Chaucers Lessons in the Canterbury Tales

Chaucer’s Lessons in the Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is a story of nine and twenty pilgrims traveling to Canterbury, England in order to visit the shrine of St. Thomas A. Becket. The General Prologue starts by describing the beauty of nature and of happy times, and then Chaucer begins to introduce the pilgrims. Most of Chaucer’s pilgrims are not the honorable pilgrims a reader would expect from the beautiful opening …showed first 75 words of 1694 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1694 total…to incorporate God in their everyday lives. Chaucer’s style of writing, his use of stereotypes and counter stereotypes really helps the reader to think and learn the moral lessons the characters have not quite mastered. There are many lessons learned here just by the description of the characters, and most of the moral lessons and wit stems from the pilgrim’s taking advantage of their trades whether it is a housewife or a pardoner.