Explain How The Knight's Physical Appearance In The Canterbury Tales

In the Canterbury Tales Prologue, there is a start of a pilgrimage with many types of people. The destination is to a place called Canterbury, and each pilgrim agrees to tell tales on the travel to help the time pass faster. Before the character tells their tales, Chaucer introduces them. Chaucer’s concept was to explain each character's personalities through their physical appearances. Three characters Chaucer uses description of physical appearance to illustrate their characteristics are the knight, the wife of bath, and the miller.

Chaucer used the knight’s physical appearance to help describe his inner nature of being humble and heroic to readers. The way the knight dressed was in ‘a tunic made from coarse material’(need to cite)which
Woman of her same social class were considered graceful and elegant while she was considered not. People didn’t view her as a graceful woman because she was open with her sexual side and unlike most women of her time she enjoyed it comparable to how men enjoyed it. Also, unlike most women of her time the wife of bath also enjoyed being loud when talking or arguing. The wife of bath was actually the only woman on the pilgrimage who was not a nun. Her physical appearance ‘large buttocks’(need to cite) was considered extremely sexual to her peers. Chaucer said she had a ‘bold and fair face’ which was ‘red of hue’(need to cite) meaning she was bold in what she wore and how she spoke. The wife of bath had a lot of confidence which she showed by showing off body. Her having so much confidence shows how she managed to marry five men. She also had confidence in what she believed. She is a feminist of her time seeing as she should be able to be as sexual as she wants. Her example was if the king can marry so many so could she. She used her sexual being to persuade men and encouraged other women to follow in her