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Canterbury Tales

Canterbury Tales

Chaucer wrote about many personalities and their triumphs and inadequacies.The Knight is portrayed as an ideal persona. He is a part of the Feudal system. The impression that I get is one of am older weathered soldier. He is modest of his cultural status. I think that after the wars and battles that he fought he might not want to talk about them and he may even be guilty of them. He wore older clothes. They were not as fancy as he could have worn. He portrays the chivalry element of the bunch. He is religious and also courageous:Who from the day on which he first began / To ride abroad had followed chivalry,Truth, honour, generousness, and courtesy. (44-46)
He traveled many places over great distances to fight at almost all of the important battles. Chaucer calls him a perfect Knight: "He was a true, a perfect gentle-knight"(68). He owned fine horses that were a symbol of wealth at that time, but he did not show this wealth outwardly in his clothing......


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