Diana EspinozaMr.KaplanEnglish ELA P624 May 2014Assessment of The Canterbury TalesThe Canterbury Tales is considered one of the greatest works written in Middle English. Geoffrey Chaucer asks all thirty pilgrims to tell stories to see who can tell the most moral and entertaining story. These pilgrims try to tell the best story according to their ability, some do not always follow the script. All the Canterbury Tales have different types of morals and entertainments that these pilgrims express while traveling to Canterbury. In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer uses different types of irony in the main tales, The Pardoner's Tale and Wife of Bath, creating entertainment that helps portray a lack of morality in all the other tales. An example of verbal irony in "The Pardoner's Tale" is when the three drunks hear the doorbell outside and run out and find that their friend is dead, they get really angry and decide to find the person who killed him. They get a very in-depth description of the guy responsible for killing tons of people at once and who is the most dangerous killer. The person who was giving them this description of the killer was an old man with a cane who appeared to be Death. The 3 men were really drunk and as the old man finished his story they kept picking on him and kept asking him where the death was going to end. be next and points to a tree and says, “Under a tree, and there he remained. Even your help didn't do anything to him, Hyde, did you understand correctly? right there innerai fynde," (301-03). After hearing this, they also run to the oak and find a lot of shiny new gold and forget about finding death and focus mainly on the gold and how to bring it back to home safe and sound. They send one of t... half of the paper... blood should be shed."(39-42)P12: Morality and Entertainment of the Wife of Bath: old man (respect and cuckold)- "(respect and cuckold); And I could find authors for this, I imagine. Now, since you say I am old and disgusting, do not fear to become a cuckold; For filth and age, however prosperous I may be, are powerful guardians of chastity .“The Wife Of Bath's Tale” failed to prove itself to be either funny or moral, while “The Pardoner's Tale” was both funny and moral in many ways “The Pardoner's Tale” conveyed many positive messages to readers “The Millers' Tale” lacked morality but was very entertaining, “The Millers' Tale” was very successful in entertaining readers, but not so much in terms of morality..