The Canterbury tales, written during the fourteenth century by portraying the Christian pilgrimage. The Canterbury Tales, represents the medieval lives of noble and lower class. With vivid and realistic illustration of various characters by different professions, the work possesses a deep consideration of human nature.
             Canterbury tales is a group of stories set within a story of a pilgrimage to Canterbury. In medieval time, citizens from varying social groups would gather at the Tabard Inn to set forth there pilgrimage to Canterbury, for the blessings of St. Thomas's Becket , an English martyr. The group ranging in status from a Knight to a humble Plowman, are a sample of the 14th-century English society. Included in the pilgrimage is Chaucer himself. The host of the Tabard Inn suggest that in order to make the pilgrimage more interest they would all tell two stories going and two stories coming back. Who ever told the best story he would pay their way.
             The narrator, Geoffrey Chaucer, meets twenty-nine pilgrims at the Southwark at the Tabard Inn. Chaucer decides to tag along, taking some time to describe each pilgrim. The author uses many metaphors, personal histories, and examples of how they would act in certain situations to fully describe the characters in the story. However, some of the pilgrims are given only a few lines of direct description in a very straightforward, visual manner.
             One of the characters in the tales is Squire, who gets only twenty lines of details, focusing on his appearance, his abilities, and his sexuality. The physical description of the Squire illustrates him as if he was a Roman statue, or taken from a chivalric romance. Chaucer, in his female pilgrimage thought of women as having an evil-like quality, that they always tempt and take from men, untrustworthy, selfish and vain. Through the faults of both men and women, Chaucer showed what is right and wrong and how one should live. Under th...