Chaucer's Life Experiences

Chaucer’s Life Experiences

A person’s life experience can have a great effect on his or her life. Personal experiences tend to have more of an effect on writers and storytellers than an average person. The average person will often tell and share a life experience to others. A writer, on the other hand, may make it very interesting and use it as an inspiration for one of his or her works. Take one of the greatest writers, Geoffrey Chaucer, for example. His life is known primarily through records pertaining to his career as a courtier and civil servant under the English kings Edward III and Richard II (David, Internet). Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales, because he was in adversity and under emotional stress. He began the work as an escape from the outward and inward pressures of his life. (David, Internet) Geoffrey Chaucer uses his life experiences as content for his works, “The Miller’s Tale,” “The Clerk’s Tale,” and “The Second Nun’s Tale.”
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