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    The Canterbury Tales is an abstract showstopper in which the splendid creator Geoffrey Chaucer searched out to finish different objectives. Chaucer composed his stories amid the late 1300's. This puts him comfortable start of the decrease of the Middle Ages. Truly, we realize that a working class was simply beginning to come to fruition as of now, because of the developing business industry. Chaucer had the capacity see the significance and future achievement of the working class, and composed his

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    In The Canterbury Tales the General Prologue, Chaucer’s use of satire helps us as the reader to understand the social classes and their flaws.Chaucer uses satire to shows us the corruption, because you can't speak out about the upper class or the church, or the king will have you killed.His satire helps us to understand how corrupt the world was at the time. The characters who help us understand the social classes the most, would be the Parson and the Frier. The Parson is a man of God who helps everyone

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    In Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales prologue, the narrator apologizes. He apologizes for several reasons but while apologizing he shows the stakes of storytelling. The three stakes he shows is it’s a responsibility to the storytelling to tell the truth, the consequences that can be a backlash because of the story, and the story needs to teach the reader a lesson. The narrator and the author both have an ethnical responsibility to tell the truth. Even if the story is fiction, all of the stories and

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    Rwote about in 1386, Canterbury Tales revels the many caracteristics of midieval society. As a religious, medieval society were dependant to God, had divergent attitudes (hypocrisy and sincerity), respected mariage, accepted polygamy and gave a great value to virginity and continance. First of all, this people were dependant to God. They belived to the assistance of God for overcoming difficult situation. For exemple, Palamon could hope being “out of the prison by the God’s grace.” (Page 45) In

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    In Geoffrey Chaucer 's The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer uses the climax of The Wife of Bath 's Prologue to illustrate how through the influence of the church, the figure of the wife, was seen either as week or evil. Chaucer makes this point by using religious terms and imagery, like sister and smite, and the symbol of the lion. After establishing this point, he then shows how damaging this idea can be, by showing how hollow and disturbing the relationship between the wife and her husband becomes, when

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    In The Canterbury Tales, thirty pilgrims journeyed to Canterbury and the majority of them were men. The only two females described during the pilgrimage were the Prioress, the head of a convent, and the Wife of Bath, a dress designer. Although there appears to be vast differences between them, they are very much alike. During this time, the role of women had not evolved; in fact, most women did not have occupations outside the household. However, these women were quite modern for their time, which

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    In the story, Chaucer’s main point was that people can change to good or bad no matter where they started from. An example in the story of someone starting out bad and changing to good, would be the knight. He started out the story by riding down the river on his horse and seeing a young woman and ended up raping her (Chaucer, 30-34). Throughout the story, he changed a lot because his fate depended on it, but in the end he was really changed for the better of himself. He ended up falling in love

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    In The Canterbury Tales, there were all different kinds of people and how they lived. In the story, everyone was based off of how they were or lived. There lots of different classes that everyone fell in depending on thing like how hard you worked and how much money you had. The more money you had the higher you where in you class but if you had no money and no job you lived at the very bottom of all the classes and you were the person that got made fun of all the time because of how poor you where

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    The Canterbury Tales, morals are reexamined through each tale. Chaucer discusses moral evil and its relevance to innocence, specifically in the Pardoner’s Tale, with the three rakes, and in the Prioress Tale, with the young boy. The seducing of innocence to become dishonorable is evil. All things wicked start from innocence. Innocence is beautiful. The three rakes and the young boy illustrate the most simplest form of innocence which reserves the revelation of evil. In the Pardoner's Tale, the

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    In her Prologue as a major aspect of "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath offers perusers an unpredictable representation of a medieval lady. From one viewpoint, The Wife of Bath is indecent about her sexual adventures and the way she utilizes sexual energy to get what she wishes. Then again, by doing precisely these things she is affirming negative generalizations about ladies and demonstrating that ladies are manipulative and tricky. Despite the fact that her activities

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