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Figurative Language And Satire In Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales

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In The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer delivers a myriad of humorous anecdotes of 26 traveling pilgrims. Throughout the story, Chaucer accurately depicts and addresses social injustices of his time in a subtle manner, satirizing the social roles of typical English citizens, ultimately revealing the values and norms of the Middle Ages. The author carefully and cleverly crafts his arguments through the use of figurative language and satire. “The Wife of Bath’s”, the tale centers around a medieval knight who commits a crime by raping a young girl. Ironically, knights are thought of as righteous figures, men who carried themselves with dignity and high morals. They should be figures of honor and strict discipline, one who respects and abides

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