Use of Satire in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales

"The Canterbury Tales" was a novel written by Geoffery Chaucer in 1386. In the prologue to Chaucer's work, he describes certain characters using the literary device known as satire. His descriptions of the characters do a few different things. First, they give the reader an accurate vision of the time period that the novel takes place, fourteenth-century England, through the context of the character descriptions such as their dress. Second, his characterizations reflect Chaucer's own personality, …

…advantage of. Through the understanding of the satirical characterization that Chaucer uses in the prologue of "The Canterbury Tales," it is obvious that he has a comical wit about himself, and is a skilled in using the literary device of satire. By using satire, Chaucer depicts certain characters in a much more interesting manner than that of other writers, and this is an asset that has probably attributed to the wide success of his works.