The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Chaucer has created many characters in the Canterbury tales that he likes and many he dislikes. He is a very critical and detailed writer about these characters. With these characters, Chaucer has created real life issues with religious figures. Chaucer’s has showed how good religious figures can be and how corrupt they can be as well.

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer consists of frame narratives were a group of pilgrims that are traveling from Southwark to the shire of St. Becker in the Canterbury Cathedral, tell each other to pass time until they arrive at their destination. During The Canterbury Tales the reader is exposed to many characters that represent all of the social classes of medieval England and the reader gets to know them from the general prologue to each individual tale. One of these characters is the Pardoner, when the Pardoners is introduced he is described as the stereotypical pardoner of the Fourteen Century. The pardoner is describe as a crafty and a corrupt individual that will do anything to sell his pardons and relics. Nevertheless one of the most important characteristics that the Pardoner exhibits is his frankness about his own hypocrisy and sins. The pardoner accuses himself of fraud, avarice, and gluttony (the very things that he preaches against). During the Pardoners prologue, but most noticeable during his tale, the pardoners preach about how “Greed is the root of all evil”, and how our sins can lead cause our dismay.

Immorality and moral ambiguity are two concepts that will ruin any relationship. In Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, he specifically illustrates through his pilgrims’ stories some comical and realistic events that display immorality in the Middle Ages. There are several characters whose stories are focused on presenting the immorality within their tales. Like that of “The Miller’s Tale,” and “The Merchant’s Tale.” Chaucer utilizes these tales to display one specific immoral act, which is sexual sin or lust. Chaucer addresses the seven deadly sins in his novel; The Canterbury Tales, lust can be highlighted in two major tales “The Miller’s Tale,” and “The Merchant’s Tale” which help display key elements of the immorality in the

Unlike many sins which can be concealed within the text such as the pride of the Knight, Lust cannot be concealed and is very present when reading through the description of any of the characters exhibiting the sin. For example, within the Friars passage, Chaucer states that this Friar had “arranged full many a marriage Of women young, and this at his own cost” (Lines 212-213). Obviously no effort has been done into concealing this sin at all, perhaps this is because Chaucer simply doesn’t view this sin as being terrible, and simply as being a part of life. He is further stated as being with “all the worthy women of the town”, showing that he is not the only one partaking in this sin, but all those around him who are with

The story The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is about a set of pilgrims traveling to a town called Canterbury. To entertain one another along their journey, each of them tells four total stories: two on their way to Canterbury and two on their trip back home. Of all of the pilgrims making this journey, many of them represent some bad qualities.

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer can be understood as a text that criticizes glossing and those who gloss. In this case, glossing a text is the comments, explanations, and interpretations one infers from reading the piece of literature and the understanding that can be taken away from it; this is different for every individual who reads the written word. I believe Chaucer wrote some of these tales as a critique of certain figures in his society. The question one should ask when reading, or being read to, is what is the meaning behind the text and where does the meaning lie. When, directly, reading a text one can determine the meaning of the author through one’s own interpretation. When one is being read to, they are being given the information in a biased form; this prevents one from being able to interpret the text for oneself and leads to the audience being glossed, as well as the text, and Chaucer criticizes the crowd’s contentedness to be glossed at and to.

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is a story of a contest who can tell the best tale. The rules of the contest were as follows: Each pilgrim would tell four tales for the trip to Canterbury, two on the journey there and two on the way back.. The tales will be judged by the Host for it’s entertainment and moral lessons. The winner of the contest will enjoy a meal paid for by the remaining pilgrims at the Host's Inn. “The Miller’s Tale” had fulfilled the criteria to win the contest. It was a shorter story, but it was entertaining and had a few lessons that can be learned from hearing or reading it. This story is significant because it does a great job of pointing out of some of the problems in the church during that time as well as how the morals of some people were not strong as well.

Written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the fourteenth century, The Canterbury Tales is a poetic masterpiece. This work is rather unique because of its format and use of satire. The story is a framed narrative, a story within a story. The outer frame is a pilgrimage to the shine of Saint Thomas Becket, the martyred Archbishop of Canterbury. This journey is made by thirty pilgrims, including Chaucer the Pilgrim, who vary in social standing, ranging from aristocrat to peasant but excluding royalty and serfs. Chaucer often utilizes satire to draw attention to how well or how poorly suited a pilgrim is to his or her social status. The pilgrims gather at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, England, outside London. Harry Bailly, the owner of the Inn, proposes a story-telling contest among the pilgrims to keep them entertained along the pilgrimage. He offers to accompany the pilgrims at his own expense in order to judge the contest. The plan is for each of the thirty pilgrims to tell four tales, two on the ay to the shrine and two on the journey home. The individual tales comprise the inner frame. Of the proposed 120 tales, the story that is considered most entertaining and most moral will be selected as the winner. The teller of that story will receive a dinner at the Inn upon his or her return at the expense of the other pilgrims. Despite the planned 120 tales, only twenty-two full tales and two fragments exist. One completed tale, told by the Wife of Bath, epitomizes Chaucer’s uncanny ability to match each tale to its teller.

The Canterbury Tales, an anthology or collection of short stories was written by Geoffrey Chaucer, as he participated in the pilgrimage to Canterbury with 29 other pilgrims by his side. During their travels, each of them are responsible for telling four tales; and the pilgrim which tells the best tale will receive dinner by the group. As four stories are to be told by each of the pilgrims, each tale differs significantly as well as the themes of each. “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” and “The Knight’s Tale” do share common characteristics, by building off of the ideas of the Knight’s Code of Chivalry. Whether humorous or representing the gravity of a person’s decision, Knight’s Code of Chivalry and Art of Courtly Love can be discovered in the two

Chaucer used the “Wife of Bath’s” tale to explain the flaws in marriage, and many problems for women. The wife of bath was someone people could connect with and was considered, “An outspoken champion of her sex against the traditional antifeminism of the church, initiates a series of tales about sex, marriage, and nobility” (“Chaucer, Geoffrey,” par.10). Stating how the wife of bath was the character that Chaucer used to influence multiple things, including marriage. In the “Canterbury Tales” there are multiple cases of love, including cases in which seduction is involved. One person summed up these events as, “After the Knight’s courtly and philosophical romance about noble love, the Miller interrupts with a deliciously bawdy story of seduction aimed at the Reeve; the Reeve takes revenge with a tale about the seduction of a miller’s wife and daughter.”

Today's characters are much different than the characters in chaucer’s story The Canterbury Tales. Each adds something different to the journey but, what would it be like if there were more modern characters. They would still be important to the story but they would just have a little bit of a twist. How they dress and talk would be a big part of the story like it already is. The three characters that would add more to the pilgrimage would be Justin Bieber, Collin Kapernick, and Forrest Gump.

In Chaucer’s famous novel: The Canterbury Tales, he describes many characters in a satirical way, while others he describes with complete admiration. The narrator (a constructed version of Chaucer himself) is staying at the Tabard Inn in London, when a large group of about twenty-nine people enter the inn, preparing to go on a pilgrimage to Canterbury. After the narrator talks to them, he agrees to join them on their pilgrimage. Although, before the narrator progresses any further in the tale, he describes the circumstances and the social rank of each pilgrim. There are two characters in these tales of the same social class, but Chaucer’s opinion on them vary greatly. These two characters are the beloved Parson, and the loathed Pardoner.

Literature is often times used by scholars as a window into the past. From describing cultural norms to affirming historical events, writing can be used for a variety of reasons. The Miller’s Tale, a story from the internationally renown The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, provides its audience with insight into the workings and views of society in 14th century England. The tale follows the mischief of a carpenter’s wife and her lovers who attempt to gain her affection. The wife, Alisoun, commits acts of adultery which drive the story to its climax, resulting in the majority of the characters, including Alisoun herself, being made fools out of themselves. The array of characters – Absolon, Alisoun, Nicholas, and John – represent four varying classes of society: the clergy, the women, the scholars, and the lower class, respectively. Chaucer’s characterization of these characters reflects their placements in the social hierarchy, providing insight into the social order and beliefs in England during the 1300s.

The Canterbury Tales was written by Geoffrey Chaucer in 1392, during the medieval period in Europe. Three important aspects, his family’s ties to the court, his schooling and working for royalty (XI), and his love for reading and learning (XII) all combined and enabled him to create his greatest work, The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer includes many different characters, pilgrims, all from very unique walks of life. Although there are not as many women included as men, their stories give some extraordinary insights on Chaucer’s views on the roles of men and women in medieval times. Christianity is the most common characteristic discussed, and clearly very important to Chaucer. The Prologue gives the reader a general over-view of each of the characters; he separates each character by his or her social class, religious life, and morality. The Prioress and The Wife of Bath tales further reveal his opinions on women 's roles and position in society. Chaucer makes it clear that men and women have very different roles and expectations; but they all either serve themselves, or others; and this is the trait that Chaucer uses to characterize a morally “good” or “bad” character, his characterization is not stipulated by social class or sex.

In the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer gives a detailed description of what life was like in Medieval times . In the “Prologue”, the reader comes to better understand the people of the time period through the characters words and actions. Chaucer uses a variety of groups of society to give the reader a deeper insight into the fourteenth century Pilgrims customs and values. Through the Court, Common people and the Church, Gregory Chaucer gives a detailed description of ordinary life in the medieval times.