In the canterbury tales, chaucer goes to a hotel and encounters pilgrims. The pilgrims agree to tell chaucer two stories on the travel. But before they start to talk about the stories, chaucer describes the pilgrims in physical detail revealing their inner nature. Three of the pilgrims that chaucer described their inner nature are the Wife of Bath, the Monk, and the Clerk. These specific pilgrims are described in a unique way. In the story chaucer begins to describe each pilgrim, the Wife of Bath is one of them. He describes her as a beautiful women at that time. She seemed to be a professional wife due to the fact that she has been married 5 times already. She has practiced the art of love. She presents herself as one who loves marriage, but how we see is it as she takes pleasure in rich attire. She is described as beautiful at this time of age. She is deaf in one ear and has a gap in her front teeth. Making her the most beautiful women around. Her confidence struck the reader “The clothes she wore, and the way she acted displayed her bold sexuality.” …show more content…
Appropriate monks devote their life on work and study and have nothing that comes their way. But he is describes as something different. He controls his own life and does not abide by the rules. His devotion is to hunting and eating. He travels the world to find better meanig. The monk is mostly described as a rebel due to the fact that he does not abide by the rules of “Saint Benedict” which demanded that they devote their lives to “work and