Augustine of Canterbury

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is the documentation of 29 different people going on a pilgrimage. It shows the changing medieval society-taking place in England and the people coming on this journey come from all different types of shire’s and social classes. They are travelling from London to Canterbury for a spiritual journey that will bring people closer to the divine spirit and help them evolve into better people. Harry Bailey who is hosting tells the guest’s that in order to…

primarily resulted from the steady gaze of the common man upon the corrupt and avaricious clergy. The Canterbury Tales may be Chaucer’s most renowned work due to his efforts to display the idiosyncrasies and hypocrisies of each person he encountered on his way to Canterbury for his pilgrimage, as well as his attempts…

This collect was mentioned in The Canterbury Tales by the Wife of Bath in her prologue and it was called “book of wikked wyves” (Chaucer Line 685). Within this collection there are three essays that give antifeminist views from different prospective. First essay is Theophrastus “The Golden…

Marriage was a contract between two families and that women were treated as objects. They were to be the perfect maidens and “the emblem of all man 's strivings for self-perfection and self-fulfillment-for his ‘joye’ and ‘solas’ (Hanning, 580).” In the Canterbury Tales, Wife of Bath’s character presents a different perspective of what the audience believe a medieval woman is like. The Wife of Bath is a unique character, one might even say that she is a feminist because she was able to use her…

Although the Canterbury tales is a satiric story about pilgrims, each character presents personality traits, appearances and tales that do not fit them in to absolute good or evil. However, instead of leaving the sinful characters to only be defined by their evil deeds, Chaucer manages to rationalize their deed to be a result of their nature. Giving them more of an amplified version of evil characteristics every human beings possesses. Through this rationale, Chaucer was able to show that no…

There is always a desire as a reader to be able to identify a hidden meaning in a tale or story, especially middle English literature. Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower were two famous authors of that time and conveniently wrote tales that seem to relate to each other in many ways, and are opposite in many ways as well. Both tales have knights being asked to make a choice, one that will affect their knighthood as well as their future. Both tales have an old hag challenging the morals of the…

In the Pardoner’s Tale, us readers are met with the narrator known as the pardoner”. We are quick to find that he openly admits to preaching so that he may make lots of money. Every sermon that he preaches is about greed: He preaches about greed then he brings out a bag of “relics” (which he tells the pilgrims in the prologue are fake), then he has his congregation touch them claiming that they have “healing powers”. They believe the pardoner make their offerings to him which he pockets).…

James Joyce’s stories are based in Dublin, Ireland and depict the troublesome and dark lives the Dubliners lived. His stories are based in the times where Dublin was under English/Roman Catholic rule and under their control, their duty was to serve the church under every circumstance. Joyce describes this as if they were paralysed by their supermacy in which he calls it “hemiplegia of the will”. His stories strongly depict the entrapment they felt and how they lived in an oppressive environment…

In The Pardoner’s tale, a horribly greedy man divulges the sinful business tactics he uses to trick people out of their money. He teaches sermons using fake relics fooling people into buying them to work miracles. The real-life version of the Pardoner, Marjoe, made his living by traveling across the United States pretending to be an amazing preaching prodigy, as a child, thus tricking people out of their money in the same way. Furthermore, the Pardoner entertains his fellow travelers by telling…

Mon mai longe liues wene, Ac ofte him lieth the wrench. Feir weder turneth ofte into reine And wunderliche hit maketh his blench. Tharuore mon, thu the bi-thench, Al schal falewi thi grene, Weilawei, nis king ne quene, That ne schal drinche of deathes drench. Mon, er thu falle of thi bench, Thine sunne thu aquench. (Lisle, “The Three Living and The Three Dead”) Having revised the concept of childhood from the Antique period up to the later Middle Ages, with special attention paid to the…