Recently we viewed the story The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The setting of the story takes off at Tabard Inn in Southwark (London). The General Prologue opened the readers to 29 pilgrims. These pilgrims were about to set off on a Spring pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket in Canterbury. Chaucer then chooses to accompany them on the pilgrimage. On the way to Canterbury there is a story telling contest. The winner 's prize is a paid for dinner by all the other pilgrims. In the tales Chaucer makes remarks about noble corruption. He gives readers a taste of social order. Back in the Middle Ages the Social Anecdote was a huge ordeal. It was said that the class was not set up by the kings but from God himself. Going more
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Back in the Medieval Church, a pardoner was considered a clergyman. That being said he had the capability to condone sins and award indulgences. This was powered to them by the Pope himself. These assets were not to be sold, but with greedy clergymen around they overpowered the scared people and urged for money. After selling off these indulgences the Pardoner would then pocket the money. Chaucer 's Pardoner stated "And thus I preach against the very vice, I make my living of-avarice"(Pardoner 5-6). Going on with the tale of this greedy clergyman, he begins to tell his tale about a group of three young men who were gambling and drinking. The Pardoner goes up to the three young men as they are drinking at a nearby tavern criticizing their sinful behaviors. But then "And as they sat, they heard the hand-bell clink/Before a coffin going to the grave" (Pardoner 56-57). It was revealed that the dead was upon a friend of the three. The killer whose name Death has bestowed upon him. The young men are outraged ad they then decide that they will seek out this killer named Death and then kill them, avenging their friend. As they are traveling down a road they see an elderly man. They hear him mention the killer named "Death" and they …show more content…
In this tale Chaucer is representing the social estate of women. The position of women and their roles in society was determined by the viewpoints of the Roman Catholic Church. The main role for women in the Middle Ages was running the household and barring children. Some of the peasant women was even known for laboring in the fields. With women having so many duties it was so unusual for the childless and care free Wife of Bath to be in this nature. She begins her tale which is set back to the days of King Arthur in the land of Briton. In Arthur 's Court, a young lusty knight comes across a beautiful young maiden. Overpowered by his lust he rapes her. The court is belittled by this crime and are certain the knight should be put the knight to death. Arthurs Queen however asks the king to give him a chance to save himself. Arthur grants his queen 's request. "At her convenience, and expressed her will:/ You stand, for such is the position still,/In no way certain of your life, and she,/ "Yet you shall live if you can answer me:/ What is the thing that women most desire?" (Wife of Bath 77-81). He then sets out seeking what women most desire. But the knight is welcomed by different answers. Some women he asked claimed women wanted money, some desired jolliness, some sex, some just simply wanted to be free to do whatever as they pleased. When the knight 's prolonged time draws to a close he heads
Back in the Medieval Church, a pardoner was considered a clergyman. That being said he had the capability to condone sins and award indulgences. This was powered to them by the Pope himself. These assets were not to be sold, but with greedy clergymen around they overpowered the scared people and urged for money. After selling off these indulgences the Pardoner would then pocket the money. Chaucer 's Pardoner stated "And thus I preach against the very vice, I make my living of-avarice"(Pardoner 5-6). Going on with the tale of this greedy clergyman, he begins to tell his tale about a group of three young men who were gambling and drinking. The Pardoner goes up to the three young men as they are drinking at a nearby tavern criticizing their sinful behaviors. But then "And as they sat, they heard the hand-bell clink/Before a coffin going to the grave" (Pardoner 56-57). It was revealed that the dead was upon a friend of the three. The killer whose name Death has bestowed upon him. The young men are outraged ad they then decide that they will seek out this killer named Death and then kill them, avenging their friend. As they are traveling down a road they see an elderly man. They hear him mention the killer named "Death" and they …show more content…
In this tale Chaucer is representing the social estate of women. The position of women and their roles in society was determined by the viewpoints of the Roman Catholic Church. The main role for women in the Middle Ages was running the household and barring children. Some of the peasant women was even known for laboring in the fields. With women having so many duties it was so unusual for the childless and care free Wife of Bath to be in this nature. She begins her tale which is set back to the days of King Arthur in the land of Briton. In Arthur 's Court, a young lusty knight comes across a beautiful young maiden. Overpowered by his lust he rapes her. The court is belittled by this crime and are certain the knight should be put the knight to death. Arthurs Queen however asks the king to give him a chance to save himself. Arthur grants his queen 's request. "At her convenience, and expressed her will:/ You stand, for such is the position still,/In no way certain of your life, and she,/ "Yet you shall live if you can answer me:/ What is the thing that women most desire?" (Wife of Bath 77-81). He then sets out seeking what women most desire. But the knight is welcomed by different answers. Some women he asked claimed women wanted money, some desired jolliness, some sex, some just simply wanted to be free to do whatever as they pleased. When the knight 's prolonged time draws to a close he heads