Chaucers Canterbury Tales - Chivalry by the Knight and the Squire Essa

Different Perspectives of Chivalry by the Knight and the fop in Canterbury Tales In the medieval period that is described by Chaucers Canterbury Tales, valiance was perhaps the most recognized quality of a true Christian gentleman. This quality is explored in Chaucers two characters of the warrior class, the Knight and the Squire. The Squire is in circumstance the son of the Knight both ride gallantly and have the pass around of true gentleman warriors. However, the two are very dissimilar disdain their appearances. The Knight possesses the true qualities of chivalry, devotion to service, constancy in humility, and honesty. The Squire possesses no(prenominal) of these qualities truly, instead his demeanor is a shell that encloses a less upright constitution. Although both claim the same vocation, the Squire and the Knight display contradicting attitudes in respect to dedication, material possessions, and sincerity. The most recurrent point in the verbal description of the Kni ght was the abundance and importance of his battles, while it was the least mentioned aspect of the Squire. opus the entirety of the Squires military exploits are named in two lines, he had seen almost service with the cavalry / In Flanders and Artois and Picardy., the list of the Knights battles clearly dominates the text of his description, run for many lines When we took Alexandria, he was there . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . In Lithuania he had ridden, and Russia, No Christian man so often, of his rank. When, in Granada, Algeciras sank Under assault, he had been there, and in northwestern Africa, raiding Benamarin In Anatolia he had been as well And fought when Ayas and Attalia fell... This pass... ...o some level boastful, lusting, or superficial. The Squire was never directly criticized by Chaucer, but the implications that resulted from the description amounted to an extravagant, un-chivalrous image, a reflection of the actual knights of Chauc ers day. Because of the reality of the corruption that was portrayed by the Squire, the true and complete chivalry portrayed by the Knight was unknown. Therefore, it follows that Chaucer was non merely comparability two knights and delineating the virtues that comprised chivalry, but in a grander intelligence was re vealing many of the corrupting point of humanity by comparing the fundamental difference between the reality of our humanity with the ideal of perfection. flora CitedChaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces. Ed Mack, Maynard et al. W. W. Norton and Co. New York, NY. 1992.