Britain Dining Hall is a quiet, calm setting on the edge of Georgia Tech’s campus where you can meet los of new people much like the tavern in the Canterbury Tales. Chaucer describes the tavern as a place where people could meet new people. The dining hall is a place where people from all over campus come together to eat. This is one of the easiest places to meet new people on campus. Britain Dining Hall also has other similarities to the tavern in the Canterbury Tales. Besides being on the edge of campus and being a place where you can meet new people, it also serves food and has the same interior and exterior design feeling that one would expect from a tavern that is more out of the way. It has very high ceilings, chandeliers, and ornate windows that feel like a medieval tavern. The General Prologue talks about how the tavern also very big rooms like the main dining room in Britain. There are some differences though. The tavern in the story also has rooms for its guests to stay the night in. Britain does have other rooms for events, but it does not have rooms for people to stay overnight. Besides just talking about the lodgings of the pilgrims, the General Prologue talks about the path the pilgrims would take the next day.
In the Canterbury Tales, the pilgrims that met in the tavern that night all were planning on leaving the following morning to continue their trip towards the holy site in Canterbury. This relates to every Georgia Tech student’s trip to class every day. Every morning, each Tech student embarks on their pilgrimage to the holy site of the classroom. Students usually get together and walk with each other on their way to class and it is completely possible that during this pilgrimage, students could tell each other of stories of what happened during their day or interesting stories they have heard. This is very similar to the theme of the Canterbury Tales where each of the pilgrims tries to tell the best story during the trip. The pictures all relate to the details in the story. In the story, the pilgrims all meet at the tavern at some time after sunset and all the pictures that were taken show the path the Tech students plan to take in the following morning. The pictures also can relate to the beginning of the General Prologue when Chaucer describes how the pilgrims are traveling through nature. The trees in the pictures symbolize this nature and the beauty of Tech’s campus just like Chaucer’s description of the route to Canterbury.
The audio track also fits in with the new setting of the Canterbury Tales. The song talks about running away, which would symbolize the traveling done by the Tech students as they go to class. Overall, I felt that this song would best compliment the pictures taken that show the traveling. So now, please enjoy my short recreation of a modern Canterbury Tales.
Hoobastank. "Running Away." Hoobastank. Island Records, 2002. CD.
Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics). New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2007. Print.
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