Question

The purpose of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is to present the entire spectrum of human personalities by showing their qualities, flaws, and eccentricities. How does the author accomplish this feat? What attitude toward humankind emerges from this narrative poem?

Can someone break this down better for me, ideas etc

Answer 1

Well depending on how much you read... The canterbury tell provides a description of every person on the journey. The author gives a detailed over view of everyone and their hypocrisy.

Can you tell what it is you don't understand please? :)

Answer 2

they present the entire spectrum of human personalities by showing their qualities, eccentricities

does this mean that every type of person and how people are all different?

Answer 3

I want no answers ! just help

Answer 4

Kind of, it's mostly relating to the people the author wrote about, not everyone in general.

Answer 5

Not trying to give answers lol.

Answer 6

just putting it out there because someone has been coming to all of my questions threatening to report me for some reason @Perspective7337

Answer 7

No, I understand. I saw someone doing that the other day.

Answer 8

Well thanks, I gave ya a medal :) i just don't know i just needed verification that I was thinking it meant what i tmeant haha

Answer 9

Well I know I didn't necessarily explain it the best so if you need it just ask and I'll see if I can make actual sense lol.

Answer 10

well i think if i answer something along the lines of he went and took different people in different situations explaining how different personalities get etc it'll make sense with wha the quetion asks right

Answer 11

Well think of the question... basically saying, how does he successfully show the personalities, flaws, etc. of people in society in his writing? And then What attitude or mood does this poem give off? Is it a happy like woooo humanity kind of poem lol, or is it gloomy, realistic, discouraging?

Answer 12

haha okay awsome. care to explain one more to me?

Answer 13

Sure go ahead.

Answer 14

when there's so many words and questions like that i get all flustered

Answer 15

I just read that to. x) Horrid thing, I hated it. I know exactly what you mean, they need to get to the point. Hold on.

Answer 16

Oh sweet :)

Answer 17

The poetry of Thomas Gray shared many traits with the contemporary neoclassical tradition of the late eighteenth century, especially in its sophisticated and polished style. Yet scholars refer to poems such as “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” as examples of pre-Romanticism, since they express a new interest in nature and common people and a new heightened sensibility that were distinctive of the Romantic poetry of the early nineteenth century.

Answer 18

Pretty straight forward. Trust me just read it.

Answer 19

okay i read it, i getcha now :)

Answer 20

There you go haha. :)