Chaucer’s story follows pilgrims on their way to Canterbury Cathedral. The Canterbury Tales borrows most heavily from Boccaccio’s The Decameron, which also uses a frame story to relate a number of smaller tales. It is one of the longest Egyptian tales that has survived completed. Chaucer was influenced by famous Italian writers such as Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. The Eloquent Peasant (Ancient Egyptian: Sekhti-nefer-medu, 'a peasant good of speech') is an Ancient Egyptian story that was composed around 1850 BCE during the time of the Middle Kingdom in Egypt. Escalating class tensions from Chaucer’s time are evident throughout the stories within The Canterbury Tales. This, coupled with the increasing demands on the peasantry, led the artisans and peasants to revolt. The rich profited off of the war and began indulging in showy luxury items, which led to the establishment of a rich merchant oligarchy that had significant influence in London.
The Hundred Years War further contributed to class tensions. This scarcity of labor led to workers being able to better bargain for higher wages and better treatment. An estimated thirty to fifty percent of the population died, leaving the peasant working classes ravaged. The Black Death ravaged Europe throughout Chaucer’s childhood and adulthood. Not only was language unstable during Chaucer’s lifetime but so was the political and social makeup of England. The enormous popularity of this text contributed to the legitimization of the English language. When he was writing in the 1300s, English was rarely used in official contexts Latin was the language of the Church and French was the language of the court. Chaucer was one of the first writers to create popular fiction in the English vernacular. The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant, a narrative centered on the power of discourse, remarkably mentions silence in numerous and plot-significant passages, providing it with several different connotations. The Canterbury Tales is written in Middle English, a form of English that combined elements of Old English and French which was spoken from 1150 to 1470.
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