The Great Portrayal of Women

If someone were to look up the word woman in the dictionary they would get some thing similar to this: “an adult female human being. (Microsoft Encarta) There are also many other words to describe a woman from today’s words like chick and girl to back in the middle ages and medieval times when women were known as maidens or damsels. For many years women have not been viewed as equals to men up until the last century, and yet the role of women in society is still constantly changing. Geoffrey Chaucer gives his readers a slight glimpse into the life of a few women of the medieval society in his collection of stories known as The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer portrays the men and women of this time period quiet accurately. Chaucer gives his readers a glimpse into the lives of: a nun, a monk, a friar, a lady known as “the wife of bath“ and a group of merchants and their wives. While letting the reader into the lives of these people Chaucer makes quite a bit of a difference in the way...