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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