LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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The merchant
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The knight
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The prioress
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The plowman
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Clerk is the character in The Canterbury Tales that best represents this class.
Detailed explanation-2: -And Chaucer’s interest in middle class characters, such as a cook, carpenter, miller, lawyer, merchant, clerk, physician reflects the rise of the middle class in the fourteenth century (Collin 1).
Detailed explanation-3: -Chaucer presents the Merchant as a not entirely honorable man. He is a flashy dresser, in part to obscure his financial troubles from his money-changing activities. He bases his complaints about his wife on a mere two months of marriage, surely not enough time to develop any reasonable opinion.
Detailed explanation-4: -In multiple stories Chaucer showed the rise of the middle class. The rise can be seen through the characters and their experiences in their tales. Through the setting and the characters, the Cook’s Talk and the Miller’s Tale are accurate examples of the rising middle class.