Essays on The Canterbury Tales

The fight for gender equality has been a laborious tasks throughout the centuries. In 1392, Geoffrey Chaucer wrote, “The Canterbury Tales”, an extremely progressive and enlightening collection of twenty-four tales that not only expose the societal differences amongst people, it also discloses the general opinion...

The Christian faith has always placed emphasis on righteousness and truth, condemning hypocrisy as an arrogant and ignorant act. The Bible instructs us to correct our own faults before accusing others of possessing these same flaws, because often our imperfections are much grander. In failing...

The story “The Friar´s tale” is included in the book The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer published in 1387. This story befalls in the period of the middle ages around 1066-1485. This era starts from the fall of the wester roman empire until the Renaissance....

Whether it be religious corruption or the refusal of sanctity within Christianity and the church, The Canterbury Tales often showcases a negative connotation following the word “hethen” when recounting characters seen as faithless. The placement of “hethen” is necessary and specifically used by Chaucer to...