Geoffrey Wolff

Myrddin Wyllt was a Welsh profit and considered to be a mad man. A man named Geoffrey of Monmouth introduced Myrddin into the Arthurian legend as the wizard called Merlin, who was associated with the town of Carmarthen, which was located in Southern Wales. He’s also accredited with being the chief bard in Middle English poetry, and is recognized for having several poems in the Black Book of Carmarthen and the Red Book of Hergest. He’s known by several different names such as Wyllt the Wild,…

In legends, King Arthur is the Priest-King of Gwydion, but that’s just it. It’s legends. No one knows if he was real or not. Many believed that he was a Celtic Warlord who beat the Anglo-Saxons in the 400s and many British histories have mentioned him. The King Arthur literature have many different types.They were adventures filled with, battles and marvels, a tragic love story, a Christian allegory, and a conflict between love and duty. It was originally blended with Celtic history and myth,…

Geoffrey Chaucer was known as the father of english liturture is considered the greatest english poet, of the middle ages and was known as the first poet to be buried in poets corner of West Abbey. When he achieved during his lifetime as an young author, astronomer and composing a scientific astrolabe for his ten year old son, Lewis. Chaucer also maintainned an active career in civil service as a bureaucrat and diplomat. His many works are books of duchess, house of fame, legend good women and…

n the prologue to “The Canterbury Tales” there were many different characteristics and personalities through out the story. There were the rich, the poor, the fakers and the showy people. The well mannered, the skilled the wise, and the honest. The different groups of people often had some of the same people in each, in some ways most of the people were a blend of each of the personalities . we find people like this in todays society. The people of the stories did wrong and they knew what was…

The pardoner in The Canterburry Tales is without a doubt one of the most disgusting and evil characters of the series. In the general prologue it is clear that he is a corrupt clergyman that does not represent Jesus’s message. To add to the immorality of the character, Chaucer portrays him as a homosexual, which is hinted at in both the general prologue and at the end of the pardoner’s tale. When the narrator describe the pardoner in the general prologue, he mentions that he has long blonde…

Corruption of Middle ages During the Middle ages the Catholic religion was the most common religion people would follow during this time period.The church would ruler over most of the townspeople during this time. The church had lied to the people and made them believe indulgences were real.The Pardoner’s tale reveals influence on the Catholic religion during the middle ages, by illustrating their doctrine and the lives of the people in order to show the culture of the time. In the story “the…

Who Should Be Listening? (A discussion of Chaucer’s use of satire to reach his intended audience) Who is this message really for? There are several people that can read something, but only a select few that will truly understand the meaning and know what the message is conveying. The message being written is important, but so it the intended audience that it is trying to reach. Chaucer was faced with this problem when expressing this thoughts in his work Canterbury Tales. Chaucer had huge…

Mae Corrigan Mrs. Jacomme Honors British Literature Period 8 23 November 2015 “Payback Appearing in The Canterbury Tales” The reoccurring theme of payback is forever present throughout literature. In The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, there are multiple examples of vengeance and retaliation. Chaucer creates a frame story as twenty-nine pilgrims start their journey to the shrine of Saint Thomas á Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. A story telling competition commences between the pilgrims,…

Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales’ are some of the greatest works in literature. He takes thirty-one different characters of a pilgrimage and tells their stories from his perspective. He uses some of his characters as allegories or interpreted with hidden meanings. Two of the tales that are similar yet different are The Knight’s Tale and The Squire’s Tale. These two tales have the same underlying theme but the tone and saturation are different in their own respects. These two tales have…

Geoffrey Chaucer is regarded as the first great English poet. He lived during a time of war, plague and social revolt. Despite these terrible things, society was very vibrant, creative, and increasingly literate (“Chaucer and His Works”). There is not a lot of information about Chaucer`s early life. He was probably born in London, sometime between 1340 and 1345. His father was a successful wine merchant, but there is no further information about his childhood or education. In 1357, he served as…