AGES ERA PERIOD
VICTORIAN AGE
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The Wife of Bath, The Clerk, Sir Gawain and The Franklin are characters and tale-tellers in this work.
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“The General Prologue’ is appended to The Canterbury Tales.
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In all, Chaucer tells thirty tales in this work.
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The Canterbury Tales remained unfinished at the time of its author’s death.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The General Prologue is the first part of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. It introduces the frame story, in which a group of pilgrims travelling to the shrine of Thomas Becket in Canterbury agree to take part in a storytelling competition, and describes the pilgrims themselves.
Detailed explanation-2: -The statement which is true about the Tales is that the diverse characters of the Tales are unlike the heroes from epics instead the characters are mixture from all walks of social class.
Detailed explanation-3: -The General Prologue is, arguably, the most familiar part of the Canterbury Tales. It frames the longer story collection by setting the season, describing the pilgrims who will narrate the tales, and laying the ground rules of the storytelling contest.
Detailed explanation-4: -His art of characterization is specially marked by three things namely realism, types and individuals and wit and humour. He is very realistic in the portrayal of his age as well as his characters. His realism is particularly evident in his The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales and The Canterbury Tales.