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Literary Beasts: Use Of Animal Imagery In The Canterbury Tales, Morgan Kentsbeer
Literary Beasts: Use Of Animal Imagery In The Canterbury Tales, Morgan Kentsbeer
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Through this paper I am going to argue that animals from the Middle Ages held more worth and were often considered to be more important than their modern counterparts. This gets shown through the three types of ways that animals are used within The Canterbury Tales. First, they are used as allegorical shorthands that imply more meaning with a fewer amount of words; this concept is primarily shown in “The Miller’s Tale” and “The Wife of Bath’s Tale.” Secondly, animals are crafted into characters but still end up being used as tools by other characters or Chaucer himself. For this, …