Canterbury Tales & Decameron

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GEOFFREY CHAUCER

• A group of people who narrates each one a tale.
• Thirty people of different social class

• Background: pilgrimage to Canterbury which means the allegory of human life.
• The Canterbury tales is composed of twenty-two novels written in verses and two long narrations in prose
• The narrator interacts with listeners.

• The writer at the beginning of the stories describes the narrator or speaks about the situation of him with a prologue

• There are personifications.
• There are references to Greek mythology
• Supernatural events like transformations.
• There are wonderful creatures.
• There are Christian elements.
• In the tales is reflected the contemporary English society
• The Canterbury tales is incomplete .
• The pilgrims’ names often are refereed to their work or to a particular character of their personality

• The time of the story is indefinite because the narration is incomplete.
• Each character speaks in a different way according to the social class.

• At the end there is a prize for the best story; this prize consists in a lunch

• This work is social critic to the clergy, to the education and the social institutions like the marriage.

GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

• A group of people who narrates each one a tale .
• Ten people: seven men and three women of the same social class
• Background: pest in Florence in 1348

• The Decameron is composed of one hundred novels in prose

• The narrator doesn’t interacts with listeners.
• The writer at the beginning of the stories describes the narrator or speaks about the situation of him in a little prologue
• There aren’t personifications.
• There aren’t references to Greek mythology .
• There aren’t supernatural events like transformations.
• There aren’t wonderful creatures.
• There are Christian elements.
• In the tales is reflected the contemporary Italian society
• The Decameron is complete
• The personages’ names often are refereed to their work or to a particular character of their personality
• The total narration occupies the time of ten days.
• The characters speak all in the same way although they are member of different social class.
• At the end there is a prize for the best story: this prize consist in the decision of the following theme.

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  1. miriam

    canterbury tales