FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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pilgrimage to have fun
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display all segments of medieval England.
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birthday celebration for his friend.
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to begin writing career
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Detailed explanation-1: -For Chaucer, the pilgrimage provides a reason why all these strangers have come in contact with one another, as well as the motivation for each storyteller to reflect on their own position in society. Each story is in some way autobiographical.
Detailed explanation-2: -The most important aspect of real-life pilgrimage used by Chaucer in the Canterbury Tales is the fact that a wide variety of people, of different classes and different places might be found together on a pilgrimage.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Canterbury Tales and Pilgrimages Pilgrims who undertook the journey hoped to prove their devotion to their faith and find spiritual fulfillment by being in the same places they believed Jesus once lived.
Detailed explanation-4: -1345–1400) was enormously popular in medieval England, with over 90 copies in existence from the 1400s. Its popularity may be due to the fact that the tales were written in Middle English, a language that developed after the Norman invasion, after which those in power would have spoken French.