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How is Chaucer's form of satire still important today?

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Chaucer's satire is very gentle - you wouldn't really call it satire today - and the conditions and circumstances he describes are also very different. Now go away and do your own homework, please: we are not going to write your essay for you! read more

Satire is always a critique of some form of human behavior, vice, or folly, with the intent of persuading the audience to view it disdainfully and thereby encourage a degree of social change. read more

One reason Chaucer's work has stood the test of time and is still relevant today is that it illustrates an interesting cross section of people from the Middle Ages. He authentically captures the human spirit inherent in people from all walks of life from that time period. read more

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