Chaucer's narrator describes characters from all walks of life and a range of social positions. Does the narrator appear to hold more favorable views of people from one class or background over another? Use at least three of the characters from the General Prologue in your response. Your answer should be at least 250 words.
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However before the storyteller goes any further in the story, he depicts the conditions and the social status of every traveler. He portrays every one thus, beginning with the most astounding status individuals. Chaucer's voice, in re-telling the stories as precisely as possible, completely vanishes into that of his characters, and in this manner the Tales works practically like a show. This self-evaporating quality is critical to the Tales, and maybe clarifies why there is one explorer / pilgrim who isn't depicted at all up until now, yet who is unquestionably on the journey - and he is the most interesting, and the most imperative by a long shot: a writer and statesman by the name of Geoffrey Chaucer.
In the General Prologue we get to see that Chaucher actually introduces us to all of the pilgrims, which is a great place for us to understand his opinions on the pilgrims.
It is quite undestandable that Chaucer likes the Parson, Oxford cleric and the Knight. Chaucer tend to like the Parson and he was also one of the clergy members that he did like.
Chaucer liked the Cleric due to the fact that he liked his studies and was not at all wordly in nature.