Canterbury

About Visit Canterbury Visit Canterbury is the official tourist information website for the English district of Canterbury. The website is kept by the official administrative tourist board of the district of Canterbury. It is focused on promoting the region for tourism, but it’s also a great place for businesses and media organisations interested in the region. You can find a whole lot of information on the website regarding the region. You can view more about things to do in the area, where to…

and sinless as they should have been or led on to be. Although Chaucer did not blatantly state his feelings about the corrupted Church, one can clearly see his position by simply reading the "General Prologue" of one of his now famous books, "The Canterbury Tales." Chaucer's disgust with the corrupted clergy, which happened to be most, is evident in the way he described the monk, the friar, and the pardoner. The monk, a supposed man of God, admitted otherwise. In the code of monks, hunting is…

Insight into Human Nature in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales The trip of all trips that was told from generation to generation is one that was not actually taken but we are inspired by the personal voyage of Chaucer himself. Geoffrey Chaucer wrote about this “trip” to bring attention to peoples beliefs. The variety of characters allow us to see how people came about their views and the different ways they went about practicing them. Chaucer tried to have at least one character that…

Sin is the main revolving component in The Canterbury Tales. Almost everyone who is participating in the spiritual quest of travelling from London to Canterbury is sinful; They are travelling for a purpose, after all, as explained in one of the very first lines in the poem, “For in their doth Nature stir them so, / Then people long on pilgrimage to go.” (Chaucer lines 11-12) Even though a majority of the characters in Chaucer’s poem are in connection with at least one of the seven deadly sins,…

In The Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffrey Chaucer, the stereotypes and roles in society are reexamined and made new through the characters in the book. Chaucer discusses different stereotypes and separates his characters from the social norm by giving them highly ironic and/or unusual characteristics. In Chaucer’s society, the traditional feudal system was losing its importance and the middle class began to emerge. The middle class characters within the Canterbury Tales, with their personal…

To be honorable simply is to earn high respect. Honor was established as an admirable and precious gift long before Geoffrey Chaucer and his The Canterbury Tales, as Publilius Syrus of the 1st century B.C. once questioned “What is left when honor is lost?” (Stolinsky). This question, although pondered long before the mid 1300’s, was depicted within the chivalric code, with honor being one important attribute that knights were expected to retain. In our day and age, honor is typically displayed…

in life. When Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the “Canterbury Tales”, he addressed this question head on. It is certain that different women would like different things, but in the same regard many women want many of the same things. In the Canterbury Tales, it is prevalent that the different stories show that different women want different things. Some women could just want money, while others just want love and vice versa. It is very well known in the Canterbury Tales that women want many things such…

was really no true opposition to the government. Geoffrey Chaucer uses his work of poems The Canterbury Tales in response to this, and addresses many societal issues of medieval England with an emphasis on his criticism of the church. The Canterbury Tales mirrors the characterization of clergymen of the time and allows Chaucer to condemn their corrupt…

A chauvinistic person is someone who feels loyalty or respect toward their gender or group. Geoffrey Chaucer’s view on women in The Canterbury Tales is greatly satirized allowing him to be seen as chauvinistic. The women in the tales are told about in a different manner than the men. The women throughout are shown as strong and powerful; but also express a quality that men fear in the end and cause their downfall. Chaucer talks about women in many of the tales and expresses them in some way of…

The Concept of Charity; “The Canterbury Tales” Throughout the “General Prologue” Chaucer presents a vast majority of characters in the mid 1400’s to represent human's instinct of dishonesty and corruption. Throughout all of Chaucer’s characters that he portrays as the twenty nine pilgrims, three in particular stand out due to their interaction with charity. During this time period of the mid 1400’s the idea of charity was seen as a good religious and human trait. Out of these three…