The Cantebury Tales is a collection of good stories, a snap shot, and a .
picture frozen in time of the Middle Ages. Geoffrey Chaucer often known as the .
father of English poetry gives us a look into life in the Middle Ages. The .
characters in the story pass many of the same characteristics of modern people. .
The Merchant, the Skipper, and the Franklin are much like certain people in .
today's society.
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The Merchant is much like a trader on Wall Street " he was an expert at .
dabbling in exchanges." (P.112 line 288) The Merchant is a finely .
dressed man wearing a multicolored dress. Stockbrokers today must wear .
the finest suits and look respectable to their clients so they can sell as .
many stocks as possible at a premium price. The Merchant made it seem .
like he was very wealthy "his wits to work none knew he was in debt." .
(P.112 line 290) People who trade stocks today may one day be on top of .
the world and the next day owe everyone an amount of money. The .
Merchant cheated people by negotiating them out of their money, stock .
brokers cheat by giving away stock tip to their friends and families and .
selling their own stock before the market crashes so they make out with a .
large amount of money. Like the market today the market during the .
Middle Ages changed everyday and the people working it had to know .
how to work it the Merchant and that stock broker know how.
The Skipper like Captain Ahab from the classic novel Moby Dick .
is a proud man in all things he does. " As for his skills in reckoning his tides, .
currents and many other risks besides moons, harbors, pilots he had such dispatch .
that none from the hull to Carthage was his match." (P.115 line 411) The .
Skipper takes no prisoners; also Ahab takes no prisoners he is only after one thing .
the great white whale and he wants no other whales but that one. The skipper is a .
man with some physical characteristics much like the physical appearance of .
Chaucer Geoffery Chaucer's exact birth date is unknown. How ever it is estimated that his birth-date runs between 1342 and 1345, and his death in the late fourteenth century, early fifteenth century. The following is history during his time which most likely influenced his writing and thoughts. ...
Geoffrey Chaucer depicts different aspects of medieval English society through his use of various characters in his work, The Canterbury Tales. ... Each characters tale reflects various aspects of Chaucerian society. ... The Wife of Bath's tale opens with a Knight raping a young woman. ... The Pardoner bases his tale on the consequences of greed and deception. ... The social, moral, political, and religious issues that Chaucer depicts in The Canterbury Tales, are still prominent in the Twentieth Century....
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories in a frame story written by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. ... Unfortunately, his project was never finished, thus, the tales were never complete. One of the many tales is that of The Squire's Tale. The tale is an adventure with elements of fantasy similar to the Knight's Tale ¬ not surprising, for the Squire is the son of the Knight ¬ but with a less bombastic tone and elements of magic. ... The Squire's Tale begins at Sarai, in the land of Tartary. ...