Essays on The Canterbury Tales

What is a Pilgrimage? Do you think Pilgrimages Still take Place? A pilgrimage is that you go to a place which is important in your believe. Like a certain church or mosque. In this story it is the Canterbury cathedral. Usually people come from far…

Although you typically think of religious figures being moral compasses, in The Canterbury Tales, the church officials were often seen as corrupt; bribing and coercing people to obtain money for the church under false pretenses. Since members of the church were not allowed to work…

In the Prologue of “The Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath gives a complicated picture of a medieval woman to the readers. As it explains how the Wife of Bath is shameless about her sexual exploits since she makes use of her…

The Queen’s Lesson In The Wife of Bath’s tale, from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, a knight who has committed a terrible sin is let off by the King, per the Queen’s request, and given to her to deal out his punishment. Instead of doing the…

“My jolly body shall a tale tell, and I shall waken all this company; But it shall not be of philosophy, nor of physic, nor termes quaint of law; There is but little Latin in my maw.” So writes Geoffrey Chaucer, in the prologue of…

Explicit themes such as sex are commonly explored by many authors in English tradition. Due to the topic of sex being considered controversial and taboo, sex as a motif can easily attract and engage a reader. Not only is sex an intriguing and entertaining topic,…

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Knight Geoffrey Chaucer’s famous poem the Canterbury Tales, follows a motley group of twenty-nine pilgrims on a pilgrimage to the Canterbury Cathedral to pray to St. Thomas a Beckett. Each pilgrim is to tell four tales; two on the way to the Cathedral…

The Canterbury Tales A Crazy Little Thing Called Love In a language there are innumerable words: countless variations on letter arrangements contrived to express anything imaginable. But a word cannot capture an object’s life or passion until the person seeking to understand its meaning has…

Introduction The Merchant’s tale is the 10th tale of the Canterbury tales which was preceded by the Clerk’s tale. The Merchant’s tale is as Chauncer would have it, a story about one of his fellow travellers. The Merchant was marked out as a successful foreign…

The Canterbury Tales in Society Today Geoffrey Chaucer re-examines the stereotypes and roles in society in the 1300’s in the collection of stories, The Canterbury Tales. To bring issues into light by discussing different stereotypes and separates them from the social norm, Chaucer gives his…

During the medieval period, short stories were one of the many forms of literature that had risen in popularity. Yet, in order to be one, a short story must have five elements–a setting, a character, a conflict, a plot, and a theme. During this time,…

Five C’s Two With the gothic ideology on the rise and moving across Europe the Catholic church was influencing every aspect of human life. Pilgrims were crossing countries in order to arrive in the holy land and mankind believed in the actions giving them salvation….