Geoffrey_Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer, the author of the “The Canterbury Tales,” shows his views of medieval society through various characters in “The Canterbury Tales.” Chaucer’s expresses his views of society through characters in “The Canterbury Tales.” Chaucer’s views of medieval society are based on his opinions on certain people. Throughout “The Canterbury Tales” Chaucer tends to criticize or praise certain types of people over others. Generally, Chaucer highly criticizes Ecclesiastical people. For example Chaucer greatly criticizes the Pardoner by pointed out that he is a fraud. (Starting line 702 “He said he had a gobbet of the sail…”) The monk is also criticized because he is part of the church but does not follow the rules of the church. On the other hand, Chaucer praises many characters in “The Canterbury Tales.” Chaucer generally praises people that are honest and don’t cheat or rip-off anyone. The parson and the Plowman are probably the two most highly praised characters in “The Canterbury Tales.” These two brothers are praised by Chaucer because they chaucer, canterbury, tales, people, types, characters, certain, views, society, praises, honest, criticizes, writing, various, two, through, techniques, shows, praised, over, others, medieval, lines, highly, greatly, good, generally, example, ecclesiastical, each, different, church, chaucer’s, character, because