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Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Character Analysis of The General Prologue's Pilgrims - Prof. , Resúmenes de Idioma Inglés

Universidad de Granada (UGR)Idioma Inglés

An analysis of various characters from geoffrey chaucer's the canterbury tales, specifically from the general prologue. The characters include knights, squires, yeomen, clergy members, church officers, bourgeois, good men, and other pilgrims. Each character is described in detail, highlighting their social status, virtues, vices, and unique characteristics.

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- Chaucer's General Prologue-
The Pilgrims
Military: Knight (35 lines), Squire (21), Yeoman (16)
Clergy: Prioress(44), Monk(43), Friar(61)
Church Officers: Summoner(45), Pardoner (45)
Bourgeois: Merchant (14), Clerk (23), Sergeant of the Law (21), Franklin
(29), Guildmen (18), Cook (8), Shipman (22), Doctor Of Physic (33),Wife
of Bath (31), Miller (21), Manciple(19), Reeve (35)
Good Men: Parson (51), Ploughman (12)
1 The Knight
- Virtous character: humble despite his prowess and undefeated record
at war.
- Top of social scale
- Chivalrous code of behaviour
- Travelled and fought widely for Christianity south of Spain, nothern
Europe, southern and eastern Mediterranea.. mid 14th
- Fight for his lord
- Clothes stained from his profession
- Goes pn pilgrimage to offer thanks for his safe return from military
campaigns
2- The Squire
- Youth, lover, enthusiastic
- Fights for his lady (across the English Channel; military raids on
French ports)
- He is a candidate for knighthood
- Good son
- Embroidered with fresh flowers like a meadow!
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  • Chaucer's General Prologue-

The Pilgrims

Military : Knight (35 lines), Squire (21), Yeoman (16)

Clergy : Prioress(44), Monk(43), Friar(61)

Church Officers : Summoner(45), Pardoner (45)

Bourgeois: Merchant (14), Clerk (23), Sergeant of the Law (21), Franklin (29), Guildmen (18), Cook (8), Shipman (22), Doctor Of Physic (33),Wife of Bath (31), Miller (21), Manciple(19), Reeve (35)

Good Men: Parson (51), Ploughman (12)

1 The Knight

  • Virtous character: humble despite his prowess and undefeated record at war.
  • Top of social scale
  • Chivalrous code of behaviour
  • Travelled and fought widely for Christianity south of Spain, nothern Europe, southern and eastern Mediterranea.. mid 14 th
  • Fight for his lord
  • Clothes stained from his profession
  • Goes pn pilgrimage to offer thanks for his safe return from military campaigns

2- The Squire

  • Youth, lover, enthusiastic
  • Fights for his lady (across the English Channel; military raids on French ports)
  • He is a candidate for knighthood
  • Good son
  • Embroidered with fresh flowers like a meadow!

Know how to sing, dance, play instruments, make verses, etc. (following the amour courtois

Gets on well with wealthy landowners and rich women whre he had

permission to beg.

  • Married young women free (listener probably realised that these women had been his mistresses)
  • Used his powers for granting absolution when he knew he would be repaid with a good meal.
  • Could play the harp and enjoyed festivals and singing
  • Preferred to be acquainted with inn-keepers and barmaids than with lepers and beggar-women as the latter could not help him rise in his profession.
  • Dressed well.
  • His name was Hubert.

1 The Merchant

  • Worked in the prosperous wool and cloth trade between England and Flanders
  • Smartly dressed in a Flemish hat and neatly fastened boots
  • Lent money and exchanged French coins, both against the law at the time
  • Mysterious/discreet: Chaucer does not know his name.

1 The Clerk

  • Another churchman, a model university candidate for Holy Orders and a student of philosophy.(he is in minors orders)
  • Used all oney he could get from his friends on his university fees and buying books (not on clothes, the fiddle or the harp, nor on food for his horse or himself- he looks hollow)
  • Loved learning and teaching.

Knew a good glass of ale when he tasted one.

  • Pity (Chaucer says) he had as ore on his leg. Excellent cook

1 The Shipman

  • Master of the ship called the Madelaine
  • Not a good rider.
  • Steals wine (Bordeaux trade) from the merchant who pays him to convey and protect it.
  • When he captures pirates makes them walk the plank.
  • Skilful mariner.
    1. The Doctor Of Physic
  • An expert practitioner, had studied medicine and surgery but also astrology, which helped the medieval doctor = knew the right moment for making the talismen which would help his patients recover.
  • Ate sparingly.
  • Saved the gold he received during the epidemics of plague, because gold is a heart-tonic in medicine.

1 The Wife Of Bath

  • Deaf
  • An expert weaver, superior over the cloth-makers of Ypres and Gaunt.
  • Would allow no one to take precedence of her at the offertory.
  • On Sundays wore head coverings which must have weighed 10 pounds.
  • Birght red stockings, shoes soft and new
  • Ruddy countenance, attractive though her teeth were too wide apart.
  • He had five husbands: looking for a sixth one (despite her age)

Rode her horse confortably, she was used to being a pilgrim. Had been to

He ground the corn for the villagers but took three times the money he

An unintelligent fellow, he repeated Latin tags from documents when he

was drunk.

  • Yet his man had all the young people of the neighbourhood under his thumb and he was their adviser in all things.
  • His headgear is as large as an alehouse sign and he carries a loaf of bread as a trencher (symbols of physical appetite, showing that appetite becomes gluttony).

1 The Pardoner

  • The Summoner's friend. They were two of a kind.
  • Had come from Rome direct to London with a wallet stuffed full of pardons and indulgences, ready for sale (he is the most corrupt of the pilgrims)
  • Sings a popular love-ditty and the Summoner sings the accompaniment in a terrible voice.
  • Long yellow hair hung over his shoulders, he wore no hood.
  • He sold relics to the ignorant clergy who believed his tales.
  • He was a fine preacher, read the lesson well but his speciality was singing.

1 The Host

  • Manly appearance.
  • Outspoken but well bred and excellent at amusing his guests.
  • Made the proposal that the travellers

1 Chaucer the pilgrim

  • Social pilgrim: enjoys company
  • The narrator is not the same as the author.
  • Gullible narrator: uses superlative for all pilgrims
  • He includes himself as part of the petty bourgeois as a joke.