Chaucer wrote about many personalities and their triumphs and inadequacies.The Knight is portrayed as an ideal persona. He is a part of the Feudal system. The impression that I get is one of am older weathered soldier. He is modest of his cultural status. I think that after the wars and battles that he fought he might not want to talk about them and he may even be guilty of them. He wore older clothes. They were not as fancy as he could have worn. He portrays the chivalry element of the bunch. He is religious and also courageous:Who from the day on which he first began / To ride abroad had followed chivalry,Truth, honour, generousness, and courtesy. (44-46)
He traveled many places over great distances to fight at almost all of the important battles. Chaucer calls him a perfect Knight: "He was a true, a perfect gentle-knight"(68). He owned fine horses that were a symbol of wealth at that time, but he did not show this wealth outwardly in his clothing or adornments.
The Knight's son is somewhat his opposite. He d
The Oxford Cleric was an odd scholar. He had a skinny horse and he looks hollow. His clothes were worn thin because he spent all his money on learning. He took money from his friends and spent it on more knowledge: Whatever money from his friends he took / He spent on learning or another book (303-304) The only thing he cared about in his life was studying.
The wife of bath was deaf. She made long scarves and traveled. In church she did not like anyone to go in front of her in church. She wore red maybe because she had five husbands, but they were all alright with the church. She went to the holy land three times before and then wanted to go to another holy site. She had large hips and tries to hide them. She also knew how to cure diseases of love.
And, at its very tip, his nose displayed A wart on which there stood a tuft of hair Red as the bristles on an old sow's ear. (556-559) He was a stupid man who wrestled and broke down doors with his head although he was very good at stealing grain from people. He could tell its worth by one to
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