The Use Of Chaulf In The Canterbury TalesBy Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in a collection of 24 stories while on a pilgrimage to visit the relics of Saint Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. The purpose behind this pilgrimage is for the pilgrims to visit the shrine to seek forgiveness for their sins. Due to the long trip, the host made a deal with everyone to tell two stories on the way and back from Canterbury and whoever tells the best one receives a paid for meal. Each character telling their stories gives away bits of information and a visual idea of who they really are. In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer uses detail, point of view, and descriptive language to portray the Pardoner and Summoner to be worse than the Skipper.

The prologues that link the various Canterbury Tales shift effortlessly from ponderous drama to light comedy. The lamentable tale of Griselde gives way to the Host's complaint about his shrewish wife. This prologue

The manciple lives and works in London, a business agent who deals not only with his clients, an enclave of lawyers, but also with a variety of food providers on a daily basis. His is an urban lifestyle. The reeve, on the other hand, encounters a fairly fixed group of people every day. However, these lifestyle differences seem to have little effect on Chaucer’s portrayal of the similarities between the two characters.

Chaucer provides the reader with a vivid image of the Wife of Bath in his General Prologue, describing her as handsome and bold, with gap teeth, large hips, and a reddish hue to her face, remarking that she is deaf in one ear. “Her hose were of the finest scarlet red / And gartered tight; her shoes were soft and new” (15). This description not only provides a clear image of the Wife but also signifies her personality. Gap teeth, at the time, were considered attractive. Her large hips and her attempt to hide them represent her age and her attempt to conceal it. Declared by critic Edward Wagenknecht, “The Wife finds growing old a tragedy” (par 1). Additionally, the color red signifies her connection with

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

being, he begins to poke fun at him. He insists that the Knight was “a

In the debate, a number of different options have emerged. Some, like medieval author Paul Ruggiers, argue that it is impossible to determine the Prioress?s attitude and that, ?we must be satisfied with ambiguity.? Others like writer Victoria Wickham argue the most popular belief, that the Prioress?s bigotry is without question and readers should be more concerned about the degree rather than the fact itself. But there is another possibility. Edwards and Spector, two prominent medieval scholars, put aside the issue of racism temporarily and instead offer an alternative interpretation on the very nature of Chaucer?s love-hate contradiction in the Prioress?s tale. They argue that the love vs. hate contradiction is not dependent on outside forces, but is actually an internal conflict within the Prioress herself. Consequently, the individuals and subsequent groups in her tale are not specific characters but culturally influenced manifestations representing separate issues. In this way her personality becomes the allegory of her tale, making specific references within her story irrelevant to her true attitude.

In “The General Prologue” Chaucer describes a pilgrim who is a perfect scholar, “he looked hollow and when soberly./ Right threadbare was his overcoat; .../ For he would rather have at his bed’s

Geoffrey Chaucer is considered to be the father of English literature. He wrote The Canterbury Tales which was a group of stories about people on a pilgrimage to Canterbury in England. Characters are introduced by their rank and each of them tells 2 tales on the journey. The Host, Harry Bailey, judges the stories and whoever told the best one received dinner. In each tale, Chaucer describes what life was like in Medieval England, and The Summoner’s Tale clearly portrays that.

After carefully reading Chaucer’s tale, Sir Thopas, I was able to carefully identity the queer theory. Sir Thopas himself is defined as feminine while Harry Bailey, on the other hand, is quite the opposite. Bailey, in my opinion, seems to address homophobia at the end of the tale. Chaucer, in his pilgrim Chaucer’s, Tale of Sir Thopas, uses homophobia, homosexual, and feminism to demonstrate the traits that each character holds.

       The characters introduced in the General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales each represent a stereotype of a kind of person that Chaucer would have been familiar with in 14th Century England. Each character is unique, yet embodies many physical and behavioral traits that would have been common for someone in their profession. In preparing the reader for the tales, Chaucer first sets the mood by providing an overall idea of the type of character who is telling the tale, then allows that character to introduce themselves through a personal prologue and finally, the pilgrim tells their tale. Through providing the reader with insight about the physical and personal traits of

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.

The Medieval period of The Canterbury Tales is held on April 11, 1387. The writing style of tales are literary skilled. “There is clear evidence in them that Chaucer was familiar with a considerable number of the great book of his time, and it is fairly well established that his writings show a steady increase in his literary skill” (Chaucer xxxvii). Chaucer is a writer of surprise. His stories not only come from plots of other writers but also from his lifetime. “There is of course no explaining where or how Chaucer acquired his ability as a great storyteller. However, the fact that he was a man of affairs as well as a man of books, a civil servant who dealt frequently with people from all walks of life, seem to have had great

Beginning with personal appearance, Chaucer uses descriptive imagery to reveal his dismissive feelings towards the Miller. The passage opens with describing Chaucer as a brute and “chap of sixteen stone” (561), which is equivalent to 224 pounds. To further the description of the Miller’s size, Chaucer then describes him as “a great stout fellow big in brawn and bone” (562). Both the weight and size descriptions merge to indicate that Chaucer views this man as large and muscular. However, an illustration of a “broad, knotty, and short-shouldered” (565) man alone would not epitomize Chaucer’s feelings towards the Miller. When combined with the Miller’s actions as a dominant man, it becomes evident that Chaucer is not fond of the brute. Specifically, Chaucer elaborates on the Miller’s strong stature by saying he can win

Canterbury Tales is a story about a group of thirty people, including the Host, that are traveling to the shrine of the martyr St. Thomas a Becket in Canterbury. The diverse group is a concoction of contradicting personalities that are intricately described by Chaucer. Among these twenty-nine excursionists are two women. One of them is the coquettish Prioress while the other one is the partially deaf Wife at Bath. Although both women possess discernable similarities, both possess divergent personalities and experiences.