Chaucer's narrative technique

Apparently he seems to bring facts in a disordered and natural way, but then we discover that the details add up to an amused, ironical or satirical picture. He uses: • HUMOUR to describe good qualities and human weaknesses, • IRONY to make the reader aware of the faults and defects he doesn’t approve of, • SATIRE to attack vices and corruption openly. So he keeps a realistic and secular point of view, but he endows his narrative also with moral implications. Only the Knight, the Poor Parson and the Plowman are treated without any touch of irony at all, almost as ideal figures, nostalgic portraits, nearly anachronisms by his time, a time of change and even confusion. While, for example, he attacked the corruption in The Church through the Monk, the Friar and the Summoner, amusing characters, but the latter two are petty blackguards, while the Pardoner implies a whole world of moral hypocrisy.