Reflection of the Middle Ages

The stories relfect the middle ages by acknowledging certain beliefs and ideas carried on during those time.


People were not suprised at death in a few of situations in these stories, seen in the line "this world is now ticklish in truth: I saw a corpse being borne to church today, and just last monday I saw the man going about his business." Death became a common thing during these times because of things like the black plague, people were dieing all the time and when someone could not be found it was often reasonable to think they were sick or dead.


The characters in the Canterbury Tales show the distinction of class and nobility amongst different occupations. Every character in the story has a different occupupation and some have certain respect amongst communities, The reeve for example, although a servent to his own lord, had authority over other servants and was more noble because of this.



Religion is also a huge part of the middle ages. Wars were often waged because of religious ideas and would explain how people were so gullible to ideas revolving around them. In the Miller's Tale, Nicholas is able to tell the carpenter that a flood similar to Noah's Flood was coming and that God was giving them the chance to live by surving it. Along with this, keeping your faith was seen as important and in one point in the same tale, Allison explains that if her husband knew she broke her faith she would surely be killed.