Whos who on

The Roadtrip to Canterbury

You will find below all the pilgrims mentioned in The General Prologue in the chart below. Answer the following: 1. 2. 3. Pilgrim Job description They have done nobly in The Knight
his sovereign war, ridden to fighting, and followed chivalry.

What do they do for a job? Im looking for an explanation, not just an obvious word or a phrase. Give two superficial details with line numbers of what the traveler looks like, how they are acting, etc. (In other words, something we can obviously see about the person.) Explain what kind of person the pilgrim is by interpreting their actions and visual details. (For example, if they are dressed in expensive clothing and acting flirty, what kind of person would you think of them as? Why?) Two Superficial Details
1. P 118, 76 Fine horses. but he was not gaily dressed 2. P118, 77 He wore a fustian tunic 1.

Chaucers Characterization Honorable, courage, loyal, humble, trustful

Squire

People who are like servants which are entertainers Attendant, like servant, farming

people happy and exciting from his 2. P 118, 96 singings and dancing He knew the way to sit a horse and ride. 1. P 118, 105 He organized and prefer battles

P 118, 94 He was as fresh as Is the month of May.

He likes to make

Yeoman

Prioress

Helping people, manage of animals, sing a service, prayer

This Yeoman wore a coat and hood of green 2. P 118, 111 His head was like a nut, his face was brown

Monk

Praying meditating, doing tasks, preparing medicine for people Leaving their priories,

P 1. 119, 156 & 157 Faithful to god, value life Her nose was elegant. her eyesdeeply(weep when she saw animals glass-gray; Her mouth was very dying), have sentiment and tender 2. small, but soft and red heart, well-mannered P 119, 162 She wore a coral trinket on her arm Not as faithful as nun, they are 1. P 120, 202
2. P120, 204 He was a fat and personable priest 1. P122, 242 His neck was whiter than a lily-flower 2. 123, 277 & 278 P His eyes would twinkle in his head as brigh t As any star 1. P123, 282

His head was bald and shone like looking-glass

little bit selfish, do what they want and move for reward, strict & hardworking

Friar

spreading religion they have to the others

Buying and selling Merchant

goods, trader/exchanger

Clerk

Student, studying philosophy, leaning and teaching

Speaking for clients at Sergeant-at-Law

St. Paul's. A member of superior order of barristers Managing the land they own like checking audit, every entry

a wanton one and merry. A Limiter, a very festive fellow, so mellow, so glib with gallant phrase and well-turned speech, beggars They are confident about their Upon his head a jobs, speaking up stately in Flemish beaver hat their opinions, pursuits, and 2. P123, 283 on his feet dalntlly buckled negotiation, serious and boastful boots 1. P 123, 298 Not socialized, he doesn't care about people or religion he was not too fat a lot, only caring of P 123, 301 2. He had found no prefermentlearning things, selfish and rude at money especially in the church 1. P 125, 338 & 339 Proud of their own He wore a homely partiintelligence, they are colored coat Girt with a almighty, wary and discreet 2. silken belt of pin-stripe stuff
1. P125, 342 White as a daisy-petal was his beard. 2.

A sanguine man, high-colored

and benign, so wealthy, prefer to spend a lot of money for his own stuffs and food

Franklin

P 126, 367 & 368 A dagger and a little purse of silk Hung at his girdle. white as morning milk.

Pilgrim Haberdasher (et al)

Job description Working in a shop and

selling small articles and sewings, a dyer carpenter and a weaver

Two Superficial Details

1.

Chaucers Characterization Looking at their appearance

and not focusing on personality They like to entertain people with the meals they made.

P126, 375 Trim and fresh

Cook

Cooking the meals which are or should be tasty

2. P126, 386 To be called "Madam" Is a glorious thought. 1. P126, 396 2.

he should have an ulcer on his knee

Ship from one place to Shipman

another and carry goods and people like prisoners

Doctor of Medicine

Look over patients and give medicine and surgery

1. P 126, 401 In a woolen gown that reached his knee. 2. P126, 404 The summer heat had tanned his color brown. 1. P127, 449 & 450
In blood-red garments. slashed with bluish-gray and lined with 2. taffeta P127, 448 He did not read the Bible very much

Confident; have a lot of high skill like reckoning tides and fighting, ignoring the nice rules of conscience Gentle and patient to
patients, using charms like the lucky hours, know about medicine and surgery a lot, having special love for gold

Wife of Bath

Parson

Plowman

1. P 128, 468 Bold was her face. handsome. Worthy and strong and red In hue 2. P128, 470 She'd had five husbands. all at the church door A holy-minded man of good renown and 1. P129, 505 Learning God and preaching, poor but rich in holy thought and Upon his feet. and in his showing a fair behavior and work, Never contemptuous of Sinful hand a stave drawing men thus to Heaven and 2. men, never disdainful,never too their Savior proud or fine. But was discreet in teaching and benign. Thrashing his corn, digging or 1. P130, 555 manuring or making a ditch, Honest worker, good and true, He wore a tabard smock and helping the poor for love of living in peace and perfect rode a mare 2. Christ charity, loving God best with all his heart and mind

Making cloth

Miller
Graining grain

Manciple
Going to and watching market precisely and buying victuals

1. P130, 582 He wore a hood or blue and a white coal 2. P130, 575 His mighty mouth was like a rurnace door. 1. P587 & 588 he was never rash whether he bought on credit or paid cash 2. P130, 592 an illiterate fellow 1. P131, 605 old and choleric and thin 2. P131, 635 & 636
He wore an overcoat of bluish shade And rather long

Physically powerful, quite

noisy, having master-hand at stealing grain

Wise and clear-sighted even

though they are no welleducated

Reeve

Farming and managing animals

Wise and trustworthy

Summoner

Person who sends message to others to let them notice to appear to a place

Pardoner
Singing and preaching

Host
Person who receives guests at home

1. P131, 642 had a fire-red cherubinnish face. 2. P132, 684 He wore a garland set upon his head 1. P133, 704 he had bulging eyeballs. like a hare. 2. P133 695 This Pardoner had hair as yellow as wax. 1. P134, 773 His eyes were bright, his girth a little wide 2. P134, 777 He was a merry-hearted man

Gentle and kind, but heavy drinker and will speak untrue

Cruel, convince others to pay or give money to them

Gentle and kind to his or her guests, let the guests sleep in their bed, good food to eat