... 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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