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... The Sailor’s Prologue and Tale is part of the Canterbury Tales and was, thus, preserved along with the rest of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Chaucer’s form of satire is unique because it finds examples of corruption at all levels of society, males and females. ... Chaucer allows the reader to draw his or her own opinion from the context of the writing. Lastly, Chaucer’s elegant style of poetry is enough in itself to preserve the work. ... The Sailor’s Prologue, like the Wife of Bath’s Tale, focuses on the male-female or husband-wife relationship. ... Throughout most of the tale a third person narrator tells the story. However, there are parts where the tale briefly switches into the first person. ... The first twenty lines of the Sailor’s Tale foreshadow what is going to happen throughout the rest of the tale. The tale first introduces a rich and wise merchant and his beautiful, sociable wife. ... He is described as rich and wise at the opening of the tale. ... In the opening of the tale she is described as sociable and gay, which I took to mean that she was a flirt. ... One of the tale’s images is given in lines 50 and 51. ... I don’t know what happened to Ganelon of France, but I am positive that this painted a good picture to the people of Chaucer’s time reading this.
Approximate Word count = 1093
Approximate Pages = 4.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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