Question

4. (a) Analyze how an author’s choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text contribute to its overall structure and meaning. Chaucer chooses to end the Prologue with the Host’s proposal and the pilgrims’ acceptance of it. How does this ending contribute to the overall structure of The Canterbury Tales?

Answer 1

The end of the prologue contributes to the general structure of "The Canterbury Tales" because it allows the formation of the group of pilgrims who will tell the stories that will form the book.

What is textual structure?

• It is the way a text is organized.
• It is the order in which textual information is presented to the reader.

In "The Canterbury Tales" we can see that the general structure is formed by the stories that each pilgrim tells. This structure is created at the end of the prologue.

This is because the prologue allows the creation of the group of pilgrims, who were dispersed and did not represent a group unit.

At the end of the prologue, when the narrator proposes that the pilgrims receive him as a host and when the pilgrims agree to this, a group is formed.

In this case, the interaction between pilgrims becomes easier and allows them to tell stories to each other, as they can hear the stories told and learn from them.

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