Augustine of Canterbury

The Knight and The Miller In the Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer, there are 29 pilgrims headed to Canterbury from London. Harry Bailey, the host of the pilgrimage, presents a competition that each pilgrim tell two stories on the way to Canterbury and back to London and whoever shares the best story will be honored with a feast paid for by the other pilgrims. All of the pilgrims agree to do the challenge and they start the journey. The pilgrims each come from a specific class of society…

this time choose to travel to Canterbury. Canterbury is the site of Canterbury Cathedral where the relics of Saint Thomas Becket are stored. Pilgrims journey there to thank the martyr for helping them in their time of need. Chaucer tells us that as he prepared to go on such a pilgrimage. He is renting a room in the Tabard Inn tavern in the city of Southwark. During Chaucer’s stay, he encounters a great company of twenty-nine other travelers also on their way to Canterbury. Chaucer…

In the book, The Canterbury Tales, the author, Geoffrey Chaucer, demonstrates his negative perspective on love and institution of marriage. “The Knight’s Tale” and “The Miller’s Tale” enhance the sense that Chaucer does not appreciate the idea of love and marriage. Both stories contain a love triangle and neither marriage was dependent on true love or treated with the appropriate respect. In “The Knight’s Tale”, two imprisoned, sworn brothers, Palamon and Arcita, are in love with the same…

In The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer creates tales that are told within the story as a whole. A group of thirty people go on a pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral. The Host decides to have a competition of who can tell the best story. Each person is suppose to tell four tales total, two on the way there and two on the way back. There were also rules, the tale had to be morally sound and entertaining. Whoever the Host chose as the winner would receive the prize of a free meal. Readers will…

Erick QuintanillaMs. SoardEnglish Literature 31 March 2018The Shipman’s Tale: Archetypal TheoryIn The Canterbury Tales, archetypal theory for the characters in the Shipman’s tale are; for the merchant, he’s known as the Innocent for being very generous to other people, the wife whose an outcast and also a greedy fool for all wanting money and lust, and finally a young monk, Don John, a Caregiver to the people, a Lover for the lust of the merchant’s wife, and a greedy Magician toward the merchant…

The Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffrey Chaucer, is a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims who are heading to Canterbury Cathedral. The Millers tale could be considered one of the most intriguing tales due to the sexual relationships intertwined in the story. His tale focuses on lying and cheating along with love and sex, showing how women can easily betray their marriages. Alisoun is the main female present in the Millers tale, she betrays her husband without a second thought and…

In Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Chaucer presents a variety of characters from the three dominant groups that made up Medieval society: the Church group, the Noble’s group, and the Merchant/Commoner group. Chaucer pays special attention to those individuals from the Church group. He presents the Parson as a kind, generous, and diligent shepherd to his parishioners and, in contrast, he presents the Friar as a greedy, lecherous, and corrupt member of the clergy. The Parson is one of…

However, not many people would think of "The Wife of Bath's Tale" by Geoffrey Chaucer. The "Wife of Bath's Tale" was written long ago in the 1380's. One of Geoffrey Chaucer's most famous works was The Canterbury Tales, which was a collection of stories told by pilgrims on their way to Canterbury. The pilgrims were to tell two stories, on the way there and on the way back. A free feast was to go to the pilgrim with the best story. One of the most interesting stories was the "Wife of Bath's Tale."…

In the intro of “The Canterbury Tales” the setting and mood of the town of Canterbury is set. The time period is around spring, I can identify this from lines 1-4 in the introduction. It states that rain in April ended the drought in March,and “generated” the flowers. These lines sound like a modern nursery rhyme “ April showers, bring May flowers”. Englishmen that traveled to Canterbury can be described as loyal or pure at heart. I believe that this foreshadows the personalities of the…

The Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer is a collection of tales told by different people on a pilgrimage to Canterbury. All of the tales have a strong central theme to them; The Pardoner’s Tale in particular, has one of the most apparent value lessons of all the tales. In the tale there are two sins that the rioters performed which led to their expiration; these sins include: drunkenness and greed. In the beginning of the tale, the pardoner denounces these sins as being two of the most…