Friar In The Canterbury Tales

Chaucer “The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales” In Chaucer’s “The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales”, four characters Chaucer spoke of, he had discussed the qualities he valued and the ones he deplored of these few individuals out of many. The Friar, Wife of Bath, The Shipman, and The Franklin have very different backgrounds and lives, so Chaucer has a different view on each one. The Friar was a man who was respected by anyone with who he came in contact with. He was a member of the religious community or the holy order. A man of what could be a possible speech impediment or lisp, and his eyes twitched or continuously blinked. He was a strange physically fit man and did not wear normal clothes as the monks. He was a man of much compassion.

She held herself up as a strong woman who could do what she wanted. The Wife of Bath was a cloth maker (high quality) of the middle class who had done very well at her job. She was known as being a business woman and very knowledgeable; wore colorful clothes and scarlet stocking shoes, and is a church goer. The woman has a specific figure that includes wide hips, skinny legs, and a gapped tooth also meaning she was “over-sexed”. The Wife of Bath travels plenty and has visited Jerusalem, Rome, Spain, Cologne, and Boulogne, and rides horses. Although having many great qualities, what seems to be a wonderful figure, and a wonderful travel life, she has been married many times. Five times have been in the church, and her first marriage was at the age of fourteen. The reason why she has been able to have such an “extravagant” lifestyle as a middle class woman is she kept marrying older men, and none seem to survive the marriage. She was known to be a lusty woman. Page 249, in The Tale paragraph it states, “the tale expresses her views about relations of the sexes, her wit and humor, and her