The author decided to include the Nun prioress in the Canterbury Tales to demonstrate that one aspect of the nun's action that demonstrated irony was her delicate sympathies. When he offers the example of her sympathies for a mouse and how kind and full of pity she was, the author is being sarcastic.
Irony is a literary device used by storytellers to contrast expectations with reality.
Irony is classified into three types:
The Canterbury Tales' main topic is social criticism. The medieval civilization was built on three pillars: nobility, church, and peasants.
Chaucer's satire addresses every aspect of medieval societal concerns, human wickedness, and the diseased heart.
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