CHAUCER
In Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales there are twenty-nine plus one characters. ... Analysis of the Doctor’s Character Geoffrey Chaucer has created a wide variety of characters in “The Canterbury Tales”, in order to explain the status of the existing classes in the society of his own time. ... 73), Chaucer portrays the doctor as a man of great knowledge, yet his knowledge on medicine is based on astrology, which is a science that would be of no help when it comes to curing patients suffering from different diseases. As we advance in Chaucer’s description of this particular character, it is obvious that the doctor was not interested helping his patients, rather he was more concerned how much money would he be able to earn from them. ... Before getting into any details, it is important to realize that in Chaucer’s time education was not a primary concern for society in general.