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the prologue and the tale
Title: the prologue and the tale
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 875 | Pages: 3.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
the prologue and the tale
The relationship of the Prologue to the Tale:
Truth and fiction
Within the imagined (by Chaucer) world of the Canterbury pilgrims, we meet various
characters who present their "own" fictions. In each case, the tale is in some way a
reflection of the teller, and vice versa. While Chaucer portrays the pilgrims initially in set
pieces in the General Prologue, we learn more about them as they tell their tales, express
opinions and trade insults, …showed first 75 words of 875 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 875 total…Chaucer doubtless sees that these weaknesses are those of the Wife, as narrator: before
this the Pilgrims have had many excellent examples of differing kinds, and many more will
follow. Part of the skill and humour of the whole work lies in the exceptions that prove the
rule - one of the two tales offered by Chaucer (the pilgrim, supposedly reporting the
others' tales) is so tedious he is obliged to give up and try another.
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