The pardoner The Canterbury Tales is the story of a group of different people, who are grouped together in their way to pilgrimage. ... The author of the Canterbury Tales describes him so well that the reader can easily see the picture of how he looks, and how he behaves. ... The Pardoner's characters are revealed through the description of Chaucer in the general prologue (appearance and thoughts), as well as through the Pardoner's word in the tale prologue, and finally through the tale he tells. ... The second way that reveals the characters of the Pardon is his own words in ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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. ... 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 General Prologue provides a profile of each of the pilgrims in such an order that forms social groupings. ... The Maunciple came from a ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, written in approximately 1385, is a collection of twenty-four stories ostensibly told by various people who are going on a religious pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral from London, England. Prior to the actual tales, however, Chaucer offers the reader a glimpse of fourteenth century life by way of what he refers to as a General Prologue. In this prologue, Chaucer introduces all of the characters who are involved in this imaginary journey and who will tell the tales. ... Chaucer gives to the knight one of the more flattering descriptions in the Gener...

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• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 860
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The stories conveyed in The Canterbury Tales are observations on certain facets of the Church described by Chaucer. ... His concept of the Church is revealed through an array of religious figures and how certain characters deviate from their expected pious responsibilities. ... These behaviors of the Nun are unconventional as nuns are to restrain from physical desires. ... He endorses sinners to pay him for pardon when they cannot express regret for their immoralities "In settling disputes he could help, Not like a friar from a cloister" (Chaucer 258-259). ... Chaucer does not rev...

• Word Count: 676
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate