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Canterbury Tales Chaunticleer - School Essays

Canterbury Tales Chaunticleer

Canterbury Tales: Chaunticleer
In the book Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer, gives us a
stunning tale about a rooster named Chaunticleer. Chaunticleer, who is
the King of his domain in his farmland kingdom. Like a King, he quotes

passages from intellectuals, dreams vivid dreams, has a libido that

runs like a bat out of hell, and is described as a very elegant

looking Rooster. He has every characteristic of a person belonging to

the upper class. Chaucer's hidden meanings and ideas make us think

that the story is about roosters and farm animals, but in reality he

is making the Aristocracy of his time period the subject of his

mockery by making the reader ...

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been making

all the stories up in order to win the argument with Pertelote, but,

this seems unlikely because he does not take heed to his own advice

and stay away from the fox that encounters him later. He is educated

enough to know these supposed quotations but not intelligent enough to

understand the real meaning of them. It is if he simply brings because

they help him win the argument with his spouse and not because he

actually believes what they say. Chaucer is using the idea that the

Aristocracy has schooling throughout their childhood, but it is only

done to have seemingly important but empty conversations.

His physical appearance is also described with such beautiful passion

that it makes us think Chaunticleer is heaven on earth. "His comb was

redder than fine coral, and crenellated like a castle wall; his bill

was black and shone like jet; his legs and toes were like azure; his

nails whiter than lily; and his color ...

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