FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
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He is represented as a very clever and practical man, who knows everything about the trade and the trade routes. He is solemn and strong, and skilled in business. Chaucer describes his professiion as a noble one, even the clothes he wears reveal his ability in business and elegance.
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Chaucer describes the merchant as a very clever and practical man, he is very fashionable and he seems to know everything about trade and trade routes. He is described as very realistic and concrete, but Chaucer is not amazed by his profession and he let us know he is quite ambiguous and not so rich as he pretends to be. We can feel all Chaucer’s irony in these few lines.
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -How is the merchant represented? He is represented as a very clever and practical man, who knows everything about the trade and the trade routes. He is solemn and strong, and skilled in business. Chaucer describes his professiion as a noble one, even the clothes he wears reveal his ability in business and elegance.
Detailed explanation-2: -Chaucer presents the Merchant as a not entirely honorable man. He is a flashy dresser, in part to obscure his financial troubles from his money-changing activities. He bases his complaints about his wife on a mere two months of marriage, surely not enough time to develop any reasonable opinion.
Detailed explanation-3: -In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer characterizes the Merchant to fit the role of an actual merchant of the time period. Through the way he dresses with his patterned cloak, flemish beaver hat, and his high fashion sense, one could presume that he was skilled and wise in his endeavors with trading, borrowing, and lending.
Detailed explanation-4: -In The Canterbury Tales, the description of the merchant provides an external layer of success. He is neatly groomed, and his clothes are colorful, clean, and new. He exudes an aura of success.
Detailed explanation-5: -In the Merchant’s Prologue, we learn that he is unhappily married to a shrewish woman who could win a fight against the devil. This state of affairs motivates him to tell a tale about a man who ignores his friend’s advice against marriage and comes to regret it.