Canterbury Tale Transmedia Essay

  Geoffery Chaucer, the author of The Canterbury Tales, has endured a great literature fame for several centuries. His story, filled with satirical, humorous, comical situations, repartee, and diversity, contains a handful of stories that differ from one another greatly and hardly resemble one another. Chaucer demonstrates many different social classes, genders, characters, lifestyles, and perceptions.  Utilizing these techniques, he is able to both honor and question social and literary traditions.  This video depicted above includes examples of the methods Geoffery Chaucer utilized to introduce and portray his characters throughout his story. Whether he flat out provides the audience with direct characteristics of the character or hinting to the audience how the character is by dialogue, foreshadowing, etc.













This picture represents the comic sense of humor Chaucer contains and portrays throughout his piece. He describes characters whose characteristics conflict with the purpose or reputation of their occupation/lifestyle. For example, he depicts a greasy, bald, dirty man who's a cook which is unusual because commonly, cooks are required to be presentable and sanitary.













This image demonstrates Chaucer's dense descriptions of the levels of societies each of his characters consider/occupy. Whether it be the vulnerable, middle-class carpenter, or the lower-class, greasy cook, there's always differences between the characters he portrays and their lifestyles/social classes.

This picture represents the diversity that is involved between the unity of all of the social classes in the world. His intention for this story was to force the world to realize and acknowledge that even though we may all be different, if we come and work together, we can accomplish great things. We are all equal no matter what class, ethnicity, or gender.

 

 

This image below represents Chaucer's intent to force us to acknowledge how different people and things can be interpreted in many ways by different people. To some, this may look like a wine glass of some sort, while to others it may look like to faces/portraits staring at one another. Chaucer demonstrates this by the interpretations of others to certain characters. For instance, the carpenter that is introduced in the Miller's tale is considered insane, mad, and vulnerable to society, while to others he is seen just as a middle-class, normal man.