Modern Genre

Today people read stories of teenage vampires falling in love, witches and wizards battling evil, and a dystopian/post-apocalyptic world with a fight to the death. What do all three genres have in common? They are all fantasy or adventure, in other words, something that people read in order to escape from their monotonous, boring lives of the real world. If Chaucer were writing today, he would definitely include the genres: thriller, adventure, fantasy and sci-fi. Romance is another genre involved in almost all genres today, because you can't have a good story without a little love and heartbreak. Chaucer would include all of the genres in order to create an outrageous story, that still conveys his theme.