The Canterbury Tales
How do the stories of ordinary people with various desires and hypocrisies become a mirror of the times?
📝ONGO's Reflection
Open this book, where medieval English pilgrims gather to pour out their tales, and you fall into the illusion of sitting in a boisterous old inn. People of every station, from knight to cleric to miller, lay bare their snobbery, desire, and humor without restraint. Chaucer does not pass moral judgment on them but weaves them together with satire both warm and sharp. I wonder if there is any other classic that portrays human nature, hidden behind masks of feigned refinement, so vividly and so delightfully.
"For out of old fields, as men say, Comes all this new corn from year to year."Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
"사람들이 말하듯, 오래된 들판에서 매년 새로운 곡식이 자라나는 법이다."
🌱Apply It Today
When you hear the story of someone whose values are completely different from yours, set aside your prejudices and yardsticks and try instead to understand the human desires and life path hidden beneath the surface.
