I understood the
prologue to be a long description of each character. The discussion in class
and with other peers on my own time has helped me understood the idea of the
prologue much better. Though i am going to have to do some reviewing in the
book for further details I think I got a good grip on it now. I would like to
know if the tales came from Chaucer’s own experience or from people during that
time or maybe even both. What I got out of our conversation today in class was
that the characters are so unique, all of different ages, personas, from diff. environments,
and social classes. One thing unites them and that is the pilgrimage. The
prologue also allows the author to test our expectations for other people, to
really think twice about how we think someone should act if they have a certain
title. The popular technique in the prologue is Irony for the same reason that
the reader has certain expectations of someone and is humorously deceived. I
would like to read the story of the Nun because she seems so sassy and not nun
material. I feel like she would be entertaining to hear about. She has an edgy
personality that could easily start conversations going.
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