Chaucer's General prologue and Wife of Bath's Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are about a group of pilgrims that are traveling to Canterbury to pay homage to St. Thomas Becket, ex-Archbishop of Canterbury, current martyr. Chaucer's pilgrims assemble at the Tabard Inn where the host of the inn, suggests that each pilgrim tell 2 tales each way on the pilgrimage "That ech of yow, to shorte with oure weye,In ... this viage shal telle tales tweye" (lines 791-792 General Prologue). There are 29 pilgrims, Pilgrim Chaucer and the Host. This ... assemblege of 31 pilgrims then would make for a tot...

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A Real Woman She is considered one of the most flamboyant and colorful characters from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. "She- is the Wife of Bath. Not only is the Wife of Bath flamboyant and colorful, she can also be considered a feminist, but she also falls into the some of ... Wife of Bath telling that tale to the anti-feminist men in the group of pilgrims, she informs them of the view of women. The Wife of Bath can for sure be considered a feminist in her time and even now. She adds colorfulness and controversy within The Canterbury Tales with her speeches on marriage and women ha...

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... reference, illustrating the ways of life in a culture though stories set in a particular time period. Although the stories in the Canterbury tales are fictional, they represent many social issues and provide an intimate view of life in Medieval Europe. All the pilgrims as individuals represent a wide range of people of the 14th century English life focusing on medieval attitudes and customs in areas ... ...

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