LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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He wanted to give us a glimpse of English society at the time.
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He wanted us to know about the game they played back then.
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He wanted to give us a glimpse of what he had been through.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer tells us not only about social change and religious diversity in his society, but also about everyday life. Reading the tales helps us learn a lot about eating, drinking, and traveling in late medieval England.
Detailed explanation-2: -Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in vernacular, Middle English, because that was the type of English spoken by the English people at the time. Since many works were written in French and Latin, there was a dearth of works in English.
Detailed explanation-3: -Since all the tales end with some sort of moral or lesson, many people take The Canterbury Tales for simple children’s fables. However, Chaucer’s main purpose for the tales is to portray the existence of morality and the lack thereof in his time.