Chaucers The General Prologue Essay -- Chaucer General Prologue Essay

Chaucers The everyday PrologueChaucer-the pilgrim starts aside The General Prologue with detailed descriptions of each pilgrim as he views them. When Chaucer-the pilgrim arrives at the Pardoner, he becomes very focused on his physical appearance and what is appears to be missing. There is something odd about this Pardoner and Chaucer-the pilgrim cant seem to grasp just what that is. He describes that the Pardoner is all on put down to do is job, just arriving from Rome (Bretful of pardon, come from Rome al hoot). However, his elan to Pardon those for God does not help his physical appearance in any respect. Chaucer-the pilgrim describes his voice as that of a high-pitched goat and points out that he has no facial hair and will presumably never have any, as his face is just as smooth as if he had recently shaved (A vois he hadde as small as hath a goot / No beerd hadde he, ne nevere sholde have / As smoothe it was as it were ripe yshave). Chaucer-the pilgrim is setting up in the readers mind that of a prepubescent boy, yet as the reader knows there are no children on the jour...