Question

Discuss Chaucer's use of satire. In your response, cite specific text-based evidence

Answer 1

Satire is defined as the the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices. This exposure and criticism is particularly used in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tale, a satiric literature. He uses the characters to represent real people in the real world. Through Chaucer's representation of the characters, the readers became aware of the vices and negative behavior that are present in real life.

Answer 2

Satire is the utilization of cleverness to uncover somebody or something's indecencies or imperfections. In The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer utilizes parody to uncover the flaws of establishments and basic generalizations of his time.

Defilement of the Catholic Church was a noteworthy issue amid Chaucer's time and, is a noteworthy subject in The Canterbury Tales. Using parody, he opens this issue to the gathering of people. A noteworthy case of this is the exaggeration of how terrible the religious figures. The main good religious figure, the person, is putting it mildly whose unadulterated way of life is intended to represent the contaminated ways of life of the other church individuals.