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This paper examines the three estates, or castes that Geoffrey Chaucer pokes fun at in his 13th century book. Bibliography lists two sources.
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was horror. His bold outlining and broad farce of the three classes of society that seemed to be prevalent during England in the late 1400s as well as his
more bawdy references repulsed, even as they titillated. These days, The Canterbury Tales are regarded as humorous farce and an interesting take
on the times of the England of seven hundred years ago. Once a reader gets beyond the "Olde English" that was Chaucers way of writing, one finds a droll storyteller
who isnt afraid to use farce and satire to talk about life as it really was. This particular paper focuses on Chaucers
prologue, which introduces the story. In this prologue, he discusses the three main castes or social classes of the times. The three social classes, or "estates" that Chaucer describes
in the prologue to The Canterbury Tales are the clerics, the knights and the peasants (which grow into the mercantile class). Chaucer manages to poke fun at each class in
his own way as he talks of each of their pilgrimages on their way to Canterbury, even while, on the surface, he offers a great deal of respect for all
the classes. The prologue describes each character and framework of each story. Upon inspection, none of the characters are complementary - Chaucer manages, in his own way, to paint the
picture of a knight who is afraid of his own shadow, a priest who doesnt know the meaning of the word abstinence, and a lady of the upper classes who
behaves like a lower-class common prostitute. The Canterbury Tales are basically stories made up by people who happen to stop by
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