Essays on The Canterbury Tales

 In his “The Canterbury Tales,” Geoffrey Chaucer was able to put his stories into a group of pilgrims. Him doing this had created an opportunity to produce a set of character that had provide both psychological and social observations in English literature. Geoffrey Chaucer had...

‘The General Prologue’ of the infamous Canterbury Tales by English poet and author Geoffrey Chaucer is essentially a rare insight into the reality of those living in middle ages England. In the general prologue, Chaucer presents himself as an objective observer, this gives the reader...

Avarice is the ultimate mechanism for diluting a compassionate man’s generosity, driving him into corrupt practices. These effects of greed are developed through Geoffrey Chaucer’s, The Canterbury Tales, in which he implements various forms of mockery to reveal loss of ethics. Chaucer satirizes human life,...

The Prioress, Madame Eglantine, is given a very detailed description in “The General Prologue” of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. Being a clergy member, she is part of the First Estate, and by that law, it is to be assumed that she is afforded a certain...

 The character Wife of Bath of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is one of the most memorable characters in the story for her “modern” critical thinking of patriarchal society (Grappe 1). She has often been considered a true feminist figure because of her thoughts and...

Geoffrey Chaucer went against tradition in the Middle ages. Instead of writing in French he wrote in Middle English. Chaucer was considered the Father of the English Language because he opposed the norm and chose to draft in the language of the people. In The...

Geoffrey Chaucer is the well-known poet of 14th century. He depicted all the possible realities of his era through his writing, so he is also known as a realist. He observed the world with a sharp and keen eye. He collected minute details about everything...