The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

"tabard smock"Poor

1940

He's brawny, burly, big-boned, red-haired. He has a wart at the end of his nose with bristle growing from it.His nostrils were black as well as wide.His mouth was like a furnace door.He wears a blue and white hooded coat. He has a sword and a bucklet at his side

Living a simple life, hard- working, honest, charitable, pious, responsible because he is prompt in paying his tithes, positive man.

He is a man of 16 stones (=101,6 kg)He is wrangler, buffoon and dishonest. He tells filthy tavern stories. He boasts about tearing a door from its hinges. He is a wrestler"A thumb of gold"

English Literature

Physical Appearance

Personality

The Plowman

The Miller

Social ClassLowPeasants

The Miller's ability is that he plays the bagpipe

He wore a tabard smock and rode a mare

"He was an honest worker, good and true, Living in peace and perfect charity,And, as the gospel bade him, so did he, Loving God best with all his heart as himself repined At no misfortune, slacked for no content for steadily about his work he wentTo thrash his corn, to dig, to manure or make a ditc; and he would help the poorFor love of Christ and never take a pennyIf he could help it, and, as prompt as any, He paid his tithes in full when they were dueOn what he owned, and on his earnings too."

Plowman= a symbol of the poor and was associated with great virtue.He was idealised by Chaucer