... . It becomes a double narration, where Chaucer creates this pilgrim who tells the story of a great pilgrimage to Canterbury. There is no longer a creator of the poem, simply a speaker, a character who has his own characteristics and repeats what he sees. Despite its subtly, these traits expose the pilgrim Chaucer. Each of the stories in The Canterbury Tales are to be told with the utmost accuracy, suggesting Chaucer's literacy. ?Whoso shal telle a tale after ... money. Chaucer's biased descriptions reflect his own personality, maybe a bit of favoritism. The General Prologue provides a pr...

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... General Prologue). There are 29 pilgrims, Pilgrim Chaucer and the Host. This assemblege of 31 pilgrims then would make for a total of 124 tales. Chaucer creates a diverse collection of characters. The pilgrims represent a wide 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 character based on the story he or she tells. (like the Wife of Bath's ). Chaucer tells us much about each pilgrim, not onl...

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