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Geoffrey Chaucer was a learned poet remarkably ahead of his time. In breaching the fragile boundaries of society, he was able to create authentic characters whose traits and appearances portrayed more of life's aspects than ever before. From a piece of his unfinished work, The Canterbury Tales: The Prologue, he molds for the reader a figure of significant importance during an age ruled by Christianity. The religious devotion expected of a church official and temptations of a secular life meld to create the Prioress.
As second in command at the Westminster Abbey, the Prioress' character would naturally create a sense of unmatched devotion to God in the reader's mind. A woman described as "Madam Eglantyne" (line 125), "dignified in all her dealings" (line 145), and "so charitably solicitous" (line 147) exemplifies her reverence for the Almighty. Compared to her other descriptions however, these religious connotations are observed minimally. Chaucer relies on the......

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