Cantebury_Tales

Cantebury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer depicts different aspects of medieval English society through his use of various characters in his work, The Canterbury Tales. The characters he uses are all unique in their occupations, attitudes, and social status. Each characters tale reflects various aspects of Chaucerian society. Many of these problems are still evident in today’s society. The Wife of Bath’s tale opens with a Knight raping a young woman. Sexual assault is still a substantial problem facing the world today. In using the Knight, Chaucer shows that no one is above such a horrific act of violation. It still is a prominent issue in the twentieth century that many people must face and learn to overcome. All to often, people are judged by appearance or status in life rather than what is really important. Chaucer displays this issue through the Knight not wanting to fulfill his responsibilities to the old woman. It cantebury, tales, society, people, through, knight, chaucer, woman, tale, status, characters, young, various, twentieth, tales, social, prominent, often, looks, issue, greed, depicts, chaucerian, century, canterbury, aspects, world, work, wife, wealthy, wealth, wanting, violation, values, using, unique, turns, today’s, today, tend, takes, substantial, strive, society, shows, sexual, responsibilities, religious, reflects, really, rather, raping