"The Canterbury Tales"

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This paper reviews "The Canterbury Tales," written by Geoffrey Chaucer. The paper offers a unique perspective on the people and traditions of the medieval era. The paper examines the characters of the book, providing insight into the traditions of love, romance, courtship, and marriage from the male and female perspective. The paper observes that these ideas do not always agree with each other and that they sometimes do not fit into our perceptions of what life was like in Chaucer's time.

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"Chaucer had an incredible insight into the human character and it seems as though he had a real inspiration when it came to his pilgrimages to Canterbury. M. H. Abrams asserts that from his house in Greenwich, Chaucer "might have been able to see the pilgrim road that led toward the shrine of the famous English saint, Thomas a Becket" (Abrams 92). It is also interesting to note that while the word pilgrim might connote good and gentile people, Abrams states that "Medieval pilgrims were notorious tale tellers (liars, according to the austere of London), and the sight and sound of the bands riding to Canterbury may well have suggested to Chaucer the idea of using a fictitious pilgrimage as a 'framing' device for a number of stories" (92). John McGalliard agrees with this idea, adding that Chaucer was "in harmony with the traditional institutions and patterns of medieval civilization" (731)."

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