Reading Class in Chaucer’s “The Merchant’s Tale”
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Critics have long considered January, the protagonist of Chaucer’s “The Merchant’s Tale,” as a surrogate for the Merchant-narrator himself, and the tale therefore as an ironical self-revelation of the narrator’s mercantile values and marital problems. This essay, however, argues that January is in fact a “knight,” as he is called by the narrator, and as such represents the knightly class. A careful review of historical accounts of the knightly class during Chaucer’s time reveals that January is portrayed as a typical member of the knightly class that was criticized for sloth and debauchery. “The Merchant’s Tale” can therefore be read as a satire against the declining knightly class.
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Critics have long considered January, the protagonist of Chaucer’s “The Merchant’s Tale,” as a surrogate for the Merchant-narrator himself, and the tale therefore as an ironical self-revelation of the narrator’s mercantile values and marital problems. This essay, however, argues that January is in fact a “knight,” as he is called by the narrator, and as such represents the knightly class. A careful review of historical accounts of the knightly class during Chaucer’s time reveals that January is portrayed as a typical member of the knightly class that was criticized for sloth and debauchery. “The Merchant’s Tale” can therefore be read as a satire against the declining knightly class.
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