It is very interesting to go into details and study about Chaucer society from different aspects. During the era of the fourteen century, Chaucer society valued things, such as religion, and lost the value for things, such as, the hero aspect that we used to see in Beowulf. People didn't all live an equal life, but rather, they were divided into groups.
             Chaucer was born into Great Britain's middle class in or around 1343, but then placed in an aristocratic home as a page. This allowed Chaucer to understand the affairs of upper class-and middle-class, as well as their relationship to the lower-class. Because of this, he had an ability to uniquely write about those in all social ranks with humor and accuracy, while also reflecting the society's changes. He was also very well educated, which was not typical of his era, especially having been born into the middle-class family.
             The Canterbury Tales is set up so that each pilgrim tells a story on the way to Canterbury. Although he started it around 1387, he did not finish it before his death in 1400's. Although unfinished, many of the tales were complete and remain one of the world's greatest writings of all time. Not only does Canterbury Tales reflect the way in which societies roles were changing within the elite, but also the ideas regarding religion during the fourteenth century. Canterbury Tales is about a pilgrimage. This in and of itself addresses the importance of religion to England's society during this time. Justice defines pilgrimages as a journey that Christians took to the tomb of a Saint which many of those on this pilgrimage were members of the clergy. This gives the modern historian a better understanding of how those who worked within the church were viewed and also what was valued within these men and women during this time.
             From the beginning of Canterbury Tales, he shows how the younger generation was beginning to reject the old way of...