Describe two of the character from The Prologue (neither of them may be the Pardoner of the Wife of Bath) and explain how they represent the lifestyles of England during the Middle Ages. Make at least two refrences to The Prologue to support your ideas. ... Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, written in approximately 1385, is a collection of twenty-four stories apparently told by various people who are going on a religious pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral from London, England. Beside the actual tales, however, Chaucer offers the reader a glimpse of fourteenth century life by way of wha...

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Chaucer's masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales, reflects a very opinionated view of manners and the behaviors of medieval women. ... To look more closely at the differences we must not go to far, let us look at the " General Prologue." ... We must also note that by being able to travel up the social class from a peasant to a sort of merchant she must also be not without intelligence. ... Chaucer does a great job in depicting these women as though they are from two different ends of the spectrum. ... That he is doing so to educate women through his tale that there are times that women shou...

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In reading Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," I found that of the Wife of Bath, including her prologue, to be the most thought-provoking. ... The tale Bath's Wife weaves exposes that Chaucer was aware of both forms of the medieval soldier. Where as his knowledge that knights were often far from perfect is evidenced in the beginning of Alison's tale where the "lusty" soldier rapes a young maiden; King Arthur, whom the ladies of the country beseech to spare the life of the guilty horse soldier, offers us the typical conception of knighthood. ... The loquacious Aliso...

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Although the stories in the Canterbury tales are fictional, they represent many social issues and provide an intimate view of life in Medieval Europe. ... Throughout the Wife of Bath's Tale and Prologue we as readers acknowledge the fact that this character Chaucer has created is not like the average woman of her time. ... Her independent behaviour and individual beliefs undoubtedly make her stand out from the rest. ... The Wife of Bath opens this passage with "Now, sire, now wol I telle forth my tale" She is introducing her tale in a classic story-telling manner. ... From this, some can ...

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