How Did Geoffrey Chaucer's Fulfilled Life During The Middle Ages

Geoffrey Chaucer lived a fulfilled life during the 14th century in comparison to others during the Middle English period, many of whom often lost their lives at an early age due to disease, famine, or war. Chaucer was born into a family with relations to the church and soon became a civil servant to the king in his early teen years. For decades to come he would continue to rise in status as a servant of the church, allowing him to also become very well educated and begin his works as a writer; a title he otherwise may have never established had it not been for his rank in the church. That being said, many are left to wonder if it wasn’t the church that brought Chaucer to his final days due to his elicit and provocative writings known as the Canterbury Tales.
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Chaucer is giving praise to the Lord and insisting that his writing and intentions were good. However, it is interesting to note that he continues his Retraction in a very baroque and sarcastic manner, and even goes as far as to mention many of his other writings that may not have directed people for their betterment like he had intended. It could be said that Geoffrey Chaucer wrote his retraction out of honest and sincere regret for having come too close to sin, but for someone to go into such profundity of two dozen tales it makes it difficult to be certain of his true intentions. A much more justifiable response would be that it was aggressive persuasion on the behalf of the Catholic Church that compelled Chaucer to write the Retraction. Even so, Chaucer had such endowment to write these epic poems in such a way that they would begin to transform the Middle English writings and influence literature for centuries to