The Knight's Tale

The Squire: The Squire is an interesting character in the Canterbury Tales because his uniqueness adds a lot of dimension to the tales. The Squire is the Knight’s son who’s main job is to assist his father. The Squire has served multiple times in Cavalry raids in Flanders, Picardy and Artois in northern Europe. Physically, he is a very strong and physically fit boy with very curly hair. He wears a very colourful long shirt with wide sleeves that resembles a field of white and red flowers which…

Great writers create great stories. In The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer writes about the different classes of pilgrims. He has a narrator, Harry Bailey, who speaks highly of the knight but does not care about the Summoner. Bailey tells all the pilgrims that each will have the opportunity to tell a story of which they desire and whoever has the best story will get a dinner paid by the pilgrims. Throughout the stories, women are described as men’s pleasure. Chaucer uses characterization and…

Miller's Prologue and Tale Summary After the Knight's story, the Host calls upon the Monk to tell a story that will rival the Knight's tale for nobility of purpose. But the Miller, who is very drunk, announces that he will tell a story about a carpenter. The Reeve, Oswald, objects because he was once a carpenter. Chaucer then warns the reader that this tale might be a bit vulgar, but he must tell all the stories because a prize is at stake. Thus, the Miller begins his tale. John, an old and…

England was vividly illustrated through the Canterbury Tales almost more accurately than any other history of that time period. Gregory Chaucer, the author of the Canterbury Tales, gives the reader a profound insight into the life of the fourteenth century people in England through direct and indirect characterization. Chaucer effectively reveals the character's thoughts, words, and action through the use of his "Prologue" to the Canterbury Tales. His work shows his many artistic qualities of…

Author Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales toward the end of the medieval period. Regarded as the first true English poetic masterwork, The Canterbury Tales describes twenty-nine pilgrims on a journey to Canterbury Cathedral to see the shrine of St. Thomas Becket. Chaucer describes many fictional characters from the different social classes in the Middle Ages; in particular, he includes many figures affiliated with the Church such as the Friar and the Summoner. These two characters share…

Everything is not always the way it seems, and a person’s true identity cannot be seen with the eye. This applies in both Chaucer’s Wife Of Bath’s Tale and Gardner’s Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, both in which a knight’s honor is tested and their true identity revealed. In Chaucer’s tale, a knight who has raped a maiden is put on trial, and instead of being punished he is given the task to find out what women most desire. He travels all over and asks every woman, but he could not find the…

would go days without eating. Parents in those two classes wanted to give their kids the best, but they did not have enough to provide for them. John Thatcher is a good example of a poor parent that wanted the best for his son. In the movie, A Knight's Tale John Thatcher loved his son, but he could not…

Even though The Canterbury Tales is considered one of the most important works of literature it is incomplete, out of the 120 stories that were supposed to be written only twenty-four of them were ever published. The author, Geoffrey Chaucer, wrote The Canterbury tales taking place in April of the thirteenth or fourteenth century. The story is set around the time of the pilgrimage to see the saint st. Thomas a Becket, a variety of people agreed to travel together and to make the trip less boring…

English Curriculum Speech I believe that the ENG 3U1 curriculum would benefit from the addition of a movie by the name of The Princess Bride. The Princess Bride was directed by Rob Reiner and screenplay was written by William Goldman in 1987, who also wrote the same 1973 novel the movie is based off of. It follows the adventures of a peasant named Westley and his journey into a fantastical world filled with pirates, royalty and miracles. The story starts off with Westley falling in love with a…

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…