The prologue to the Canterbury Tales was written in Middle English (closely related to Modern English but derived from the Middle Ages). The Canterbury Tales is a collection of over 20 tales by Geoffrey Chaucer from the 14th century. The stories were designed to enable pilgrims to recount the long pilgrimage from Southwark to Canterbury Cathedral at the shrine of the late St Thomas Becket. Chaucer tells us of a group of guild members he sees on the road to Canterbury in the Prologue of the Canterbury Tales. Furthermore, Chaucer gives us a description of the members of the guilds, how they act, and their personalities and beliefs, even if he did not fully understand or know them. Some members of the guilds were portrayed correctly. Chaucer described the knight as a "worthy man" who "loved chivalry, truth, honour, liberty, and every courtesy." He was also "honored everywhere for his dignity." The knight fought in multiple crusades. ( ) Among all the characters in the Prologue, the knight was portrayed close to his work. In real life, knights were tasked with leading troops and leading the king's army. A knight also served as the king's right-hand man as well as being the king's friend. The knight dedicated himself to activities such as archery, chess or horse riding. Although the knight would not normally enjoy these tasks, he would happily complete them to spend time with the king and fulfill his knightly duties. The knight also acted as the king's advisor and gave his advice or opinion on the king's decisions. The knights were also responsible for acting like a modern police officer. They would manage the citizens of the kingdom and help them in farming. They would also be the kingdom. The monk was also a very forgiving man. He “let go of yesterday's things,” meaning he forgave people's wrongdoings done to him. He went against the Bible when it says that "hunters are not holy men." He was a good man with his horse and enjoyed hunting rabbits and riding and jumping his horse "fast as a bird". He had greyhounds and spared no expense on his hunting equipment. He wore "sleeves...trimmed to the hand with a beautiful gray fur, the finest in the country, and on the hood, to fasten it to the chin, he had a pin of beaten gold cleverly fashioned; in the lover's knot it seemed to pass." The "lover's knot" should not be worn due to the oath of chastity and the rules of remaining sexless and relationship-free. So these are examples to which the monk was not loyal to the church and did not fulfill the duties of the monk. He was a well-dressed, fat, bald man, with a greasy face, who never seemed to stop looking around a chapel bell", which is ironic due to the fact that the monk is supposed to stay close if not stay in the chapel, not pilgrimage to Canterbury Chapel. He lives as a lord or a man of a higher class than a clergyman or a holy man. The fact that the monk is able to indulge in a very expensive hobby such as hunting, shows that he is trying to behave or appear as if he were an aristocratic figure. Chaucer tells us that the monk knows what he should do