Chaucer and Gender in the Canterbury Tales.

Lee A. Zito The women of the fourteenth century were expected to be beautiful, dainty creatures just as in any century. But with the religious outlooks that are presented in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales it seems as though women spent a huge part of the fourteen century apologizing for Even and original sin. In many of the stories that deal with women, young women are punished, abused, taken advantage of, or brushed aside and assumed to …

…women characters are at fault. With his proclamation of blamelessness for ideas expressed in the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer was able to rebel against all of society and their ridiculous roles and rules. He utilized his character's emotions to express his own emotions. Chaucer kept his view real in the sense that he wrote his characters in the way that society viewed them, but in doing so he was able to show us our own mistakes.