In The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer, the narrator clearly admires the knight, who exemplifies the virtues and honors that a medieval knight needed to possess. The narrator describes that he was a “worthy man.” The knight valued chivalry, truth, honor, freedom and respect; these were often considered a part of...

Before TV and the Internet existed as forms of entertainment, there existed Chaucer. In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer’s diverse group of individuals, share tales to pass the time on their journey to Canterbury. Similar to modern-day talk shows that focus on popular topics, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales focus on topics such...

The Canterbury Tales is a set of 24 stories written during the fourteenth century by Geoffrey Chaucer in Middle English. The Canterbury Tales is widely considered as Chaucer’s magnum opus. The plot of the stories is about a band of pilgrims who travel together from London with the end goal...

The storyline was developed and advanced in an anthology of twenty-four stories that depict the role of religion as the source of mutualism and amicable existence within the human domain. Precisely, the author is an English man named Geoffrey Chaucer who published the book in 1387 (Edwards 92). Effective analysis...

In The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer uses a number of important rhetorical devices such as imagery, symbolism, allegory, satire, setting, genre synthesis, etc. Chaucer’s book opens with the General Prologue, in which the writer describes the appearance of each of the characters. While describing various people, the author makes allusions...