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Canterbury Tales
Title: Canterbury Tales
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 559 | Pages: 2.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales - The Knight
Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, written in approximately 1385, is a collection of
twenty-four stories ostensibly told by various people who are going on a religious pilgrimage to
Canterbury Cathedral from London, England. Prior to the actual tales, however, Chaucer offers
the reader a glimpse of fourteenth century life by way of what he refers to as a General Prologue.
In this prologue, Chaucer introduces all of the characters who are involved …showed first 75 words of 559 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 559 total…such as the knight existed even in
the fourteenth century. As he does with all of his characters, Chaucer is producing a stereotype in
creating the knight. As noted above, Chaucer, in describing the knight, is describing a chivalric
ideal. The history of the Middle Ages demonstrates that this ideal rarely was manifested in actual
conduct. Nevertheless, in his description of the knight, Chaucer shows the reader the possibility
of the chivalric way of life.
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