Augustine of Canterbury

Throughout the Franklin's Tale, there are many characters that have great characteristics. Each make decisions that reflect the kind of character they are and what they stand for. The character that is the finest gentlemen and makes the best decisions in the tale is Arveragus . Arveragus is a knight in Brittany and he is married to his wife Dorigen. They have a great amount of respect for eachother. The way they show the amount of respect is that they both vow to be loyal to each other and…

The primary theme of the pardoner’s tale is greed is the root of all evil. This means that the love and dangers of money can lead to different types of evil and can cause disruptive behavior. People today can learn from the pardoner’s tale by showing us a lesson on how greed can take advantage of our minds and how it affects people in real life. In modern day times, criminals symbolizes the rioters in the Pardoner’s tale. They are a vicious group of people that do inappropriate activities such…

The purpose of the Merchant’s tale isn’t as deep as the other tales in the set for it has the simple objective of to entertain the reader. The comical set up allows for a break in the seriousness of the other tales in favor of a sexual comedy tale of how a wife, May, gets away with cheating on her old husband, January. Overall the tale is just a giant critique on the ideology of marriage and the sacred nature that people credit it for having. Chaucer almost states that marriage is blind and…

In the Canterbury tales Chaucer tried to reflect the social classes of medieval society, he tried to reflect what was wrong with all of the different classes. The characters in this story reveal the author’s purpose by showing the true side of how the classes act and treat each other and how corrupt they are by using the church to gain power and money. He wanted to show everyone that people did not really follow what the rules that were laid out for them. One example is the Nun who was all…

The film A fistful of dollars is a western movie. The movie is about a man with no name who rides in to a western village on his horse. The town name that he arrived at is called San Miguel. After arriving to the town he discovered a feed between the two families. Like in most western movies the feud is over power. The feuding families consisted of the Rojo brothers and the family of the town sheriff. The stranger took note of an opportunity to make some money. This is where the film ad…

The Squire: The Squire is an interesting character in the Canterbury Tales because his uniqueness adds a lot of dimension to the tales. The Squire is the Knight’s son who’s main job is to assist his father. The Squire has served multiple times in Cavalry raids in Flanders, Picardy and Artois in northern Europe. Physically, he is a very strong and physically fit boy with very curly hair. He wears a very colourful long shirt with wide sleeves that resembles a field of white and red flowers which…

realization that Hadleyburg is not what is appears to be. The people pride themselves on their reputation and are comfortable living inside their bubble of fabricated probity. Instead of reflecting on their treatment of others, they focus on sustaining the image of their holy village. To entice the people of Hadleyburg into falling into the strangers trap of a joke, he baits them with a bag of gold. The symbolism behind the bag of money, is comparable to the Garden of Eden. Just like Eve was…

lif if thou canst telen me, what thing it is that women most desiren (Chaucer).” Throughout the Wife of Bath’s Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer the answer to this question is sought out by the Young Knight. The Wife of Bath is a complex character in the Canterbury Tales and her personality directly relates to the tale that she shares with the rest of the company. Many themes arise from this tale. These of which include, the numerous amount of women all with different answers that somehow seem to have…

Prologue: One does not know the name of the author since the document is a simple record of a trial that occurred in the mid-14th Century. We can guess who the writer of this court record by looking who the prominent scribes for the criminal court of the Parlement of Paris in the fourteenth century were. Being the scribe of a court trial is not really relevant to who the author is though. Just copying down precedents does not quite give a voice to the document. The record describes the…

A Knight’s Tale is about three friends who pursued the challenge of jousting after their master, Sir Ector, died. William Thatcher took his dead master’s armor and went on to win his first tournament. As William, Roland, and Wat went on to compete in many more tournaments, William meets Jocelyn and instantaneously falls in love with her. William Thatcher was born in the Cheapside borough of London in the early 1350’s. Even though he was not very wealthy, he had always dreamed of being a knight.…