| This paper mainly demonstrates The Canterbury Tales 'creative feature on realism, humanism and artistic techniques.In Tales Chaucer uses a large quantity of London dialect to present social customs and conditions at that time, which provide a true atmosphere to reader and build a vivid social scene of British in 14thc. Owing to the limitation of science, some ignorant ideas may be found in tales. However, the unique enthusiasm on religion and warm Sarcasm like spring sunshine, full of wisdom still impress our modern reader deeply.Chaucer lives in a time which strongly on morality, and he himself firmly insists the traditional Christianity faith that super natural power participate daily life, while his work seldom shorten of respect for individual intelligence, liberation, fraternity sympathy, justice and humanity spirit. No matter on conscious of feminism or well assurance of religious belief, even the style of poem, all embody a vigorous opposition no ascetics, a surely consent to secular life a eulogy on love and individualism which contains the soul of future humanism.Besides, realism and humanism, Chaucer makes use of two characteristic narrative skills to build the whole Tales. One of them is frame structure and the other is narrative personification. Chaucer combines all the figures with different characters and their stories with a large frame. He designs a pilgrimage to collect and uniform prologue, transition. Preface discourse together and constructs a "loose connection "and "endless conclusion". Necessary portrait is described with the rich colorful language style which offer the "tales' an atmosphere of drama. Just the help of extremely personal speech, pilgrims in the "tales "form their own character and begin to "perform" on the life stage. When consists plot, Chaucer describes the pilgrimage as an instructive theme in order to push on the factors of move, change, experience, attitude and accent which build the plot but hardly exist subjectively. The speed of development is controlled by element of dispute. There always have other pilgrims join in one's talking, either to the stories or the speaker himself and in the course; many disputes are continuous by that. It's worthy to be care that such disputes never have solved. The passing of truth here is covered by an unclear color. These unsystematic features symbolized the ancient Gothic order and at the same time, the open parallel construction comes from the heritage of Eastern Narration. Both of them enlarge the space of context and also make overall frame mutual with relax and nature. Chaucer weaves all the themes into a "spider web". No matter how to present, clearly or unclearly, it denotes that there must exist a world God in human's society, we could feel but never understand completely.The other feature when Chaucer composes Tales lie in the use of three person narrations such as poet I, pilgrim Chaucer and other pilgrims. Chaucer appears in Tales firstly as a poet or a media of narration whose work is to introduce other pilgrims' physical character and declare their programs; sometimes, comment or the hot topic and even expresses his own idea. Pilgrim Chaucer also supplies a special view like poet I as a witness. His identification sounds like writer in Arabic literature. He is a by-stand broadcaster to prove the" truth" of every tales. He also let out an invitation for reader to attend the story telling as well as appreciate and justify by their private taste., in that so, this literature journey went on its way objectively and multiply. Magnificent description of figure as another feature of the tales concerns tightly with the adoption of third person plural form. By "leisure detail", orderly cooperation on tale's type, "agreement factor" or "flaw expose", Chaucer departs the stories to different pilgrims, and makes them stand out and perform themselves volunteer and finally become a group of living figures.To certain degree, Tales can be called as a British poem volume of 14th century n... |
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