In the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer portrays many aspects of the lives of people in the medieval era. He shows that there is more to someone than his or her class. This is especially true in his portrayal of the clergy in the general prologue and in the tales themselves. In the days of Chaucer, when the Christian church was the driving force behind most the political and moral decisions, to be part of the church …showed first 75 words of 1037 total…

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