The book that I choose to do that was banned was Chaucer's, Canterbury Tales. Chaucer's, the Canterbury Tales (written in the late 1380s), is a collection of stories of various kinds derived mainly from Italian and other European sources drawn together by the notion of a pilgrimage. In the Middle Ages it was not uncommon for people of different social classes to join together as pilgrims as they would not elsewhere in life. ... Usually the tales are popular or well known stories to which Chaucer adds or removes details to suit his purpose. ... Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was bann...

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There are so many different ways to interpret and analyze all of the stories in "The Canterbury Tales." ... The Pardoner's true character comes out and is put on full display for not only the audience in the story but the actual readers of "The Canterbury Tales," as well when he tells his story. ... When it comes to "The Pardoner's Tale," the dynamic between the teller and the tale is unlike any other tale in "The Canterbury Tales." ... Nevertheless, he follows his tale with a sales pitch to the pilgrims to try to sell the relics he just admitted to being phonies. ... The pilgrims w...

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The Canterbury Tales, also expresses some similar values in its text. ... On the other hand , The Canterbury Tales was a frame story. ... The Canterbury Tales characters though, were extremely complex. ... In comparison to this style, The Canterbury Tales were in the Chaucer style. ... When The Canterbury Tales was finally written the language was changed again. ...

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The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories in a frame story written by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. It is the story of a group of thirty people who travel as pilgrims to Canterbury (England). The pilgrims, who come from all layers of society, tell stories to each other to kill time while they travel to Canterbury. Chaucer's intention was that each pilgrim should tell two tales on the way to Canterbury and two more on the way back. ... However, the Squire from The Canterbury Tales does not settle into disputes for he is "In hope to win thereby his lady's grace-. ...

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Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales contains stories told by people whose characters and personalities come from every side of the spectrum. ... Since all the tales end with some sort of moral or lesson, many people take The Canterbury Tales for simple children's fables. ... Stealing, telling dirty stories, cheating people out of their money (especially from one, whose look towards for moral standards), are great examples of the immorality that existed amongst the pilgrims as they made their way to Canterbury. ... After giving examples of corruption and solid principles, Chaucer begin...

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Canterbury Tales Though the characters in the Canterbury Tales are described vividly and often comically, it is not necessarily true that these characters are therefore stereotypes of The Middle ages. The intricate visual descriptions and the tales the characters tell help to direct the reader in finding a more accurate and realistic picture of the pilgrims, bringing into question the theory that Chaucer was just collating stereotypes from his time. ... The format of The Canterbury Tales suggests a simplistic approach, a prologue and epilogue and in between a collection of ...

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The Canterbury Tales is said to have presented Chaucer at his best (Hooper XI). Chaucer never finished The Canterbury Tales as he had originally planned. ... His original idea was to have each pilgrim tell four tales, but he ended up not even completing one tale for each pilgrim (classicnotes.com). The Canterbury Tales is a collection of a variety of stories told by traveling pilgrims from all classes of society while on their way to visit the shrine of St. ... He played the bagpipes as the pilgrims left town. ...

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The Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories, which are told by different characters to serve as entertainment on their journey to Canterbury. ... There are some connections between the beliefs and attitudes of each pilgrim and the tale he or she tells. In the Pardoner's tale The hypocrisy he has described in his Prologue becomes evident in his tale, as all the corruption he lists in his criticisms at the beginning "gluttony, drunkenness, gambling, and swearing "are faults that he himself has either displayed to the other pilgrims or proudly clai...

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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. ... In the tales that follow, Chaucher (the pilgrim) will impersonate the others,The wordes mote be cosin to the dede- (Line 742)? ... 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...

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In the "General Prologue- of Canterbury Tales Chaucer describes the pilgrims who take a religious journey to the shrine of Thomas Becket. There are 29 pilgrims in all, and only two are women-the Prioress and the Wife of Bath. ... The role of women, the devoutness of the church, and the pilgrim's values and motives are satirized and questioned through the description of each, and the importance of social status and an essence of the lifestyle of late medieval times is clearly evident. ... Chaucer's harsh criticism of the corruptness of the church institution and his anticlerical views...

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In The Canterbury Tales, his illuminating views of character are clearly evident when he describes the pilgrims in his stories. ... Through his characters in The Canterbury Tales, it is easy to see that Chaucer has a great perspective into the different aspects of human nature. ...

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Marriage as a topic can be seen as contributing to what we perceive to be the unique identity of each tale primarily because it is alluded to, in one way or another, in every tale of fragment A. ... As a self consciously literary tale, it is this imposition of pre-destined order- the providential ordering of the universe' according to Helen Cooper in her Oxford Guide To The Canterbury Tales, upon the totality of the narrative itself, where each character resembles a figure in the conventional mode of story and description (e.g Emily as abstract paragon of classical femininity) which asse...

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In Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales there are an abundance of themes, one of the more evident being marriage. In these tales the views of marriage vary. Each tale offers a different view of marriage; the views are illustrated by the characters in each pilgrim's tale. The tales regarding marriage address the infamous "Marriage Debate" in which each pilgrim gives their say on how marriage should be. ... The Franklin tells an dyllic tale ...

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The Canterbury Tales is no exception. ... His true personality becomes evident when he begins to reveal secrets about his job to the pilgrims. ... He uses this approach throughout his sermons, and also in the tale he tells to the pilgrims. ... Before starting his tale, the Pardoner also preaches to his fellow pilgrims about numerous vices, including gluttony, gambling, and swearing; all habits he commits. ... It is likely that the Pardoner included this in the tale in order to scare the other pilgrims by making them think that avarice will only bring disorder and death. ...

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Character Analysis of the Pardoner In the poem, The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer uses many methods of characterization to develop the lively personalities of the pilgrims. ... Through these various methods of characterization, the Pardoner is dipicted as a thoroughly simple and corrupt way The Canterbury Tales is full of colorful descriptions, especially in the case of the Pardoner. ... Chaucer does a superb job in connecting the reader with each pilgrim. ... Chaucer tells of the Pardoner's relationships with and actions toward other pilgrims not only in the prologue of T...

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Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is about twenty-nine pilgrims who join Chaucer on a pilgrimage to Canterbury to the shrine of Saint Thomas A. Becket. Two of the people on the journey are the Knight and the Squire. Although the Knight is the Squire's father, their personalities, appearances...

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Canterbury tales: Narrative Personae A persona is used as an image that a writer presents of (mostly) himself but with certain differences. ... In the general prologue, it is the narrator Chaucer who introduces the pilgrims and tells about what they are going to do. ... Because the narrator writes down his impressions of the pilgrims from memory, whom he does and does not like, and what he chooses and chooses not to remember about the characters, tells us as much about the narrator's own prejudice as it does about the characters themselves. ... The Miller's tale is a short sometime...

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To Chaucer's final period, in which he achieved perhaps his best writing ability, belongs his masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales, which was written mostly after 1387. ... The pilgrims' tales include a variety of medieval genres from humorous to serious. ... Canterbury Tales included a wide cross section of 14th century English which is in part what makes it so interesting. Before being introduced to Canterbury Tales I knew nothing of Geoffrey Chaucer. ... Thus Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales- and his numerous other works will remain an important and historic part of Engl...

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The Canterbury Tales consists of a narrative Prologue, which introduces the characters and also of a group of tales, told by each of the pilgrims. ... Often times these tales poked fun and ridiculed another pilgrim's character. ... In the Prologue, the narrator offers a description of each character that is embarking on the pilgrimage to Canterbury. ... The Knight is frequently named as one of the "ideal" pilgrims on the journey to Canterbury. The Wife of Bath is perhaps the most fully realized character in the Canterbury Tales. ...

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Geoffrey Chaucer, for example, incorporated a variety of sexual acts within his works The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde. ... Typically, in the extramarital affairs in The Canterbury Tales "the woman is invariably the strayer" (Haskell, 9). ... To continue with this derailment of the significance of sex through infidelity, we must also examine the inclusion of fabliau tales in The Canterbury Tales. ... Although sex is prevalent in nearly all of The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer often marginalizes it through his purposeful inattention to it. ... In her prologue the Wife of Bath tells the...

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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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Using that definition, I think that all the Pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales have some sort of satire in them to some extent. ... The Knight is one of the pilgrims that Chaucer used more subtle satire with in the Prologue. ... It's this voice that puts the satire in Canterbury Tales. Satire is used very well and effectively through out Canterbury Tales. ...

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The Knight The pilgrim I found to be most interesting in The Canterbury Tales was the Knight. The Knight was one of the few pilgrims depicted as entirely good and honorable. ... The Knight shows up in four parts of The Canterbury Tales, and every time he is mentioned it reveals more about what he is like as a person. ... All of the pilgrims, except the Knight, began their tale with a prologue which tells about themselves. ... The other pilgrims in The Canterbury tales respected and admired the Knight's commitment to modeling his life with the qualities of truth, honor, freedom, and c...

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In Canterbury Tales, Chaucer includes and exploits individuals from all walks of medieval society. He uses irony and satire in varying types of narratives to reveal the problematic components of virtually each pilgrim. Unfortunately Chaucer delegated only two of his tales to be told by women, the tales of the Wife of Bath and the Prioress. ... The Prioress is one of the most fully described pilgrims, and it is with her that we first notice the narrator's refusal to judge the value of what he sees. ... Two female characters in Canterbury Tales are not quite typical of their class and...

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The Miller's character stands out from all the others by his use of language, his naughty story he tells, and by the way he is compared to other pilgrims on the voyage to Canterbury (Chaucer, 1319). ... All three factors rule out the Plowman to have shared this tale. ... In conclusion, the reason it is obvious that the Miller told this story was because he clearly stands out from all the other pilgrims; by his use of language, his naughty story he tells, and by the way he is compared to other pilgrims on the voyage to Canterbury. ... The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue. ... Mille...

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