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A 5 page paper which examines the significance and
importance of money in three tales from Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales.” The tales
examines are those of the Merchant, the Clerk, and the Sergeant of Law. No additional
sources cited.
Page Count:
5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAcant$.rtf
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station socially speaking. While some imagine that they maintain a high social position, most of them are nothing more than reflections of the common man of Chaucers time. They are
individuals who lie, cheat, steal, and generally presume to be more important than they are. In direct relationship to these facts is the subject money or wealth. Three of Chaucers
characters serve to offer us very intriguing and enlightening looks at the significance and importance of money during Chaucers time. Those three people are the Merchant, the Clerk, and the
Sergeant of Law (or the Man of Law). In the following paper we examine elements of each individual as they relate to money. The paper then finishes off with a
discussion of the three combined. The Merchant Without going into great detail, due to lack of space herein, we discuss the Merchant, and the others, through a simple
illustration as is presented in Chaucers prologue which seems to define the individuals incredibly well. In the prologue Chaucer notes that the Merchant: "In motley gown, and high on
horse he sat,/ Upon his head a Flemish beaver hat;/ His boots were fastened rather elegantly./ His spoke his notions out right pompously,/ Stressing the times when he had won,
not lost./ He would the sea were held at any cost/ Across from Middleburgh to Orwell town./ At money-changing he could make a crown./ This worthy man kept all his
wits well set;/ There was no one could say he was in debt,/ So well he governed all his trade affairs/ With bargains and with borrowings and with shares./ Indeed,
he was a worthy man withal,/ But, sooth to say, his name I cant recall" (Chaucer Prologue 270-284). The attitude of the Merchant towards money is clearly one that
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