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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of the Canterbury Tales. The figure of Chaucer's merchant is analyzed for archetypal analogues. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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sits "hye on horse" and is dressed in an array of fashions that betoken his vast wealth and up to the minute fashion sense (Chaucer, 2012). The Merchants "forked beard"
and "motley gown" suggest that he prides himself on his appearance, and this suggestion is supported by the fact that the Merchant then begins to boast of himself, "his reasons
he spak ful solempnely, sownynge alwey th encrees of his wynnyng"; by glossing over his failures as a person and talking only of his successes, the Merchant portrays himself as
a vain individual for whom reputation is everything (Chaucer, 2012). This impression is supported yet again when the narrator reveals that despite the merchants appearance of possessing vast wealth and
a refined taste, he is actually in debt; he simply hides this fact from others so that they will regard him more favorably: "ther wiste no wight that he was
in dette, so estatly was he of his governaunce" (Chaucer, 2012). In the end, the full impression of Chaucers Merchant is as a depiction of vanity and superficiality, human traits
that, as Blake suggests, "exist in all ages". 2.) When casting Chaucers Canterbury pilgrims in their role as archetypes of classes of humanity, Blake identifies many
of the figures with the characters of Greek myth, whom also allegorically correspond to the different traits which humans might manifest. In the case of the Merchant, Blake doesnt name
a Greek analogue, but it might well be fitting to compare the Merchant with Narcissus. In the Greek myths, Narcissus is a hunter of such exceptional physical beauty that he
ultimately becomes hopelessly enamored with his own reflection, and wiles away his days at the edge of a pool, staring longingly at his reflection with a fierce obsession. Chaucers Merchant
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