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A Study on Pity in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Legend of Good Women
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Geoffrey Chaucer’s longest dream-vision poem, the Legend of Good Women features pity from multiple angles, including pity that women characters show their male lovers, the narrator’s pity towards the women, and the divine Alceste’s pity for the narrator. This paper investigates the ways in which Chaucer deploys the double rhetoric of pity through the narrator. To prove that he can take pity on women, and to evoke the reader’s pity, the narrator presents a group of innocent women whose kindness and love is betrayed by men. However, as he reiterates the pattern of good women deceived by bad men, he finds himself expressing boredom, impatience, and disappointment towards his characters and legends. This paper argues that the narrator acts like an Aristotelian rhetorician, using emotions to persuade the audience, and that such an inconsistent attitude undermines the narrator’s initial claims regarding pity.
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Geoffrey Chaucer’s longest dream-vision poem, the Legend of Good Women features pity from multiple angles, including pity that women characters show their male lovers, the narrator’s pity towards the women, and the divine Alceste’s pity for the narrator. This paper investigates the ways in which Chaucer deploys the double rhetoric of pity through the narrator. To prove that he can take pity on women, and to evoke the reader’s pity, the narrator presents a group of innocent women whose kindness and love is betrayed by men. However, as he reiterates the pattern of good women deceived by bad men, he finds himself expressing boredom, impatience, and disappointment towards his characters and legends. This paper argues that the narrator acts like an Aristotelian rhetorician, using emotions to persuade the audience, and that such an inconsistent attitude undermines the narrator’s initial claims regarding pity.
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