Geoffrey Fieger

The Canterbury Tales are a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer that were originally told by a group of thirty people traveling to Canterbury, England. The group of people are telling these stories in order to make their trip to Canterbury entertaining, and to win a dinner paid in full by the rest of the group. Two of the best stories told out of the group are the “Nun’s Priest’s Tale” and the “Wife of Bath’s Tale.” The “Nun’s Priest’s Tale” is a story told about a chicken who has a

Religious Figure Hypocrisy Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales, which has many religious statuses. In “from The Canterbury Tales: The Prologue”, has different characters and what they do while they are on a pilgrimage. A pilgrimage is a trip that the pilgrims go on and discover more about each other. They were often there being somebody they were not. Some would dress and act different just to be able to fit in with the popular. The pilgrims held really strong religious backgrounds, but

The Pardoner’s Tale is a story very relatable to many Americans in this day and age. This story tells of greed, pride, and malice. A theme as old as time, “money is the root of all evil” speaks volumes in this poem. The Pardoner’s Tale highlights an old saying that many use in everyday conversation. “Money is the root of all evil” is the main theme of this story, as three friends are shown turning against each other. These three friends participate in wasteful lives; constantly drunk, swearing,

Apart from both stories having framing devices; how do The Canterbury Tales and the Thousand and One Nights compare and differ from one another? In comparison; The Canterbury Tales and the Thousand and One Nights, both contain a selection of frame stories that are told over a certain period of time. The Thousand and One Nights and The Canterbury Tales are also poems and have a beginning and ending within which a series of tales are related. The Canterbury Tales and the Thousand and One Nights are

The Canterbury Tales By Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales is a unique book on this list because it’s the only book I’ve actually gone back and read a second time. The first time I read it was in English 101 where we spent our time analyzing the characters of the book and assessing their personality types. It was a really cool and innovative way of discussing characters in the text and it showed me how much the author can convey about a character by just describing their appearance, job, and

Chaucer conveys the theme that corruption is inevitable and sometimes not clearly visible within the “Pardoner’s Tale”. Corruption was not easily shown but took place with the interaction of the Pardoner. The Pardoner is driven by selling pardons to citizens in exchange for money. The citizens buy his pardons to relieve themselves of their sins, when the sins actually have no effect and are a scam. The theme was shown when the Pardoner said to the towns people “Dear People. I’ve some relics in my

Second Nine Weeks Paper In the Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer had a certain view of the church during his time. Chaucer views the church as corrupt and profligate, Chaucer also believed that the church lacked spirituality and that it was hypocritical. In the Canterbury Tales he expressed his feelings about the church through some of the characters on the journey. The Nun was one of the characters Chaucer used to show that the church was corrupt. A nun was a woman who was married to the church

Throughout The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer satirizes the chivalric code, in particular courtly love, in order to ridicule the knights in the noble social estates during his time. He utilizes the literary genre of a fable, which contains a moral lesson personified through animals, in “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” to mock society's dignified views of courtly love. Chaucer illustrates the ridiculousness of courtly love when he notes,“This gentle cock was master in some measure / Of seven hens, all

Chaucer was an English poet in the late 1400’s who wrote the famous story Canterbury tales. The story is one about a group of fictional characters that Chaucer made up to add not only diversity between each of the very different characters but it also adds the dynamic that each provide to the story. Thieves, hero’s, scammers, corrupt officials, peasants and more consist in the group of people that make up the story. Chaucer is often stated for using a large amount of satire in the story to provide

In The Canterbury Tales pilgrims of varying social classes come from all over England to gather at the Tabard Inn in preparation for a pilgrimage to Canterbury to receive the blessings of St. Thomas à Becket, the English martyr. One of the clergy members, the nun prioress, tags along on this adventure. The nun is one of the more corrupt pilgrims, she by no means fits the expectations of a common nun. The nun attempts to mimic those around her in order to draw more attention towards herself. She tries