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Use our free chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis of The Canterbury Tales: General Prologue & Frame Story. It helps middle and high school students understand Geoffrey Chaucer's literary masterpiece.
The General Prologue begins with a description of how April's showers cause flowers to bloom, crops to grow, birds to sing, and people to want to make pilgrimages – journeys to holy places. In England, people especially like to go to Canterbury to pray at the shrine of a holy saint who healed them when they were sick.
The pilgrims, eager to have fun on their journey, quickly agree to the Host's proposal and swear oaths to abide by the rules of the game. After a bit of shut-eye, they ride out of Canterbury the next morning and the tale-telling begins. Almost immediately, a pilgrim challenges the Host's authority.
A group of pilgrims have gathered in a tavern just outside of London in preparation for their journey to Canterbury. There, our narrator Chaucer meets them and becomes one of their fellowship. This is the situation that leads to all the rest of the action.
5. After introducing the pilgrims, the narrator apologizes for which of the following? -> For going on and on and on True False
Among the Canterbury pilgrims we see varying versions of, and motivations for, friendship, ranging from similar interests to greed to obligations of friendship that are very different from those of...
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Chaucer describes the Pilgrims gathered at the tavern in Southwark. So many of Chaucer's pilgrims are not what they appear or what, in a perfect world, they would be. The Pardoner pretends to be a holy man intent on saving souls with his relics; in reality he's a money-grubbing liar.
