Sunday, August 27, 2017

Blog post assignment 3

Back in the middle ages women often took care of the house work such as watching the kids,cleaning up,handling some yard work and more while their husbands were at work,but during the busiest time of the year such as harvest women would help their husbands with crops  and bring them in for the household. Also during these times women participated in vital cottage industries such as brewing,baking,and manufacturing testiles.Also the most common symbol of the peasant women was the distaff. This information refers to the middle ages and how it was for women in the medieval period.
Works cited: www.blk.UK/the-middle-ages/articles/women-in-medevial-society 

Sunday, August 20, 2017

Gefforey Chaucer summary

Chaucer was rather grandly the father of English literature and also the prime shaper of English language.Chaucer has been credited with a series of first .G.L.Kittredge identified Troilus and Criseyde as the first novel,in the modern sense. When reading Chaucer's works one is struck by sense of great variety.As on the 3rd page it gets into details about The Canterbury Tales were near the end of the Troilus and Criseyde, Chaucer associates the little tragedy with a long line of classical poets and then asks for help to write some comedie.The Canterbury Tales is thus a comedy not because of of its comic characters and humorous stories several tragic in tone structure but because its overall structure is comic.