Chaucer: Similarities Between The Scuire And The Father

The squire and the father are extremely different. The squire is young, lusty, selfish, all about his appearance and the love he has for his lady. He is much more concerned of his social status. He attends battles with his father but doesn’t participate in them, he is more of a lover and an artist rather than someone who would participate in battles and be a courageous one. The father is the opposite of those things. Although they have a few similar qualities the father takes his duty as a knight seriously. He is a warrior, gentleman, believes in the ideals of chivalry and well mannered. He is found to be a profound man.

The Chaucer has high respect for both the Squire and his father. He finds the father as a brave soul, courageous knight and sees no negative to the kind of man that he is. When he looks at the squire he sees him as amusing and talented but everything less than a man. He feels that the squire is a failure because he is supposed to be in training to be a knight. He feels to become a man you need to find what you love and and hold onto it. If he doesn’t want to become a knight then he should not be titled as a squire and should communicate that with his father.
The language between the father and the squire is anything less than odd.
They don’t speak the same language, the squire speaks the language of art, love and the social attitudes of the people. The father speaks the story as a man, as someone who knows how the world works, how the world should be and how it needs to be. The father sees everything as good and bad while the squire sees the world by everything has a reason, good or bad it can be explained and should be
explained.

“Young people often feel that they are negatively portrayed by the media. The media gets lots of news stories out of the threat from hoodies, youth knife crime, binge drinking in city centres and ASBOs being slapped on young people.”(debatewise) The news is usually about negative things anyways, that’s why I stopped watching it because it just brings bad feelings, and no one wants to feel that way in the morning, or anytime in the day. It gets way more attention whenever it is youth getting into trouble, because there are so many people on social media nowadays. Technology has grown so much over the past few years, so nothing is going to be unheard or unseen. “3 billion people are now using the Internet, according to the United Nations agency that oversees international communications.”(google) The news can portray any kind of story the way they want it to be. There is also a lot of stereotypes about youth out there in social media, and also just out in the general public. Adults shouldn’t forget that when they were in their youth years, they did a lot of dumb things. And for whatever the reasons are, we shouldn’t automatically think youth are certain things. “ One stereotype of young people today is that they are all thieving, knife-carrying, troublemakers who waste most of their time dossing about.”(theguardian) I’ve stolen something from a store before, it has changed my reputation for good. I’m not allowed to very go into that store away, my parents and my friend’s parents don’t trust me as much anymore. Even though I haven’t stolen since then, I’m still dealing with judgement. I know, other youth have done something similar to my situation.