LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
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“Piers Plowman”
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“The Canterbury Tales”
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“The Book of Margery Kempe”
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Detailed explanation-1: -Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is sometimes called an estates satire, meaning that it satirizes the three estates, or sociopolitical groups in England at the time he was writing.
Detailed explanation-2: -The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales is an estates satire. In the Host’s portraits of the pilgrims, he sets out the functions of each estate and satirizes how members of the estates – particularly those of the Church – fail to meet their duties.
Detailed explanation-3: -An extremely vivid example is the skipper’s story, which tells about the love triangle and the promissory notes between its participants. The corruption of the Catholic Church was a serious problem during Chaucer’s time and a major theme in The Canterbury Tales.
Detailed explanation-4: -The first and most important example of allegory, which is a story that can be understood on both a literal and symbolic level, is The Canterbury Tales itself, taken as a whole.