Tuesday, October 5, 2010
The Canterbury Tales
As I was reading The Canterbury Tales I found that I could not get through it because of the spelling so I looked online and found extremely long rewritings of the stories. The rewritten story was interesting, I loved to read them but I found that I still needed spark notes to help me fully understand the story. I would recommend these to anyone because I feel like most people would enjoy these tales, if they can get through the language. The Canterbury Tales had many religious references and somewhat, in my opinion, mocked some of the people who were deeply involved in their religions almost saying that they were not what they said they were and they were hypocritical. During the time that Chaucer wrote the tales, the black death had left the Church questionable. Personally though I thought it was hard to get past the way it was written and the spelling of the time was atrocious in today's standards which had my spelling meter through the roof and was almost quite literally driving me up a wall. Overall I enjoyed the tales after I figured out what they were about.
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I totally agree with you on this. I ended up not reading when Mrs. Watson told us to, so I really screwed up on the quizes. But, I also had a really hard time trying to understand the language and just eventually looked up the translation on spark notes too. It is a great resource for students because it puts a story/play in simple words and makes the reading more enjoyable. I was able to get out of the story more than if I had tried to read the original text.
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