SHAKESPEAR
Through the
perspectives of themes such as “Power” and “The Body”, one can argue that it is
evidently the most consistent between the two eras in British Literature. Geoffrey
Chaucer in the Canterbury Tales
pushes extremities in the process with psychological play and manipulative
characters. Characters in the tales which should be closely related to Jesus
and Christianity are at the expense of humor, ironically intended for the literate
crowd in the 9th Century which would be the clergy, Kinships between
Kings and Knights, and possibly the lower class servants of those
mentioned. In The Millers Tale, Chaucer somewhat daunts at a character known in
the tale as a incents-swinger that works in the church. However, the boy is
ridiculed and finessed by both Alison Nicholay saying “God woot, my sweete
lief”, “I have thee brought a ring”. In
this part of the tale, Absaolon the incense-swinge is aware that he has been
fooled and does what no is absolutely horrendous through a Christ-like figure.
The Body however is used as many ways
to depict images of characters of power and of a lower social class. Power