BS English/MA English Archives - Naeem Ullah Butt

Chaucer’s Realism in The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales (BS English/MA English) Chaucer’s Realism Merriam Webster Dictionary defines realism in the following words: “Realism is the tendency to view or represent things as they really are”. Literature is the reflection of the age in which it is produced. It gives birth to its world, which always parallels the real world. It was good luck for every golden period in the history of English literature that it got some supreme literary artist shaped and moulded by the society of the image,…