Chaucer's World

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This paper examines famed author Geoffrey Chaucer's works as well as the various occupations, travels and experiences which provided the author with a keen insight into human nature which greatly influenced his writing style. This paper also reviews and discusses several of Chaucer's novels including: "The Canterbury Tales" and "Troilus and Criseyde."

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"If Chaucer hadn't broken free of the auspicious life that he was born
to, being son of a wealthy vintner and trained to be a diplomat and civil servant, his writing of such characters, as in the Wife of Bath and The Pardoner, would not have had the life-like qualities they do. It was in his later life that Chaucer gained first-hand knowledge of the the corruption in the medieval church and the often times unscrupulous affairs in court and the high-handed ways of merchants."

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