Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales


It may be difficult to imagine that people who lived in this world over six hundred years ago share very close similarities with modern day people. It is hard to believe that six hundred years from now lawyers and doctors will act the same, or share surprisingly similar characteristics. Time may change an abundance of things in our world, but people are people throughout the ages. Sure, some types of people change completely over the course of time. The characteristics of certain types of people may be warped after time has tampered with them, but there will always be types of people with character traits resilient enough to stand the test of time. These ideas may seem incredible, but they are very plausible.

Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales in England towards the end of the fourteenth century. It is a satirical story of a group of pilgrims who are on their way to the...