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The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales

In his introduction The Canterbury Tales Chaucer illustrates for us the characters that will be telling these tales. He creates these characters beautifully, making each unique and detailed. A certain amount of Chaucer’s personal opinions find themselves into this text as well. He takes a noticeable liking to some characters and a dislike to others. To illustrate the former I have to chosen to write of the Knight, and for the latter; of the Friar.
The first line of the Knight’s paragraph is in praise. “There was a Knight,” Chaucer says, “a most distinguished man,” This immediately should alert us of a certain likening. But Chaucer compliments all of his characters, so we must look deeper. Chaucer continues to ...

Posted by: Leonard Herriman

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