Character Analysis Essay of "The Canterbury Tales"Considered one of the most interesting and famous writings of literary work, "The Canterbury Tales" by Geoffrey Chaucer deals with of five different social groups. Every social group is made up of characters who can be considered ideal and realistic and characters who can be considered the exact opposite of this. Chaucer's incredible analysis of each character's personality allows the reader to determine whether a character is convincing or objectionable. Based on Chaucer's analysis of each character, the most ideal characters in The Canterbury Tales are the ruling-class knight, the middle-class Oxford cleric, and the peasant-class peasant; however, each social group also has a character who does not live up to the ideal established by the model character in each group, for example the squire in the ruling class, the doctor in the middle class, and the captain in the peasant class. One of the characters the most ideal of the ruling class is considered the Knight. The knight's character is summed up by the narrator when he observes that: "There was a knight, / who from the moment he began, / to ride, loved chivalry, / truth and honor, liberty and courtesy." The Knight was a truth-loving gentleman and preached freedom and equality. The Knight is embarking on a pilgrimage to go and thank the saints for preserving his life through his battles because he fought over 15 battles in the Crusades and was victorious in all of them. The Knight's kind and genuine personality made him one of the most respectable characters in the story. However, the knight's son, the squire, was exactly the opposite of his father. It doesn't have... half the paper... and character. The Skipper is definitely a character that does not reach the ideal characteristics of a character like the Plowman who is very calm and kind. Plot development in “The Canterbury Tales” relies on character development and establishing ideal characters as opposed to characters who fail to be an ideal character. Chaucer carefully gives each character certain aspects that a character from a certain social group should have, but he also adds unique personality traits to each character that help develop the stories of each of the characters. Each character's story reciprocates the personality traits displayed by them. Geoffrey Chaucer does an excellent job of distinguishing the characters in this novel and this allows the reader to automatically decide which characters can be considered true and ideal, rather than false and exaggerated..