Tabard Inn. The meeting point for the pilgrims in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales was Tabard Inn. It is a small inn located in London, Southwark. Twenty-nine pilgrims met together and started their journey to Canterbury. Where will the pilgrims meet to begin the journey to Canterbury? The framing device for the collection of stories is a …
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30 pilgrims. People in The Canterbury Tales are a group of 30 pilgrims who gather at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, London. They are traveling to St. Thomas à Becket’s shrine housed in the Cathedral in Canterbury for a religious pilgrimage. Why is the group traveling to Canterbury? Many devout English pilgrims set off to …
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During the Middle Ages thousands of pilgrims came on a journey to Canterbury each year to visit the shrine of Thomas Becket to pray and seek help for their problems. Why did Chaucer’s pilgrims go to Canterbury? Answer and Explanation: The pilgrims are on their way to Canterbury to pay respect to Saint Thomas Becket. …
The prologue to The Canterbury Tales is most important because it established the class structure of society in Medieval England. Chaucer uses the genre of estates satire, a genre in which the author describes, examines, and explains the workings of the social order and offers their criticism or humor of that system. What is the …
The Canterbury Tales celebrates the art of storytelling. Each narrator’s personality makes its way into the story he or she chooses to tell. Likewise, the stories we choose to tell and how we tell them speaks volumes about us. Why is it important to study the Canterbury Tales? The Canterbury Tales is considered Chaucer’s masterpiece …
Social Satire The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales is an estates satire. In the Host’s portraits of the pilgrims, he sets out the functions of each estate and satirizes how members of the estates – particularly those of the Church – fail to meet their duties. What is the theme and purpose of the …
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Geoffrey Chaucer himself. The protagonist of the frame narrative of The Canterbury Tales is a literary persona of Geoffrey Chaucer himself. The Chaucer-persona goes to the Tabard Inn to begin his journey to Canterbury Cathedral and encounters a large group of people who also happen to be traveling there. Who is the antagonist in Canterbury …
In The Canterbury Tales, the Knight’s character is ironic. The Knight is portrayed as a sensitive, kind, compassionate, intelligent, soft spoken, well-mannered man. However, the reader is supposed to believe that this same man is a formidable soldier on the battle field who has killed many men during his campaigns. Who was most ironical character …
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The Knight is a generous and courteous man and fights with honor and fidelity, as a hero should. The narrator in The Canterbury Tales also calls the Knight wise and a “… true, perfect gentle-knight” (Chaucer 5). Is the Knight a good person in Canterbury Tales? In Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, the Knight is the …
The rules of the contest were as follows: Each pilgrim would tell four tales for the trip to Canterbury, two on the journey there and two on the way back.. The tales will be judged by the Host for it’s entertainment and moral lessons. What is the format of Canterbury Tales? The majority of The …
