Tale Of A Canterbury Tale

For this assignment, my group chose The Monk's Tale

In the prologue of The Monk's Tale, the host and the monk start talking and really begin to hit it off, so the monk promises to tell the host the life story of Edward The Confessor, but instead tells several different tragedies. He told stories of Lucifer, Sampson, Hercules, Nabugodonosor, Cenobia, Bernabo Visconti, Ugolino Of Pisa, Nero, and Holofernes.

Chaucer's point of having the monk tell all these tales is to give a lesson to the readers and the characters not to put trust in blind prosperity, and that fortune and success is fickle and that it can change at any time.