Hi!

Good
Afternoo
n
How’s Life ?
If you are feeling…..

01 02
Happy Sad

03 04
Scared Mad
01 02
Happiness is a choice.
I hope you
Always choose what
makes your heart and wake up
mind happy
feeling
exceptional.
You are
03 04
Don’t let fear or Holding
onto anger is like
insecurity stop drinking poison and
you from trying expecting the
new things. other person to die.
Believe in Loosen up, You’re
better than that.
yourself. Do what
you love.
“It seems to me that poverty is an eyeglass
through which one may see his true friends.”

Awesome words
― Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

Because key words are great for catching your audience’s

attention
GREAT JOB!
 The
Canterbury
Tales
Prepared by: Bb. Nica Joy Carullo
& Nicole Joyce Pacinos
Who is
Geoffre
y
Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
- Father of English
Literature

- London, early 1340s

The Chief
Works of
Geoffrey
Chaucer
 Early Works
• The Book of the
Duchess
• The House of Fame
• The Parliament of
Fowls
Middle
Works:
- Troilus and
Criseyde
- The Legend of
Good Women
 Late Works

The Canterbury
Tales
(Unfinished)
The Canterbury Tales (Middle English
: Tales of Caunterbury) is a collection of
24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines
written in Middle English by 
Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400.
Talks about
different
social issues.
Characters and
Description
The main characters
of The Canterbury Tales 
are comprised of the procession of
the twenty-nine pilgrims
Chaucer

• author of The Canterbury Tales

• reader’s guide
The
Knight
• a "verray parfit gentil
knight"
• the Knight never boasted of
his success.
The Squire
• The Knight’s
son
• "lover and a
lusty bachelor"
The Yeoman
• only servant accompanying
the Knight on the pilgrimage
• true forester
The Prioress
• A piteous and saintly
woman
• a very sensitive
woman
 The Cook
• culinary abilities
• Accompanying
the guildsmen
The Nun's
Priest

• accompanying the Prioress

 The Monk
• immoral and loves the
pleasures of life.
• loves hunting and
women
Second Nun

• companions of the Prioress

 The Clerk
• student at Oxford
• interested in
learning and studies
The Friar
• A wanton and merry
man.
• hardly the
characteristics that befit
a religious man
• clever The Merchant
• sports a forked beard
and wears fine
clothes
The Sergeant at Law

• accomplished
and devious
lawyer
 Haberdasher, Dyer, Carpenter,
Weaver, And Tapestry Maker

• All guildsmen and

experts in their
professions.
The
Franklin
• lives a hedonistic life in
pursuit of pleasure.
 The Physician

• excellent doctor
• motivated by greed
The Sea captain • jolly fellow and an
able seaman
• stealing wine from the
Merchant whose casks
he is transporting.
 The Wife of Bath

• deaf, fat and amorous

• excellent weaver
The Parson
- good clergyman
- self-denial and
charity
 The Miller

• A hefty and strong fellow

The Plowman • Parson’s brother
and a good
Christian
 The
Manciple
• steward of a law school
 The
Reeve
• A slender and
quick-tempered
man
 The Summone
• lecherous and deceitful character
• good fellow
 The Pardone

• A seller of pardons
• excellent churchman.
The Host

• he proposes the
story telling
contest
 Yeoman

• Arrives at the
end of the
journey along
with his master
Settings:
In the Middle Ages, pilgrimage was a social as well
as a religious event and the only time when people
from differing social classes could mingle together.
 Themes:
The major themes are: critique of the church, the
problem of predestination and foreknowledge,
themes of the inherent corruptness of human nature
and decline of moral values, the problem of the
position of women and marriage relationships,
themes of honor and truth, and themes of Christian
Mood:

The prevailing mood of "The

Canterbury Tales" is obviously that of
comedy.