Canterbury Tales

Canterbury Tales Paper Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales contains many different types of individuals that exist in the Middle Ages. Although these characters lived in the fourteenth century, people similar to them still exist in today’s society. Three pilgrims from Canterbury Tales who parallel people from today are the Merchant, who is closely related to the middle-class businessmen of today; the Nonne, who is much like modern day upper class women; and the Pardoner, who …

…place in time because of the commentary on different individuals that seem to fit in any time or place in history. These are just three of the pilgrims that appear on the story, but all of them can in some way be found in the society of today. Chaucer does an incredible job of understanding and putting into words what lies inside of an individual that applies to people from the past, present, and future.