Geoffrey Chaucer was a poet that wrote about the monk and the prioress and he wrote the Canterbury tales. He was an Englishman that wrote stories and tales. He was born around the year 1340

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    Geoffrey Chaucer was a poet that wrote about the monk and the prioress and he wrote the Canterbury tales. He was an Englishman that wrote stories and tales. He was born around the year 1340 and Chaucer died in October 1400 and was buried in Westminster abbey. The Canterbury tales were a group of stories from pilgrims on the trip from London to Canterbury, to visit the shrine of St Thomas Beckett. Each pilgrim told a story and Chaucer put them into a book. He wrote poems called the prioress and the monk. They were not normal for the time they lived. Through these characters Chaucer is criticizing the Catholic Church. He shows that they go against what they normally would do in their jobs. Chaucer lived in the 14th century when Norman Barons still controlled parts of England. During Chaucer’s time there was the plague and the hundred year war. Chaucer was taken as a captive during this time and the king personally paid for his ransom. Around about three million people were living in England at the time and eight million people are currently living in London which is one city out of many. People in those days were poor and whatever people could grow is what they usually ate, so they lived off of the fat of the land. There were lots of diseases and many people unemployed even if they were able to work they chose not to. This essay focuses on two of the thirty pilgrims mentioned in the prologue: The Monk, and The Prioress.

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   The prioress was called Madame Eglantine which is the name of a flower when she should have been named after a saint or something or someone out of the bible. She had a beautiful face and she smiled simply and modestly. She had a posh accent and could speak fluent, elegant French. She had impeccable table manners, she never let anything fall from her lips and she neither did she dip her fingers too deep into the sauce. She would shed a tear if she saw a mouse caught in a trap. She had a few dogs and ...

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