In Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales1, participants of a pilgrimage to Canterbury tell tales to entertain each other, revealing many aspects of medieval society. ... It becomes a double narration, where Chaucer creates this pilgrim who tells the story of a great pilgrimage to Canterbury. ... Each of the stories in The Canterbury Tales are to be told with the utmost accuracy, suggesting Chaucer's literacy. ?... With 30 pilgrims telling two tales each on their passage to Canterbury and two tales each on the return home, that totals to over a hundred tales. ... The next seve...

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Chaucer's General prologue and Wife of Bath's Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are about a group of pilgrims that are traveling to Canterbury to pay homage to St. ... Chaucer's pilgrims assemble at the Tabard Inn where the host of the inn, suggests that each pilgrim tell 2 tales each way on the pilgrimage "That ech of yow, to shorte with oure weye,In this viage shal telle tales tweye" (lines 791-792 General Prologue). ... This assemblege of 31 pilgrims then would make for a total of 124 tales. ... The main narrator of the Tales is an ordinary guy named Chaucer who i...

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Today most feminists commonly depict the Wife of Bath from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, as the ideal model for the feminist literary figure. ... In the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer uses a style of writing that tends to make fun of and point out the inner controversy of each pilgrim. ... Dooth as you list: I am here at youre wille... I nil leve no tales: I knowe you for a trewe wif, dame Alis." ... My answer would be most probably, based mainly on the fact that Chaucer wrote from within a misogynistic society and he too readily demonstrates satire with his other pilgrims and neg...

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• Grade Level: High School