King Arthur and Canterbury tales

We are reading Arthurian myths in English. I like them a lot primarily because they've never really ended. Even today, you can find new versions of them all over the place.

BBC recently had a version that I particularly enjoyed, although it wasn't exactly accurate.

Even in music, it shows up. The song "Mordred's Lullaby" by Heather Dale was surprisingly accurate, though it was told primarily from the perspective of Morgan Le Fay.

The Canterbury Tales was written by Chaucer. The one thing I find most impressive is that all of the characters seem like they could actually exists. They aren't characters you would forget.

What I found equally fascinating is how a lot of themes were developed, especially how marriage was a motif. The concept of lies and deceit came up a lot, in almost every story, simply because they were telling stories. Every story, whether fiction or non-fiction, is a lie of some sort. Non-fiction is still filtered through the consciousness and prejudices of t he person telling it, leading to a form of self-deception.

There is a character in the Canterbury Tales called Chaucer, and at times I wonder if he was included as a joke.

The character and author are vastly different people. The character is accused of being sullen and silent, a far cry from the author. He is also the narrator, writing it all from memory. No one seems to want to hear the character's story, even though people from all over read the author's story during high school. It seems like the author is poking fun at his own points, by showing such a blatant example of misrepresenting himself in a story that has multiple layers. Not only are the characters all misrepresented by themselves, they are misrepresented even more by the narrator, who is himself a misrepresentation of the author.

I'm not sure if anything I just typed makes sense, but if it does, or doesn't, please let me know in the comments.