memory and what he chooses to remember. Leading him to seem as a naive character at beginning of story. He then expresses his true views on society through each character he creates and shows it through the tale he has each character tell. In these tales, he incorporates values and characterizations of society to reflect