Geoffrey Robertson

In fourteenth-century England, Geoffrey Chaucer’s publication of The Canterbury Tales critiques the Catholic Church through the religious figures depicted in the poem who digress from their religious duties. The tales that support Chaucer’s critique are clearly shown in “The Friar’s Tale,” “The Summoner’s Tale,” and “The Pardoner’s Tale.” In all three stories, the characters are corrupt church officials revealing their true greedy motives by taking advantage of the commoners. Noted, the…

In Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the narrator is on an excursion to Canterbury. The narrator meets up with numerous pilgrims along the way. Each one shares their own personal story based upon their experience of being from a different class. These personal stories give us an insight of their personalities, which connect with Chaucer’s descriptive words to piece together each pilgrims inner nature. The Wife of Bath, The Merchant, and The Miller are three of many pilgrims whose inner natures are…

I believe that the Legend of King Arthur is all fiction without any historical basis because there is no real evidence to support his existence and all of the evidence discovered ended up making more sense than not. Within the documentary, the narrator mentioned suspicious time figures between the evidence that had been mentioned for him. In example, the first writing of King Arthur was discovered three hundred years after his supposed death. This brings up suspicion because you would expect…

Pardoner’s Character Analysis Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales to satirize the corruption he noticed within the church. The tales used a small group of pilgrims to show how the English society was during the Middle Ages. Chaucer used the Pardoner, a character from the tales, to show the reality of what it was like inside the church. A pardoner’s job was to sell pardons and help people repent their sins, but this pardoner did not care about getting into heaven, he was just out for…

In Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the general prologue skims over the characters as the narrator chooses to show us. The last two pilgrims the reader is introduced to are the Summoner and Pardoner, who were travelling together before meeting the larger party. When describing the Summoner, the narrator begins by saying he had a cherubic face except it wasn’t a compliment. His face was red and full of pimples and he had narrow eyes. He was passionate and lecherous. He pretended to be wise…

Geoffrey Chaucer well-known for his Canterbury Tales, has brought critic to their feet. Left with unanswered questions that sparked controversy for many centuries. Geoffrey Chaucer was born in the late thirteen hundreds, he came from an affluent family that earned their living from a wine business. Chaucer was educated a board and he was very articulated in English, Latin , French and Italian which extensively influenced his writing. The Canterbury tales had many literary techniques familiar in…

In the text, “The Pardoner’s tale” Chaucer uses a character's external experience to share about the person's inner nature. Chaucer describes each pilgrim. In the medieval period, they judged people based on their personal appearance. Chaucer describes people through external experience to describe their personality and morals. Therefore, the best example can be seen through the Pardoner. Chaucer describes him as, his hair is greasy and yellow as wax. He has bulgy eyes and is very unattractive.…

The movie “A Knight’s Tale” is loosely based on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Both of these art works give good insight on the social classes of the medieval era. The two artworks highlight the Knight’s social class as well as the peasant social class. The Knight is the highest rank in his respected social class, while the peasant is average in their social class. The society was set up in such a manner that people were unable to change their social standards. During both “The Knight’s Tale” and…

“The Pardoner’s Tale” in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is a moral story told by the character, the Pardoner, about the dangers of greed. In the tale, three men set out from a tavern in order to find and kill Death. In the midst of their search, the men discover many gold coins resting under a tree. Instead of searching for and killing Death, they plot to kill each other over the gold coins, and in the end, the three men kill each other. Not only are the gold coins found within “The…

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 to me because of their interaction with charity. out of these three characters only one exemplifies the true meaning of charity that chaucer is trying to convey, the Parson. during this time period of the mid 1400’s the idea…