Canterbury Tales Transmedia Final Essay

Geoffrey Chaucer, the author of the Canterbury Tales, writes about the tales of others with different tones and syntax in order to reveal the irony that extends throughout the story and shows the bad or negative side of society. Through the actions of the characters individually and as a whole,Chaucer can both question and honor the literary and social traditions. By using different stories and social statuses, Chaucer shows how unity can be found in unusual circumstances. 

This picture resembles all of the different personalities and social statuses coming together into one. In a puzzle there are hundreds, sometimes thousands, of puzzle pieces that come together to make one picture. Chaucer uses the same idea to show how even totally different people can be connected in some way. In the Canterbury Tales, all of the characters are very different, but all there for the purpose of paying respects. 
This video represents the excessive amount of irony used throughout this story, specifically as a literary technique. Chaucer uses irony to reveal the message. He uses irony when discussing the group as a whole, but also throughout each individual story. One example of irony is in the Cook's Tale, he is kicked out of his apprenticeship and ruins his reputation, but still does not care and continues with his bad decisions. 

This picture reveals the irony in the story as an overall message of the story. All of these people are essentially the same, but the contrast between light and dark show the differences between them. This is shown in the Canterbury Tales when the entire group of people are going to pay their respects to the dead, but they are in it for winning the competition. The irony reveals that all humans have flaws and are the same in never being perfect. Chaucer shows this by first separating the group entirely by class and appearance, but brings them together through the journey. 

This picture resembles how Chaucer used each character to represent the different levels of society, yet they were all together doing the same thing, accomplishing the same thing. Chaucer does this by using different point of views. One story may be told through the red people's point of view or the blue people's point of view, yet it is the same topic. The group is only doing better and making more understanding by using all of the point of views together.  
These two videos show characterization in a way that every one can understand. This is similar to how Chaucer uses both direct and indirect characterization. Chaucer uses this technique to show the different sides of people and to develop a character more profoundly. By doing this Chaucer can reveal the similarities within the mass of different people. 

This picture shows how Chaucer reveals the negative side of humanity and how humanity is connected through their flaws and mistakes. Chaucer focused on the negative aspects rather than the positive aspects because it is easier to find flaws in people than it is to find positive things. The trees unite in the picture in the dark side and as the light becomes more noticeable, the trees start to separate, yet they all lie within the same field. 

This pictures shows the unity that Chaucer hoped to achieve. His purpose was to show all the differences and bring them together by the end. The story overall resembled unity in that they all came together to accomplish the same thing. The point being no matter how different and/or rich or poor people are they can all come together in order to be bigger and better, but also can unite through the flaws that each person has.