B) Canterbury Tales Remix

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is a tale told by many point of views. It shows the complex ideas of human nature and its tendency to be ironic and counteract the social "norms" that have been ingrained in society's manners. Through direct juxtaposition, Chaucer simultaneously creates a sense of unity through the common theme of differences that is apparent in all the tales told; everyone has flaws and that is the unifying trait.

We create something for out own use by destroying it and then we try to go back and save it. We use, abuse, apologize, and cycle back again. The irony is that we are trying to find something new but the essence of human nature is to recycle back around to what we had before.

Friendship and love is ironic. Humans search their whole lives to find that other person that they can share everything with, but when you find them you hide yourself even more. Your heart turns into a tear drop because you need sadness to know what happiness is and seen in the Canterbury Tales. All the tales revolve around some kind of sad irony and although humorous, they point to the reality of how things were; life was the opposite of what is expected of it.



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In the Canterbury Tales point of view is crucial in the "countenance" of the story. The story is told from only the narrator and how he perceives the others, but readers do not get how the readers perceive themselves or how other characters perceive each other. Readers have to trust the narrator and yet again that is the ironic part of human nature; we are expected to trust someone that we do not know and so we ask questions.

Throughout the prologue the characters were described in both direct and indirect characterization. The wealthier characters who were towards the top of the social pyramid were described more of what they were wearing because that is all they were in that time. The wealthy were just objects of admiration and money whereas the poorer citizens were considered for their character. The lower class was described with more of their profession and character rather than what they wore. Throughout the tales told more depth to the characters are shown and the irony that royals have personality that doesn't match their nice clothing and the lower class was more heavily weighed on their outer appearance that was a direct reflection of who they were which was the opposite of what was intended.

Okay, we are different it's true.
And I don't like to do all the things that you do.
But here's one thing to think through,
You're a lot like me and I'm a lot like you!
-- Robert Alan Silverstein

The moral is that all the classes are the same. They all have their flaws, shown through the technique of irony, and these flaws create the same person. All the characteristics of the different classes of people in the tales all can coalesce into one human being who is both moral and immoral, excessive and limited, licentious and probity. Life in Chaucer's time was black and white but Chaucer was trying to say that human nature is contradiction but that is in all of us and that is what brings us together no matter what title.