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Boccaccio And Chaucer Analysis

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So does David Wallace: “the most significant witness to the Decameron’s influence in England is Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.”(Wallace,6). Wallace’s statement, that the radical difference between Boccaccio and Chaucer is‘‘Chaucer’s decision to bring his female protagonist to prominence’’,(Wallace,17)identifies the single most important change from a tale in which the Rash Promise and its female giver exist only as motivators of fantasy and the game question, ‘‘which man demonstrates the greater generosity’’.However, the change is much more than simply giving Dorigen prominence, because in Boccaccio’s versions there was no comparable female persona. The personages of the comedie humaine, expose the attitude that comes along with each tale in the prefaces,which appends an excessively forceful frame narrative to the book. Chaucer combining individually apparent stories and focusing on the force personages ,demonstrated peerless creativity,despite his trip to Italy shortly before the İtalian Renaissance shaped him a base of his works.Although being impressed by Boccaccio 's dainty tales of Teseida and by the tales from the Decameron;the ninth story and the sixth story of the ninth day,he unified the plot of the tales with English community in unique multifarious ways which signalized him and timeless between English authors.Chaucer introducing his touch close to disposition of his extraordinary personages in his magnum opus from all social stratas progressed his

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