Chaucer's Use Of Satire In The Canterbury Tales

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Chaucer’s use of Satire to Reach his Audience.
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Chaucer is one of the brightest men in his time. There are many points he wanted to get through writing The Canterbury Tales. The Canterbury Tales are made up of many different stories which were made up. Chaucer uses these tales to get his point across on a couple different subjects. There was women complaining about not having enough power, men working the system to make money. He say all of this from a different view than most.. He puts out his opinion it thee tales he wrote. In The Canterbury Tales: The Prologue written by Geoffrey Chaucer, Chaucer use satire to reach his Audience on three main points. In the Pardoner’s Prologue, Chaucer attacks the hypocrisy of the church to reach the audience. In this tale there are a lot of crooked people like the fryer, the sumner, and most importantly the Pardoner. The Pardoner was priest of a Catholic Church at the time. He took advantage of the church and was making people pay him for their sins. “For my exclusive purpose is to win and not at all to castigate their sin.” (lines 21-24). Chaucer didn’t like how this was happening inside the church, where you are there to praise god. The Pardoner was only there for the money. Chaucer attacks the hypocrisy of …show more content…

The wife of bath had five marriages. Everyone she had married had died and wanted to have another marriage. The wife of Bath manipulates the men to find what she wants. All she wanted was to have power over her man.”A women wants the self-same sovereignty over her husband as over her love.”(lines 184-185) The Wife of Bath’s Tale. At this time in age the men controlled the women. Chaucer writes almost 30 pages in this prologue to attack the patriarchy between men and women. Women didn't like how men controlled everything. The wife of bath manipulates the men so she has power over them then the husband having the

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