These characters resemble and reveal the author’s purpose by showing how they interact with each other and how you would be if you were in their shoes. Also how lower classes are compared to upper classes. Like if you were a monk you were supposed to be shone and heavily isolated in the outside world to often. If you were a monk you would be …show more content…
Today kind of relates from the very rich and wealthy to the barely making a living but doing okay, to having nothing but cigarettes. We relate and originate from Chaucer's time in way but we also came along way of changing. There are still plenty of types of flaws though. Like such of the Miller or the Doctor. The Miller is a strong boaster, a liar, a thief, and a pro stealer. In reality he was just one huge douchebag. Meanwhile the doctor was good, he was a real healthy guy, but he was also really greedy. He cared for his money way more then anything else. Chaucer’s story also gives a different point of view based on characters we thought we knew but who were actually not that mental image we created. For example the Prioress Nun (Madame Eglantine) who was suppose to be your little average good perfect girl who worshiped and only worried about god. Meanwhile she was by far not little but fulombtious, she was by far more slutty than perfect, and she worried about her jewelry as much as god. She does have good manners but she uses them on men which she is seen as a Nun who does not participate with men. So it's a definition of behind the scenes in Chaucer’s time