Emma and Social Class in The Canterbury Tales

sociable category is a major motion permeant Emma and The Canterbury Tales. Both texts are correct at a while when class sy melodic theme has a dominant effect on the substantial auberge. While both of them explore the significance of neighborly class, the two texts deal with the domain with very different approaches. Austen illustrates the theme in a possible way in Emma, and maintains the conventional hierarchy throughout the whole novel, while Chaucer attempts to overturn sociable norms and break the hierarchy, presenting the theme in an unrealistic way.\n\nThe Presence of Social Class\nThe theme of social class is evident throughout the whole novel of Emma. Austen presents the greenback between the upper class and the lower class and its violation explicitly. The scene of turning follow out Mr. Martins proposal is one of the evidence. When Mr. Martin proposes to Harriet, Emma advises Harriet to close out Mr. Martin, precept that the consequence of such a marriag e would be Ëœthe loss of a friend because she Ëœcould not have visited Mrs. Robert Martin, of Abbey-Mill Farm (43; 1: ch. 7). Her wrath and prejudice against Mr. Martin only stem from the fact that he is a farmer, and that there is a marginal contrast between their wealthiness and position in the society that she even does not flutter for a moment nearly the loss of her connection with Harriet to negate the risk of her social emplacement being stained by the lower class.\nSimilar to Emma, the being of social class is glary throughout The Canterbury Tales. The characters with different professions and roles construe the three fundamental orders in the 14th-century society. The knight, who stands for the upper class, is always respectable, and is the first off one to be exposit and to share his tale. Although the narrator claims that he does not intend to separate the tales in any peculiar(a) order by saying ËœThat in my tale I havent been exact, To set folks in their or der of degree (744-745), the sequence of describ...