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The Knight (The Canterbury Tales)
The Knight from the Canterbury tales was a soldier for the king who fought in many battles and jousts.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SparkNotes: The Canterbury Tales: Analysis of Major Characters )〕 He usually fought in battles to different countries to try convert the whole nation to Christianity.〔 The main goal for these Crusades at that time were to recapture Holy Land from the Muslims. His social standing, along with his son, The Squire, was high due to their aristocracy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Prologue )〕 As explained before, The Knights duty as the kings servant was leading large crusades to defeat people from non-Christian lands.〔http://thebestnotes.com/booknotes/Canterbury_Tales/Canterbury_Tales36.html〕 Although we seem to know that the Knight is one of the most likable characters in the story, Chaucer fails to tell us about the Knights origins or why he became a knight to begin with. Nevertheless, The Knight still has a lasting good impression on first time readers. In this day and age, The Knight would be a solider serving his country instead of serving his king.
== Prologue ==
The Narrator begins his in depth explanation of each character with the Knight. In lines 43-47, the narrator tells us the knight is chivalrous and valiant, and an honorable and noble servant to his king. Line 55 tells us the Knight was a great warrior. Lines 67-72 tells us he was the perfect knight and even though he was playing a "villain's part", he always did right. In lines 72-78, the Narrator tells us that the Knights attire, although having a beautiful horse, wasn't the best. He had on an old tunic and rusty coat of mail due to all his expeditions. The Narrator couldn't stress it enough that the Knight was just the perfect gentleman; he was valiant, honorable, gentle, giving, truthful and courteous. The language of English has changed a lot from the Middle Ages to now as seen from the many variations and translations of the Canterbury tales. For example, chivalry was spelled chivalrie, knight was spelled kynght, Russia was spelled Rucen, Christian was spelled Cristen and the Mediterranean Sea was known as the Grete Sea.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chaucer: The General Prologue - An Interlinear Translation )〕
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