Ideally, a religion, in order to be respected and followed by the people, must maintain a clean image -- that is, an image that reflects the truth of its teachings, wherein its religious principles are embodied by the people who make up the Church.
It is also through "Canterbury" that Chaucer was able to portray the theme of idealism as mirrored in the lives of the people of his times. With the pilgrims representing people from all walks of life in 15th century English society, "Canterbury" acts as a mouthpiece to every member of Chaucer's society, giving the readers a look into the kind of society that existed during that period. Thus, each tale narrated in "Canterbury," like the Pardoner's tale, was Chaucer's way of putting reality (i.e., each tale) against the ideals of what a learned and religious society should be like -- that is, by portraying what a society should not be when governed -- economically, socially, and politically -- by a religious institution like the Church.
While Chaucer's method of illustrating the theme of idealism is through social criticism and mirroring the realities in English society during his time, Shakespeare demonstrated the theme through Romanticism, and adhering to the purest sense of expressing idealism. In his illustration of feelings of love and of love itself, Shakespeare used effective imagery in showing how love can remain pure and untainted, mainly by showing romantic imagery and expressing his thoughts on what love and loving should be.
The most famous among Shakespeare's sonnets, Sonnet 18 is an example of an individual's pure expression of love for a woman. In this sonnet, Shakespeare used nature as the agent of his imagery, centering primarily...
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