In the book Canterbury
Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer, gives us a stunning tale about a
rooster named Chaunticleer. Chaunticleer, who is the King
of his domain in his farmland kingdom. Like a King, he
quotes passages from intellectuals, dreams vivid dreams, has
a libido that runs like a bat out of hell, and is described as a
very elegant looking Rooster. He has every characteristic of
a person belonging to the upper class. Chaucer's hidden
meanings and ideas make us think that the story is about
roosters and farm animals, but in reality he is making the
Aristocracy of his time period the subject of his mockery by
making the reader realize how clueless the Aristocracy can
be to the way things are in the real World. Chaucer
describes Chaunticleer in many different ways. One of them
is his language. Chaunticleer's language is that of a scholar.
He quotes many different scriptures in a conversation with
Pertelote, such as, Saint Kenelm, Daniel and Joseph (from
the bible), and......
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