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This 4 page paper compares and contrasts the characters of Dante's Inferno to those of Chaucer's. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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same themes. This may very well be true when one begins to compare Geoffrey Chaucers Canterbury Tales and its characters to those represented in the work of Dante Alighieri. Canterbury
Tales is a satirical look at the various types of people and personalities which existed during the time of Chaucer, and ironically enough, still exist today. His Wife of Bath,
The Pardoner, and the Miller can be seen to share some commonalities with those who are chronicles in the various rings or circles of hell as Dante describes them. Each
are not as they seem on this journey. Each is a deviant from the norm. Each are determined to continue on in their course of action, according no wrong doing
or wrong thinking to their behaviors. At the very beginning of the Prologue to the Tale, Chaucer warns the reader that the tale is about to be a bawdy one
as the Miller is completely drunk and loud. In fact, he tells his tale out of turn, but because he is being so loud, the rest of the travelers agree
to let him have his say. In Dantes Inferno, the avarice of drunkenness occurs on the eighth circle of hell. It is here, in Canto 23, that those souls who
have been a part of hypocritical ways will be confined. Likewise, the idea and notion of lust is a level of hell where those who have given in to it
are condemned to Circle two. However, those who are especially given to seduction are accorded a lower level of hell, level eight. The Miller, then, tells the tale of
an old carpenter who is married to a very young and beautiful wife. When a student takes a room in their home, he and the young wife fall in love.
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