“Every poet comes to some idea of how language works. Chaucer's commitment, like that of the greatest literary figures, goes beyond the brilliant and skillful use of language as a tool of expression, beyond what we usually call "talent", note academics Douglas Wurtele, David Williams and Robert Myles. They eloquently express the wit and mechanics skillfully applied by Chaucer in forging a new written language. Not only does he manage to forge this language, but he uses his wits and academic knowledge to criticize and criticize the two most sacred institutions of his day. Through his skillful use of satire and irony, he finds a revolutionary way to reach the general multitude, whose language Chaucer successfully adopts. While French, Italian, and Latin were all fluent and viable options for Chaucer's choice of language. it focuses instead on the despised language that would later be known as English. His decision to write in English rather than the other “more beautiful” languages was not only an act of satire but also an effort to communicate with the general public. John Fisher states in The Importance of Chaucer that: "It is [Chaucer's] introduction of satire and realism and his experiments with philosophical and scientific prose that demonstrated the capacity of language... No other writer ranges more widely from serious to comic, from spiritual to obscene, from lyrical to narrative, from poetry to philosophy and science. When it ended, the prejudice that English was incapable of expressing any kind of feeling or conveying any kind of information did not could no longer hold.” In the general prologue, Chaucer skillfully captures the reader's attention with his satirical insults and implications towards many of the characters. "The Rule of good Saint Benet or Saint Maur as in the old days Gilbert Highet states Chaucer's satire in these tales to address the institution of marriage in his book The Anatomy of Satire: "Such is that delightful satire on marriage seen from the woman's point of view, the prologue of the Wife of Bath in the Canterbury Tales by Chaucer. In Chaucer's time, the idea that women should not and generally did not enjoy sex was widely accepted. Chaucer immediately shatters this social statement when his character, the Wife, declares: “I cannot keep the continent for years and years…A woman may be advised to be [a virgin]; In my opinion, advice is not a commandment." Chaucer secondly attacks the assumption that women are inferior to men throughout the prologue and his tale, but it is clear that the Wife knows how to manipulate her men. Her only challenge was her last husband, married for love: he willingly believed in the wickedness of women. In the physical confrontation, they argued, until he apologized, even though she was also injured. “We finally made peace together… So help me God, I was as kind to him as any wife from Denmark to the borders of India, and as sincere. And he with me,” vividly indicates that their relations were not peaceful until there was a mutualistic and equivalent understanding
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