MIDDLE ENGLISH and THE CANTERBURY
TALES
In this
week, we learnt features of the middle ages also dwelled on the major points in
mediaval period. I want to mention important point which I learned at this
lesson.
First of
all, I want to speak
of the middle Ages. Middle Ages is a period between the 5th and 14th centuries.
Generally, Scholastic thought dominated in this period so it is known as a dark
period. These are the prime events of this period:
•
The
Decline of feudalism ( 10th - century)
Feudalism started to subversion due to economic and trade factors in 10th century
•
The
Decline and the corruption in the church
decreased confidence
in the church
•
The
Blackdeath (1348)
The population declined due to belackdeath
•
The
Peasants’ Revolt (1381)
•
The
Norman Conquest ( 11th-century)
•
-French culture came to England.
•
-French language became the official
language.
-Effect of french culture started in english literature.
In medieval period, every person
latch on to the king blessedly also king is served by all people becuse he is
the authority. Also in this period we
can see feudalism. Feudalism, was a hierarchical system. In this system, people
were given land and worked and fought
for them in return. King is at the top of this system. But later on,
Feudalism and Peasant’s Revolt declined. As a result of this decline,
capitalism started to come up with the selling of aristocracy’s land because the land was
bought by merchants and workers demanded wages. This system based on capital
Money so this caused to capitalism.
Literature in middle ages, is
nonpersonal. Work is more important than author so most of the Works were
anonymous. Also Latin and French influenced the English literature. The
canterbury tales are one of these
works.
The
Canterbury Tales is a collection of
some stories which are told by a group
of pilgrims from Southwark to Canterbury. It includes twenty four different
tales. Geoffrey Chaucer canterbury tales are written in middle ages with
using rhymed and metered, wide vocabulary, clever phrases and many dialects.
Canterbury tales are formed a lot of tales which are told by pilgrims. Also this
tales have a lot of character which symbolize various people and varios
things in public like the wife of bath, the pordoner, the miller, the
prioress, the monk, the friar, the summoner, the host, the parson, the
squire, the clerk etc..
We
can learn a lot of things from this work about english literature and old
social-economic situation so it has a
great important in our lives.
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