City of Canterbury

In The Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer illustrates the medieval society. The Prologue is an introduction to the thirty-one characters, who go on a pilgrimage to Canterbury. The people in pilgrimage want to visit the relics of Saint Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. Two of these characters are the Knight and the Squire. The Knight is the father of the Squire, and they both are warriors and gentleman, who ride their horses gallantly. Even though they have these similarities…

What do you think it would take to tell the perfect story? The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is a collection of stories put together into one narrative. In this story, the characters go on pilgrimage. While on this pilgrimage they are to tell stories, with one being the winner. In order to be the winner, the Host get to be the judge of it, your tale has to be entertaining as well as morally sound. Both “The Miller’s Tale” and “The Reeve’s Tale” tell embarrassing stories about one another…

Chaucer utilizes his intelligence and storytelling ability to criticize medieval English society in his compilation of short stories, The Canterbury Tales. The church's power and its ability to harshly punish dissenters forced Chaucer to use his stories as a way of questioning established religious beliefs and commenting on his society. Chaucer appears to have enjoyed criticizing established religion and societal norms, and uses his texts to illustrate these criticisms. The most prominent…

Since the beginning of time, greed has saturated human nature. Geoffrey Chaucer makes this fact apparent in The Canterbury Tales, translated by Peter G. Beidler. At the foundation of all of these stories, Chaucer calls attention to the basic traits of humanity and how they affect the everyday life of everyday people. Of the ten tales that Chaucer wrote, the lust for money and material goods plays the most prominent role, especially in those which concern the Church. Chaucer uses two pilgrims to…

Medieval England; this was a time period in England from the 5th Century to the period of the renaissance, (Middle.) this was a time period where people’s lives quite literally was revolved around religion. Their lives were completely dominated by the church. It wasn’t unusual for medieval people to be going to church everyday, along with praying 5+ times a day. During this period of time, the Catholic church was the only church in Europe, therefore it was easy for people to all get along…

economic power, becoming the 21st century equals of their male counterparts. However, if one were to be skeptical of these beliefs they need only look into the past and see the way women were perceived in historical literature. Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is such a window one can look into and see the perception of women in the medieval period, or at least how he viewed them. The women of the period are displayed through multiple characters, but two of the most known are Alison, of…

representative of this horrid sin would be the Summoner. He would rather take people’s money instead of sending them to the court. (Raphel, “The Canterbury Tales Prologue”). This man had a sense of heartless behavior that made him seem so horrid and monstrous. “He will allow a man to keep his mistress for a year and excuse him in full”(Raphel, "The Canterbury Tales Characters: The Summoner"). He would interfere with a man’s thinking just to get a quick buck out of…

The pilgrims, or characters of The Canterbury Tales are relatable to the present society in numerous ways. Many of them show traits that are similar to today’s world like greed, pride, envy, and gluttony. The Canterbury Tales consist of a prologue defining all of the pilgrims and individual stories that the pilgrims tell. Each character has his or her own unique personality that is comparable to some well-known personalities. In The Canterbury Tales prologue, there are several characters that…

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…

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…