Examples Of Chivalry In Canterbury Tales

Chivalry is a moral code that knight's honor live their daily lives by. Originating in Europe, it has been the foundation for some noble societies and armies in the late 1100s, such as England, Italy and France.There are many authors that have incorporated chivalry in their stories about knights and the medieval ages. Whenever you read about a knight he is manly, kind, honorable, and very skilled in battle. These depiction of knights are very true and in the late 1100s they were more or less just like how they are depicted in many stories. Authors like Geoffrey Chaucer and Thomas Malory have written many books with chivalry and how chivalry forms the character in their texts. In the general prologue in Canterbury Tales, Chaucer quotes that
Chaucer's book shows the life of a knight including courtly love and also ethical dilemmas that a knight could have and may have faced. There is a deciding point for the knight in the story to where he wants to choose a wife. He had to make the choice of an older wife that would treat him good or a young wife that is an experienced and would treat him poorly. He have had made wrong choices in the past too and he decided to marry the older women because it was morally right. Chaucer did very well at providing chivalric values in that knight in this
In medieval times, the pardoners in my opinion used traits of chivalry. Chaucer wrote another story called The Pardoner's Tale that described a pardoner and his friends finding gold. The Pardoner went off to get some wine to celebrate and his two other friends decide to kill him when he comes back. While the pardoner was walking to get some wine he thought to himself that if he were to poison the wine than he can have all the gold. The pardoner then bought the strongest poison and put it in the wine. He comes back and they celebrate and his friends drop dead and he walks away with the gold. Chaucer decided that at the end of the day that the pardoner was going to be corrupt. Pardoners are supposed to be courteous to others and gentle and nice. Those are some of the traits that you see displayed in medieval chivalry. It is ironic that chaucer would have made the pardoner corrupt because you would think that the pardoner would be kind and noble for his cause. I think Chaucer intended this because if everyone was bad or if everyone was noble and brave than it would not be in interesting