... variety of occupations and class status. The three class stations in Chaucer's time were the clergy, the nobility and everybody else not in the first 2 groups. To wit in the Canterbury Tales we have a monk "A MONK ther was, a fair for the maistrie," (line 165 General Prologue) representing clergy, a knight " A KNYGHT ther was, and that a worthy man," (line 41 General Prologue) as nobility ... General Prologue are the very people who soon will be telling their stories with other characters in them. Chaucer's description of each character tells us something about the character's personali...

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