Chaucer's Use Of Satire In The Canterbury Tales

Say One Thing and Possibly Mean Another
(An analysis of the use of satire in The Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffrey Chaucer, and how the person that the satire was aimed towards was affected.)
There will always be people that are two-faced. That tell the world one thing, when really only trying to get his or her own gain out of it. These are the type of people that are going to do everything they can to improve on their own lives, while making it seem like they are really helping others and that is something that Geoffrey Chaucer did not like, and did not put up with. “Son of a merchant, page in a royal house, soldier, diplomat, and royal clerk, Geoffrey Chaucer saw quite a bit of the medieval world.” (Stevenson ) Growing up he did experience all of these things and in his twenties he began writing a series of tales that picked apart people in the middle ages society. It is interesting because without this writing the world would not know a lot about the middle ages themselves. Chaucer attacked three different categories of people in these tales and those where, the religious, the upper class, and the lower class. That is interesting because
These tales told the stories of made up people on a pilgrimage, and this is how Chaucer got away with writing what he did. Whenever someone would accuse him of his writing, he would just say that he did not say it, how could you blame him when he was just writing down tales other people had told him. Everyone was required to go on a pilgrimage because they “Were regarded as penitential acts reflecting the pilgrimage of the Christian spirit toward its Creator.” (Flagg) This particular pilgrimage was one that had a lot of tales to go along with it, and these tales will never be forgotten by the people they affected with the satire woven into every line of these