Geoffrey Robertson

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…

In 1999, HBO created a short three episode television series covering some of the most memorable tales in Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. The Claymation with the addition of various other animation styled series covered such stories as, The nun's priest tale, The wife of Bath’s tale, The millers Tale and The Pardoners tale. While The Canterbury tales series gave an easily understandable view of Chaucer’s collection of tales it leaves out many important pieces of text as well as symbols…

An inspiration, selfless, honourable; few pilgrims can be described using these words. This pilgrim in The Canterbury Tales is a pilgrim to aspire to be like. The squire is a true knight who is an inspiration to others, a contributing member of society, and one who cares for his lady. To illustrate, the squire is “a cadet, a lad of fire,” he’s passionate and it shows. More specifically, he follows his duty as a squire and goes into battle when ordered, and he is one of the most important…

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…

Did you know there is a crater on the moon named for Geoffrey Chaucer? Here on Earth he is best known for writing The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories, written in middle English at the end of the 14th century, at the end of the Hundreds war. One of the best tales is "The Pardoner's Tale." Geoffrey Chaucer is the first poet to be buried in Poets corner of Westminster Abbey. Though Chaucer died more than 600 years ago, he has more than 2,100 fans on Facebook. Also he had a part time job…

eoffery Chaucer, the greatest English poet of his lifetime, is estimated to have been born in 1343. Throughout his life, Chaucer became a page in a royal house, a soldier, a diplomat, and even a royal clerk. Geoffery was born in to a middle class family, he was the son of a merchant. During the beginning of his life time, Chaucer worked for the wife of Lionel of Antwerp, the daughter-in-law of Edward III, as page. During his time as a soldier for the English Army in France, Chaucer was captured…

The Franklin's tale portrays one main theme, and that theme is love. all throughout his tale, the Franklin has a story of love and never ever giving up on one another told all throughout the entire tale. It is likely that Chaucer wanted one of the tales to be a true love story, where through thick and thin one person loved another. Most of the themes introduced in the preceding tales are reintroduced in The Franklin's Tale and organized in support of the orthodox position of the Man of Law as…

The legends of King Arthur date back to 9th century. Many authors throughout history have written about the great King Arthur. The first written description of his entire life, from death to birth, came in the 12th century and was written by Geoffrey of Monmouth. There are many skeptics about some of the stories of his life, mostly because so many different authors have written about his life and they are all different. From the wizards and magic to the extraordinary battles he fought, and…

Each of Margaret Frazer’s tales have taken title inspiration from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The tales include a quote in each story from Chaucer. The Frevisse series, which includes The Boy’s Tale, is Frazer’s medieval, mystery masterpiece. In 1436, at the St. Fridewides convent, the majority of the story takes place. In the introduction, we learn that the characters start their story in a midsummers June. The story’s start to end is about a two week adventure. Dame Frevisse is the…

in his class. He cheats his way through class and changes his report cards to seem like he is doing well and lies about his progress in school. One day he gets into contact to his distant brother who is a student at Princeton. Toby’s brother, Geoffrey encourages Toby to get a good education at a prep school. Toby ends up lying about his performance in his applications and has the audacity to fake his own letter of recommendation. But he luckily got into the Hill School after some convincing…