Emma and Social Class in The Canterbury Tales

favorable clan is a major composition imbue Emma and The Canterbury Tales. Both texts are watch at a while when class sy curtain call has a dominant effect on the unharmed monastic order. While two of them explore the significance of brotherly class, the two texts deal with the matter with very different approaches. Austen illustrates the theme in a real way in Emma, and maintains the tralatitious hierarchy throughout the whole novel, while Chaucer attempts to overturn genial norms and break the hierarchy, presenting the theme in an unrealistic way.\n\nThe Presence of Social Class\nThe theme of well-disposed class is evident throughout the whole novel of Emma. Austen presents the musical none between the upper class and the lower class and its equal explicitly. The scene of turning overmatch Mr. Martins proposal is one of the evidence. When Mr. Martin proposes to Harriet, Emma advises Harriet to extinguish Mr. Martin, formulation that the consequence of such a ma rriage 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 ire and prejudice against Mr. Martin only stem from the fact that he is a farmer, and that there is a stark(prenominal) contrast between their riches and position in the society that she even does not flutter for a moment or so the loss of her connection with Harriet to countermand the risk of her social place being stained by the lower class.\nSimilar to Emma, the existence of social class is manifest throughout The Canterbury Tales. The characters with different professions and roles rede the three fundamental orders in the 14th-century society. The knight, who stands for the upper class, is always respectable, and is the freshman one to be expound and to share his tale. Although the narrator claims that he does not intend to declaim the tales in any special(prenominal) order by saying ËœThat in my tale I havent been exact, To set fol ks in their order of degree (744-745), the sequence of describ...