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The Age of Chaucer -Introduction  

• Important Question with Answers
  • What are the salient features of Chaucer’s art of characterization? Discuss with illustrations from the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. Or Comment on Chaucer’s method of characterization, pointing out whether his characters, as depicted in the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, are types of individuals. Or Discuss Chaucer’s technique of characterization in the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales.
    
  • Q2. “Chaucer’s group of pilgrims constitute a picture of his times”. Discuss.

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    If you were writing a social history of England in the fourteenth century, what help would you get from the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales?

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    “Chaucer gives us a microcosm of England society in the Prologue itself”. Elucidate this statement.

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    “Chaucer showed the world as it did exist-the England of his days-a world of reality, a world various and beautiful, but hitherto kept away from literature”. Discuss.

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    “A cross-section of English life in the fourteenth century”. Is this an adequate summing up of the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales?
   

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