The Plowman's Tale

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…

In The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer creates tales that are told within the story as a whole. A group of thirty people go on a pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral. The Host decides to have a competition of who can tell the best story. Each person is suppose to tell four tales total, two on the way there and two on the way back. There were also rules, the tale had to be morally sound and entertaining. Whoever the Host chose as the winner would receive the prize of a free meal. Readers will…

Erick QuintanillaMs. SoardEnglish Literature 31 March 2018The Shipman’s Tale: Archetypal TheoryIn The Canterbury Tales, archetypal theory for the characters in the Shipman’s tale are; for the merchant, he’s known as the Innocent for being very generous to other people, the wife whose an outcast and also a greedy fool for all wanting money and lust, and finally a young monk, Don John, a Caregiver to the people, a Lover for the lust of the merchant’s wife, and a greedy Magician toward the merchant…

The Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffrey Chaucer, is a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims who are heading to Canterbury Cathedral. The Millers tale could be considered one of the most intriguing tales due to the sexual relationships intertwined in the story. His tale focuses on lying and cheating along with love and sex, showing how women can easily betray their marriages. Alisoun is the main female present in the Millers tale, she betrays her husband without a second thought and…

In Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Chaucer presents a variety of characters from the three dominant groups that made up Medieval society: the Church group, the Noble’s group, and the Merchant/Commoner group. Chaucer pays special attention to those individuals from the Church group. He presents the Parson as a kind, generous, and diligent shepherd to his parishioners and, in contrast, he presents the Friar as a greedy, lecherous, and corrupt member of the clergy. The Parson is one of…

In the intro of “The Canterbury Tales” the setting and mood of the town of Canterbury is set. The time period is around spring, I can identify this from lines 1-4 in the introduction. It states that rain in April ended the drought in March,and “generated” the flowers. These lines sound like a modern nursery rhyme “ April showers, bring May flowers”. Englishmen that traveled to Canterbury can be described as loyal or pure at heart. I believe that this foreshadows the personalities of the…

The Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer is a collection of tales told by different people on a pilgrimage to Canterbury. All of the tales have a strong central theme to them; The Pardoner’s Tale in particular, has one of the most apparent value lessons of all the tales. In the tale there are two sins that the rioters performed which led to their expiration; these sins include: drunkenness and greed. In the beginning of the tale, the pardoner denounces these sins as being two of the most…

In “The Pardoner’s Tale,” a story in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, a Pardoner tells the tale of how three men who are drunk go out to find death. On this journey to find death, they run into an old man who they accuse of death’s spy, and he tells them that they will find death under a tree. Finding this tree, they stumble upon finding lots of money, and in the end, they had killed each other over it. There are literary elements/devices used to make the story more interesting.…

Canterbury Tales are the tales told by pilgrims while making their pilgrimage to Canterbury. The Wife of Bath is one of the pilgrims on the journey, she is an exuberant woman who spends her time with her many husbands. Another is the Pardoner, a conniving man who simply preaches for profit. The tales these pilgrims tell gives the reader insight into their thoughts, their personalities, and into the way Medieval Society may have perceived certain things. Throughout The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer…

Chaucer often incorporates actions in the Canterbury Tales that are considered risqué or indecent, especially during the time period in which he wrote the stories. By doing this, Chaucer adds a comical aspect to his writing, which is prevalent when analyzing the plots of the tales. In the Shipman's Tale, there are many characteristics of "uncivilized free and wild thinking". This creativity sparks attention in readers and gives extra value to the work as a whole. The basic plot structure…