Three Honrable Pilgrims
Three Honrable Pilgrims
Geoffrey Chaucer was the greatest English poet of his time. Besides William
Shakespeare no other writer has surpassed Chaucer's achievements. One of his best
unfinished writing, "The Canterbury Tales" rankes as one of the world's best work of
literature. In "The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales" Chaucer presents a cross-section of
Medieval Society through his discriptions of people representing the court, the church and
the common people. In Medieval Society, just like in modern day society, there were people
of different moralities. The knight the Parson and the Plowmen are examples of good
people who possessed honorable characteristics.
The Knight in this pilgrimage is a representative from the Court class which was at
the top of Medeval Society. He was wealthly but he didn't want to impress anybody. He
truly had all the charactoristics of an ideal knight. As a Christian, he loved thruth and as......
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