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Three Honrable Pilgrims

Three Honrable Pilgrims

Geoffrey Chaucer was the greatest English poet of his time.   Besides William

Shakespeare no other writer has surpassed Chaucer's achievements.   One of his best

unfinished writing, "The Canterbury Tales" rankes as one of the world's best work of

literature.   In "The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales" Chaucer presents a cross-section of

Medieval Society through his discriptions of people representing the court, the church and

the common people.   In Medieval Society, just like in modern day society, there were people

of different moralities.   The knight the Parson and the Plowmen are examples of good

people who possessed honorable characteristics.

The Knight in this pilgrimage is a representative from the Court class which was at

the top of Medeval Society.   He was wealthly but he didn't want to impress anybody.   He

truly had all the charactoristics of an ideal knight.   As a Christian, he loved thruth and as

gentlemen, he believed in chivalry and honor.   With so many dishonest people going to

Canterbury,or must have been very irritating to deal with them.   But "He never yet a

barrish thing had said.   In all his life to any , come what might ; He was a true, a perfect

gentle-knight."   He was true to his king and was generous, and courteous.   He didn't wear

flashy clothes. All he wore was a coarse cloth shirt of cotton and linen.   His shirt was

stained with dark smudges where his amar had left it's marks .   The Knight's motivation to

go on this pilgramage is to give thanks to God, because he had survived all of the wars and

battles he had fought in.

Another honerable pilgrim on this trip was the Parson who is representative of

church society. Un like the other religious people on the pilgrimage who claimed lots of

earthly possessions
, the Parson was a very poor priest.   However he was a noble example to

the people of his church.   He was an honest priest...