Canterbury Tales 1

Bede

• A time of illiterate people
• Latin Language
• made up of a lot of cities and long days and nights
• study in god and faith
• Migrants inhabited Britain

Canterbury Tales

• a series of tales told on a pilgrimage to Canterbury
• each story is told differently and through different perspective
• Characters have different social classes such as aristocracy, upper class, middle class, virtuous lower class, and degraded lower class
• Tales have a diversity in personalities with roles in society
• the lower class is described in indirect characterization
• the characters tell stories to Canterbury and on the way back and whoever tells the best Tale, decided by the host, gets a free supper paid by all of the other characters

Some Characters

• The knight- honorable and heroic
• The knights son -the same as his dad
• The monk- ironically fat as he was supposed to live in poverty
• The friar- knew a lot of people and was the best beggar
• The merchant- was in debt but didn't show it and he was respected for it
• The cook- selfish man who lacks in morals
• The doctor- good at his job but was more in it for the money. Science and religion at this time crashed and he didn't read the bible
• The host- was a very kind man and gave advice