Canterbury Tales
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In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer uses a wide variety of characters that are from different levels of society in early England time. The characters in Chaucer's story ride in a line where the most moral pilgrims are in the front, and as the line progressed back the people would get less and less moral. Three of the pilgrims that stood out the most in moral and social status are the Knight, the Wife of Bath, and the Pardoner.
During the frame story of The Canterbury Tales the Knight is always riding in the front. Chaucer does this to show that he is the most moral of all the characters, In the text it says, "There was a Knight, a most distinguished man, who from the day on which he first began to ride abroad had followed chivalry, truth, honour, generousness, and courtesy." In that one sentence it describes how good of a man the Knight is.
The next to come in line is the Wife of Bath, who rides towards the middle of pilgrimage. She dresses in fine clothes and has had many husbands in the past. She is not the prettiest woman because it says, "She had gap teeth, set widely, truth to say." This shows that she is quit the temptress and likes to get what she wants...