The general prologue of the story “The Canterbury Tales,” begin in April, as the narrator (Chaucer) begins a pilgrimage from the Tabard Inn at Southwerk to the famed Canterbury, where Sir Thomas a Becket, a martyr for Christianity, is supposedly buried. The General Prologue is a basic descriptive list of the twenty-nine people who become pilgrims to journey to Canterbury, each telling a story along the way. The narrator describes and lists the pilgrims skillfully, according to their rank and status. Noticeably, there is one character who seems to stand out over the others. She is a shy, polite Prioress who is well mannered and proper; wears a fine broach with inscriptions are about love. He clearly and mysteriously describe’s the wife’s background, “She’d had five husbands, all at the church door/Apart from other company in you/No need just now to speak of that, forsooth/And she had thrice been to Jerusalem”(Lines 470-473). Also, the Prologue of the Wife of......

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Title: Wife Of Baths Tale
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