Chaucer's Guide To Life Analysis

Chaucer’s Guide to Life: Essay The Prologues of Canterbury Tales by a Geoffrey Chaucer, can be viewed in a perspective of a “Guide to Life”. His view of human life varies within the story. There are times within the prologue when humans are described as both bad and good and maybe even sometimes in between. There are a variety of characters who commit an abundant amount of sins and some who haven't committed any. Many characters also do what they have to in order to live and that may cause sins to occur. Some are really generous even if they don't riches themselves. It all varies within the character and his or her perspective. The prologues also represent the ways money was made. Some in an honest way, some in scam and some in no way. A prime example of a way money was made is the Wife of Bath. With this character, Chaucer explains that this women got wealthy with honest work. Chaucer also explains that even though this women got wealth through work, she has many flaws. For example, she is very egoistic and always has to go first. She also wears tights and new expensive clothing. Even with this, she is a legit business women. She got rich by making and sewing fabric which would be sold. There aren't …show more content…
The doctor exemplifies ways to make dishonest and sinful money. In this field of business, he cures or “helps” people in need. However, in doing this, he scams people out of money. He is greedy and uses an excuse to make people use hold as a cure and would take the gold for himself. He is delighted for plagues due to the fact that he would make an abundant amount of money during this time. Chaucer represents him as bad human behavior. This character teaches and shows us how money is made with dishonestly and with sins. Some of his sins were the scams he made with prescribing unnecessary drugs to apothecaries who had the drugs ready to be sold. He would take a portion of the money thus making it a