Chaucers Lessons in the Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is a story of nine and twenty pilgrims traveling to Canterbury, England in order to visit the shrine of St. Thomas A. Becket. The General Prologue starts by describing the beauty of nature and of happy times, and then Chaucer begins to introduce the pilgrims. Most of Chaucer’s pilgrims are not the honorable pilgrims a reader would expect from the beautiful opening of the prologue, and instead they are pilgrims that illustrate moral lessons. In the descriptions of the pilgrims, Chaucer’s language and wit helps to show the reader how timeless these character are. Chaucer describes his pilgrims in a very kind way, and he is not judgmental. Each of these pilgrims has a trade, and in most cases, the pilgrims use their trade in any possible way to benefit themselves. By using our notion of stereotypes, and counter stereotypes, Chaucer teaches us many moral lessons about religion and money.

Chaucer’s moral lessons start while he is introducing the pilgrims. These pilgrims are not from the same social stations in life, and instead they range anywhere from a rich lady from Bath to a drunken miller. It is nice to think twenty nine people with differe

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Approximate Word count = 1753
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)