... 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 a man, He moot reherce as ny as evere he can Everish a word, if it ... and the Yeman serves the Knight. The next seven have religion in common and the list goes on. These groups and their descriptions further reveal Chaucer's personality. An Haberdassher and a Carpenter,/ A Webbe, a Dyere,...

• Word Count: 1187
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

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, ... , 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...

• Word Count: 942
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School