Canterbury Tales
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The Clerk, Wife of Bath, and the Squire: On the morality scale
The Clerk, Wife of Bath and the Squire in Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer are all complex characters with different levels of morality. The Squire is the most moral, followed by the Clerk, and finally the Wife of Bath. The Squire is a very moral person who strives to live up to his extremely moral father's lead, but is not quite there. The Clerk is fat, and takes money from his friends to spend on learning, but preys for them. The Wife of Bath is the lest moral in that she lusts after more husbands, only marries some husbands for money, is fat, likes material things, and has anger.
The Squire is the most moral of the three here. The Squire has the virtues of faith and hope. He strives to live up to his father's ideals, but is not as moral as he is. He had seen action in the army and done very well. He was courteous, lowly and serviceable, and only wanted to serve his father...