English Journey by Filippo Pavan

index

Canterbury Tales

Wife of Bath

Adam Delving

Ed Sheeran

Charlie Chaplin

Black Death

Magna Carta

Stereotypes

Canterbury Tales 

The Canterbury Tales  is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.

The Canterbury Tales is generally thought to have been incomplete at the end of Chaucer’s life.

The Canterbury Tales is built around a frame narrative.

Most story collections focused on a theme, usually a religious one.

The variety of Chaucer’s tales shows the breadth of his skill and his familiarity with many literary forms, linguistic styles, and rhetorical devices.

Personal Opinion

I liked this collection because it was immersive and exciting

due to the historical context and the genre.

The Wife of Bath

The Wife of Bath’s Tale is among the best known of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.

It provides insight into the role of women in the Late Middle Ages and was probably of interest to Chaucer himself, for the character is one of his most developed ones, with her Prologue twice as long as her Tale.

While sexuality is a dominant theme in The Wife of Bath’s Prologue, it is less obvious that her sexual behaviour can be associated with Lollardy.

Personal Opinion

It was intresting for me because of it’s dynamics, but I didn’t like for the content and what they try to tell.

Adam Delving 

 The stained glass window was created around 1176 and still glows with vivid colour and moving humanity. Adam is an ideal portrayal of a medieval peasant. He works the land, bare-chested. His spade digs deep. A tree grows, grey against the blue sky. Work is the curse of Adam, the fate of humanity exiled from Eden. When the sun catches its colours, the digger shines heroically. In medieval Britain, there were three orders of people, those who pray – the Church – those who fight – the knighthood – and those who labour like Adam to bring food from the land Illustration: Canterbury Chatedral

Personal Opinion

I don’t fully understand the meaning of this stained glass,

but I find it very involving for the colors.

Ed Sheeran

Edward Christopher Sheeran born 17 February 1991, is an English singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor.

Edward was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England.

Sheeran began recording music in 2004.

Sheeran has sold more than 150 million records worldwide, making him one of the world’s best-selling music artists.

 He has 84.5 million RIAA-certified units in the US, and two of his albums are in the list of the best-selling albums in UK chart history

Personal Opinion

I liked the story of his life and for me rappresent a symbol of will power, I like his music but I rarely listen to it.

Charlie Chaplin 

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, “The TrampChaplin’s childhood in London was one of poverty and hardship, as his father was absent and his mother struggled financially, and he was sent to a workhouse twice before the age of nine. When he was 14, his mother was committed to a mental asylum. Chaplin began performing at an early age, touring music halls and later working as a stage actor and comedian. “, and is considered one of the most important figures in the history of the film industry. His career spanned more than 75 years, from childhood in the Victorian era until a year before his death in 1977, and encompassed both adulation and controversy.

Personal Opinion

Even tough he should be funny, i don’t get his humor indeed I

find it quietly boring; I don’t like this genre as well.

Black Death

The Black Death (also known as the Pestilence, the Great Mortality, or the Plague) was the deadliest pandemic recorded in human history. The Black Death resulted in the deaths of up to 75–200 million people in Eurasia and North Africa, peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351. Plague, the disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, was the cause. pestis infection most commonly results in bubonic plague, but can cause septicaemic or pneumonic plagues.

The 13th-century Mongol conquest of China caused a decline in farming and trading. Economic recovery had been observed at the beginning of the fourteenth century. In the 1330s, many natural disasters and epidemics led to widespread famine, starting in 1331, with the deadly plague pandemic arriving soon after. Other conditions, such as war, famine, and weather, contributed to the severity of the Black Death.

Personal Opinion

I found the topic very intresting because it leeds somehow to the pandemic and beacuse of it’s aggressivity to ward the victims.

Magna Carta

Magna Carta Libertatum (Medieval Latin for “Great Charter of Freedoms”), commonly called Magna Carta (also Magna Charta; “Great Charter”), is a royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.

First drafted by Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton to make peace between the unpopular king and a group of rebel barons, it promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations on feudal payments to the Crown, to be implemented through a council of 25 barons. Neither side stood behind their commitments, and the charter was annulled by Pope Innocent III, leading to the First Barons’ War.

Personal Opinion

I don’t like the mentality of the time, because the power was the real target for everyone, and the poor people were left behind.

Stereotypes

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