Chaucer's Social Class

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In the General Prologue Chaucer had many characters he used to describe and reflect on the social classes of the medieval society. He had characters that went anywhere from the highest to the lowest class. For example he described the Doctor, the Woman and the Skipper. He described the Doctor by telling how he was smart, talked well and had a reputation for being a good doctor. He also described his clothing in derail telling about his clothes being blood red and being made of fine silk. He also described how he was mainly in it for the money. The doctor showed how even tho he was high class and had lots of money he was only in his job and on the pilgrimage for the money. The woman he described as being being a good one at getting married.

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