English folk stories seem to inherit Homer's narrative style, and Canterbury Tales is the most typical one. It seems that the author himself doesn't care much about whether the story is interesting or not, but spends a lot of time on narrative skills. Most stories always bear heavy historical traces. The love between ghost knight, martyr, smuggler and black dragon is a symbol of the long middle ages. Gulliver's Travels was actually a symbol of British society at that time. . Ironically, Even the later Paradise Lost and the later The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (I thought that the prototype of the dark forces in The Lord of the Rings was actually the Mongols that Europeans said at that time) were branded with this tradition.