What is women desire?

I do not think there is an answer for this question. Today’s world in mi point of view it is a little bit crazy because freedom it is confused with the word “licentiousness”. But we have to know that there is not a correct way to live this life. Having said this I think that the woman in the tale was not the typical woman for those times, but in these times she could fit perfectly because the world in general is opening its mind in these themes. I am not saying that this is bad or good I just would say that is different. The stereotype of women in the past was a conservative one and today that has change in order to equal men and women rights. According to be just the humanity without differences among us, I totally agree with the woman in the tale. No more chauvinist and feminist thoughts, I know this is something difficult at least in Chile because people is used to live with a chauvinist life style.

Destination of the trip... Heaven!

In my point of view this poem called truth by Chaucer would be seen as two remarkable roads or truths that exist. It could be related with the good side of the world which involves God. In this world we have the bad side and the good side of everything and in this poem in some ways the author wanted to make a critical thinking of society. For example with the phrase “greed entails hate and social climbing uncertainty” he is telling us that having more material belongings such as gold of fancy clothes will make us climb socially. Anyway, I think this is a religious poem because it shows us the kind of good side of life or that idea of “Be a good human being”. Only in this way you will get the heaven, but being good is very subjective at least for me.

One thing that I really love of this poem was that it is suitable in any period of our history. The idea of having more than your neighbor was in history for example through lands possession what made you powerful, or if you were traders who had more slaves was in a higher level. In today’s world we can see this situation with money or belongings like houses, cars, computers, etc. This is what makes me think we can read this poem fifty years in the future and it would be seen in some ways as a poem of those times.

My definition of an Epic Poem...

Maybe an epic poem is the way that writers tell us not real events using heroes that are the main characters of the story. Heroes would be understood like the person who learn through the peom. This character is superpowerful and incredible but is not real so we can say that stories are fiction. At the end of the heroe's life he is better and he have learnt a los of thing leaving legacy.

Linteracture...

For me, literature is all the things we represent or express through writing and then we give them some interpretation such as history, poetry etc. When we write something is based on experiences we have lived before. We write trying to show our point of view and it is necessary to make explicit our position in order to reach more credibility (ethos). When we write we want the world know what we think about a specific theme.
For me literature is the thoughts of written works such as poetry, plays, music and also fiction (they can be also spoken), because if we write something fictional we are intrinsically applying lived experiences or thoughts we have figured out by living in a society. That is why it is important to say your position in front of the reader (ethos) to let the reader know what you think or why you think what you wrote in your work.

Concluding, Literature is completely related with interaction and constructivism, because without others’ points of view Literature would not exist. I think that something is literary when it has a legacy and transcendence in a society or in other way, it would be just words in a paper and not a literary work.


“We are all formed from what other people give us: first our parents and then other people near us. Literature opens to the infinite this possibility of interaction and thus enriches us infinitely…” page 17.