The Canterbury Tales: Analysis
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The Canterbury Tales are a series of stories written by the late, great
English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. The tales are about a group of twenty-nine
pilgrims who set off on a pilgrimage to a cathedral in Canterbury, England,
about five miles south of London. The cathedral was a special place. It w ....
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.... There a people from the three main sections of medieval
society ; the church people, the royalty court people, and the common people.
The characters are from the different class structures of feudalism, (a knight,
a squire, a reeve) and open classes which emerge in city scenes such as a
merchant and an innkeeper.
The church class was a nun, a friar, and a pardoner. Chaucer used very
keen detail to make the characters seem lifelike and almost modern in their
personality traits ....
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