Good and Evil in Dante’s Divine Comedy and Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath

In every imagination, good and evil are different. For some people, evil is the most terrible sin including terrible acts such as murder, rape, distortion, betrayal. For others, evil may be a matter of hesitation, waste or vanity. Goodness can be defined as an ordinary person who lives a free life, but other people may think that true kindness can only be obtained through a perfect and glorious way of life, so that kindness is also ambiguous for humans Is to abandon secular efforts.

His explanation on the historical significance of Dante's "Divine Comedy", his explanation about Hell, Purgatory, Paradise is one of the wonderful poems of the world, a perfect fusion of life and art. "Comedy" is not only a wonderful poem but also a record of contemporary events, but he is an experienced person who studies human nature. The main argument I will discuss in this article is that Dante's "comedy" is a historical work. Because it covers the essence of human life at every boundary of time and place.

Geoffrey Chaucer replaced the sacred comedy with a human comedy and repeatedly questioned and challenged Dante's truth and excuses of authority. Unlike Daute, Chaucer does not want us to be lively or pray. According to the literary critic Condell, the story of Canterbury is that Joe's "an important relationship with the world he created" - he will not only condemn and support, the burden of ideology and the improved world Do not do. " However, the world that manifests himself as a vibrant, human, endless and attractive existence. "

From Dante to the magnificent pilgrimage of Joe, there is no doubt that you will be impressed by the contrast between the two. These contrasts will support the legendary possibilities of traditional ideas. All functions on Dantean's fable. His pilgrims will not appear in other worlds or wonderful monsters, but here they exist, and now readers tend to accept the real world. Nonetheless, I still think that the Canterbury feature film has a "fable stories" similar to comedy.