The anti-antifeminist Chaucer in The Canterbury Tales Written during the fourteenth century, The Canterbury Tales, by portraying the Christian pilgrimage, represents the medieval lives of noble and lower class. ... Rich in the worldly wisdom, therefore, he on the one hand satirizes the wickedness and hypocrisy of humanity by means of the presentation of The Canterbury Tales. ... "The Knight's Tale," "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale," "The Miller's Prologue and Tale," and "The Clerk's Prologue and Tale," for example, grant a close sight to the marriage and male-...

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The Knight The pilgrim I found to be most interesting in The Canterbury Tales was the Knight. ... 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. The General Prologue tells us about how courageous and chivalrous he was. ... "As we recognize from 'The Knight's Tale', the ideal of gentillesse, constancy and devoted service which courtly romance holds up invites serious respect from poet and audience alike." ... All of the pilgrims, except the Knight, began their tale with a prologue w...

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Alex Jerome November 9, 2002 Characterization of the Squire In The Prologue from the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer constructs a portrait of the main characters. The Squire is one that Chaucer describes in the Prologue. ... One of the main ironies in The Canterbury Tales is how most of the people from the church are dishonest and unfair. ... Chaucer stated that the Knight, "from the day on which he first began / to ride abroad, had followed chivalry"(119). ...

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