What Role Does Williams Play In The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer was the English writer of the book titled The Canterbury Tales. The Canterbury Tales is an incomplete collection of stories told by different members of a group of pilgrims on their way to, and from, Canterbury. One of these pilgrims, a Parson, is said to be a kind, considerate man. If I had the opportunity to choose an actor to play as the Parson in a movie, I would choose Robin Williams. I would choose Williams to play the Parson because of his roles in Good Morning, Vietnam, Dead Poets Society, and Good Will Hunting. I believe that Williams’s personal life would help him be a good Parson. Like the Parson, Williams knew what it was like to be poor, at least as a child, after his father left his family with the family’s money. Williams was also Episcopal, making him more like the Parson by being religious. Both the Parson and Williams were

In Good Morning Vietnam, Williams portrays an Air Force DJ who risks everything to help a Vietnamese teenager escape from U.S. troops he had been bombing because he believed the teen was a good person that had been misled; the care and forgiveness that Williams had his character show, I believe, is the kind that the Parson would give as well. In the movie Dead Poets Society Williams plays a teacher that teaches his students to believe in and be themselves while also being enthusiastic about learning. I believe that Williams could bring the Parson this element of his character that other actors may have trouble making a reality. Robin Williams also starred in the movie Good Will Hunting as a psychiatrist that helps a wayward stranger find himself and move forward from his dark past; Williams would put the kind, helpful nature he gave the psychiatrist into the character of the Parson who “neglected not in rain or thunder, in sickness or in grief, to pay a call” (Lines