Essay On The Canterbury Tales

There were many different elements in The Canterbury Tales that made Chaucer choose the stories he wanted to tell in the book. Originally in the book, there were many characters that decided to go to Canterbury to pray at a grave to ask for forgiveness or say thanks in some sort of way. On the way to Canterbury, the host of the pilgrims came up with a way to make the time pass by faster. He proposed that the pilgrims tell stories on the way, and the person with the best story, would get a prize of money. The rules of the contest were simple, tell a story with the best morale education and the best entertainment value. There are only two stories that have the best morale value and the best entertainment value, and those stories were told by the Knight and the Pardoner. The Knight’s tale was a story that did not …show more content…
His story was told to a tale of greed and how much greed can take over a person’s mind and body. This story was about a couple of people who wanted to steal gold from other people for themselves and keep it and try to pay off other people. This story was told with a good morale standard but not a very good entertainment value story. This story is ironic to the person who told it because the pardoner is very greedy himself, and he tells a story about how greed is very bad for the soul and for a person’s self esteem. He is a person that takes money from other people because he sells pardon papers to people who have sinned. He finds people that have sinned and he tells them that they need to buy a paper so they feel better about themselves. Lastly, the knight’s tale is the best tale out of the two stories because it has a good morale meaning and is a better entertainment story. The knight’s tale tells a better story for people that are struggling with trying to figure out who they should focus on and decide what to do. The knight’s tale is the better story of the