Tuesday, October 8, 2013

What I Meant to Say Was

I noticed that Chaucer was able to alter his style for each of the tales. He keeps the same scheme, but he gives distinctive personalities to each of the speakers within the tales. In the Lawyer's Tale he makes the speaker out to be a straight forward person that didn't have much motion. Then in the Merchant's Tale he makes the main character, Januarie a kind of sad older person, all just by switching their vocabularies and having them express themselves in different ways.

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