Criseyde True, Criseyde False: The Reconstruction of Criseyde in

• Main Authors: Shih, Eleanor Hei-wen, 施惠文
• Other Authors: Carolyn F. Scott
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1996
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/12261963601550409701

碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 英國語文學研究所 === 84 === Chaucer''s "Troilus and Criseyde" is basically a story filled with oppositions and contradiciotn. Paradoxically, Criseyde is "both" conventional and unconventional. Siminarily, the narrator in this poem also plays two opposite roles: he submits to the previous authority in translating the poem, and on the other hand, he emotionally gets involved with Criseyde. Actually, Chaucer the author has his intention to develop the tale in such opposite points of view. In depicting Criseyde with both conventional and unconventional characteristics, Chaucer the author asserts his right to transform the heroine from the conventional personage of inconstancy to the unconventional "good" woman. Accordingly, in depicting the narrator with two opposite attitudes (rational as a narrator and emotional as a lover), Chaucer the author determines that he has a right in translating to change the motif of the story from betrayal to forgiveness, and most important of all, as Chaucer uses the narrator to change the motif of the tale, he defies the authority of the previoius authors and sources.