Question

Discuss how Dioneo’s tone impacts the reader’s perception of his credibility. Use evidence from the text to explain and support your response

Answer 1

Answer:

During Boccaccio's story, he employs a voice narrator called Dioneo. Dioneo is used to represent Boccaccios ideas and thoughts during the story. This impacts the reader's perception because we now get to see what Boccaccio is thinking throughout the story, we get to see how he interacts with his characters and how he treats or sees them. During the story, Boccaccio uses Dioneo to express his ideas on feminity and masculinity. In the introduction I, we see Dioneo is kinda a partier, he doesn't want anyone to ruin his fun and he shows this with much charm. Dioneo wants the other characters to leave everything they had behind so that he can enjoy his time outside Florence. Dioneo essentially is setting himself up to be the leader of the pose. He will be able to control their moods and what they do. This tells the reader that Boccacio is in control, Boccaccio is going to control the other characters thoughts and feelings so that he can enjoy his time as a narrator and character. We see this in the story when at the end of the day Dioneo goes last, this is a setup. Dioneo is purposely going to make sure that he goes last so that he can control the room and emotions that the other characters have through the story. Overall, Boccaccio is using Dioneo to control the story and his characters in a unique way that tells the reader that Dioneos creditability is bad while Baccaccios credibility is good throughout the story.

Explanation:

This awnser was influenced heavily by Johns answer. I basically rewrite his answer in my own way and tried to add details that I thought were prominent during the story. I will accept critisism I only wanted to try and improve Johns answer. Tell me if anything is wrong in my answer or that isn't true. Thanks.

Answer 2

Boccaccio employs the voice of his narrator Dioneo to represent his ideas on the tension between masculinity and femininity. While Dioneo excites the members of the brigata and recognizes women for their unique skills and independent ideas, he concludes the Decameron with a story reminiscent of the society from which these young aristocrats escaped, revealing misogynistic overtones. Dioneo Boccaccio is able to explore the gender disparity which is inherent in 14th century Florentine society.