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Not very positively, I'm afraid. Chaucer only wholly approves of the Knight, the Parson, and the Plowman in his Prologue.The monk wears fine clothing and disregards the oath of the holy life he...
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The Wife of Bath sees marriage as a means for her to have sex and she has a strong sexual appetite. She feels that God gave women sexual desires and that it can't be wrong to give in to those...
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This is sort of a puzzling question because you don't mention which two "morals" you have. Also the consensus is that there are only two morals to The Wife of Bath's Tale, although the Wife...
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Including Chaucer, 30, though not all tell tales.
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The General Prologue introduction of the Wife of Bath in the Canterbury Tales describes her in detail telling her location, most pronounced physical characteristic, occupation, skill, religious...
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The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales acts as an explanation and an introduction to the Tales, and it allows Geoffrey Chaucer to arrange and establish the hierarchy of the pilgrims. Chaucer uses the...
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The main theme of the Nun's Priest's Tale, I would argue, is vanity, especially as it is related to the dangers of flattery. Chauntecleer, a large rooster, has a terrible dream one night in which...
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The pilgrims are on a pilgrimage: this is a journey to a holy place. During medieval times (Chaucer's time) people often would visit shrines or even the Holy Lands for the good of their souls....
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There are two primary women introduced in the General Prologue of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. The first woman to be introduced is the Prioress. Her given name is Madame Eglentyne and...
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There are numerous examples of dramatic irony in The Canterbury Tales. Overall, Chaucer skillfully uses irony as a way of putting distance between what appears on the surface to be the case and...
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Chaucer had a difficult time with the hypocrisy he so often saw in the Roman Catholic Church during the medieval period. Priests who were to be celibate, taking a vow of poverty, often kept women...
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The Pardoner and Chaucer have two very different morals to their respective tales. Chaucer uses the Pardoner as a vehicle to expose the Catholic Church as corrupt. The Pardoner uses his own tale of...
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There are many reasons that this is an important piece, but one that truly stands out is that it was the first book of poetry that was written in the English language. This made it available to...
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The main characters in "The Wife of Bath's Tale" are the knight (who rapes a woman at the beginning of the story and, therefore, is given the option of finding out what women most desire or...
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The message that is delivered is the answer to the question "What do all women most desire?" Through the Wife of Bath's very long prologue and following story, the reader learns that her answer to...
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The Knight and the Squire are both described in noble terms. The knight's position as the first in the Prologue shows the esteem of his social standing. Furthermore, Chaucer describes him as being...
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Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, written in the fourteenth century, is notable for several reasons, one of which is his satirical look at some aspects of English society in his time. One of...
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It is quite possible that the old man is death itself. Although the old man complains a little about being so old and wishing that death would find him, it isn't proof that he is just an old man....
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One idea would be to create a collage of characters based on your analysis of textual information. You could either draw them, generate them (Bitmojis might be fun), or select celebrities for those...
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The real name of the Wife of Bath, or the name she calls herself is both Alyson and Alys, which she states in the prologue; as to her occupation, it seems to be that her primary purpose is to...
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First, The Canterbury Tales are the most extensive example of Middle English literature in existence. At the time Chaucer wrote the tales, most literature in Britain was written in French. This was...
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The General Prologue, where Chaucer introduces the pilgrims, is the best place to determine Chaucer's opinion of most of the pilgrims. There is no doubt Chaucer likes the Knight, the Oxford...
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The Canterbury Tales is not a single tale, but a collection of them and each has its own moral lesson. To answer your question in a truly helpful manner I would need to know which tale it is that...
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Geoffrey Chaucer, in his General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, introduces an array of characters who have stopped at an inn on their way to Canterbury. The purpose of their trip is religious;...
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In "The Canterbury Tales," by Geoffrey Chaucer, a large group of twenty-nine travelers is headed to Canterbury on a pilgrimage. They intend to worship at the shrine of Saint Thomas a Becket. Most...
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The Pardoner and the Summoner are the two most corrupt clergymen in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Both these men take advantage of their positions to extort money from those they have vowed to...
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The Wife of Bath makes no secret of her desire for sex. She has been married five times and is looking for another husband. She claims that God has created people to be good at different things,...
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Chaucer mocks the Catholic Church. This can be seen in both The Prologue and in the tales. Although he mocks the church and its practices, he is respectful of religion itself. First, he uses the...
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Chaucer uses satire in the descriptions of the pilgrims in the "General Prologue" of The Canterbury Tales to reveal corruption in the Church that was prevalent in society. Many members of the...
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In Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, 32 characters make the trip to Canterbury. 29 of these are mentioned in line 24 of the “General Prologue.” The narrator joins this group (making 30). The...
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The Wife of Bath represented a semi-independent woman of that time period in the sense of her career, wealth, and relations. She worked as a seamstress, which seems fitting as she came from the...
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The clear moral of this excellent story is the danger of being overwhelmed by flattery. The fox of course shows himself to be a master of flattery and is able to use this strategy to snatch...
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As her title proclaims, The Wife of Bath was a wife. Along with this she is a maker of cloth, an adventursome traveler and a wealthy widow from having handled four out of five husbands well. There...
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The Wife of Bath defends marriage strongly because she sees it as a vehicle rather than a status. Being married five times, she has experienced lust, love, death, need, riches, everything. She said...
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Well, Geoffrey Chaucer gives no answer to this question in Canterbury Tales. There are 30 pilgrims and each one is supposed to tell two stories on the way and two stories after coming back from the...
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The purpose of the "The General Prologue" is to introduce the characters and show the variety of people, trades, and social classes of this time period. There are pilgrims from the noble class...
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Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Talesis recognized as the first book of poetry written in the English language. A composer of French poetry as well, Chaucer incorporates in his tales many of the...
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The Wife of Bath is considered to be in the middle-class group of Pilgrims. This is because of her exploitative behaviors and her attitude that a woman rules. She had five husbands and dominated...
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Of the pilgrims' tales in The Canterbury Tales, the Parson's Tale stands out not only because it is the only tale in prose but also it signals a major shift from tales to entertain to religious...
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The main "message" of The Knight's Tale may well be a concern with the proper ordering of the elements that compose a person's being and soul. While there are clearly more than one theme, with the...
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Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales are partially satirical, and he pokes fun at or critiques just about every facet of medieval society. The clergy are no exception. Generally, Chaucer seems to think...
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I will give you one of each to get you started. A metaphor implies a comparison between two seemingly unalike things. An example would be when the summoner's face is described as being like it is...
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One reason that Alison's head might be tilted in portraits of her is that Chaucer's Canterbury Tales reveals that the Wife of Bath was deaf in one ear. The injury was actually caused by her fifth...
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In her story, the Wife of Bath tells of a knight that has to find the correct answer to the question: What do women really want? After a lot of wondering and looking for the correct answer, the...
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In the "Canterbury Tales", the characters that comprise the middle class are the Cook, the Shipman, the Physician, and The Wife of Bath. All of these characters are portrayed as competent...
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Since Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales as an estate satire, he pokes fun at certain people belonging to the three estates in England: (First Estate) the clergy, (Second Estate) the...
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Chaucer idealizes the following pilgrims: the knight, the parson, and the plowman. The knight is idealized as a “true, a perfect gentle knight.” Chaucer lists his accomplishments for us, including...
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Chaucer is commenting here about the narrow rules and confines women had to live by within a male-dominated society. In the Middle Ages, it was believed that men were born with the "higher" human...
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I'm not actually sure if Chaucer disliked any of the pilgrims per se. One of Chaucer's main goals is to represent people from many different classes and social circles, and so he's trying to...
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The narrator in The Canterbury Tales is the lens through which we see every other character, and consequently he is at pains in the General Prologue to portray himself as a truthful person whose...
