In his general prologue, Geoffrey Chaucer introduces all his characters to the reader. He writes that there was a group of people who met, and they all, by coincidence, went to Canterbury. In the General Prologue, it is written: "About twenty-nine in a company of various people who then met in company, and they were pilgrims all who intended to ride to Canterbury." The Canterbury Tales is a collection of the stories each of these characters tells during the journey. There is a wide assortment of characters. There are men and women of the Church. There are upper class people with wealth and power. There are working class blue collar workers. Interestingly, all different types of people get to have fun and tell each other their stories. Some of these characters just make me cringe. Some of them seem like someone I could get along with, or even remember myself. My three favorite characters from the General Prologue are the Monk, the Skipper, and the Miller. First off, Monaco seems like a pretty nice guy. The first thing I like about him is that he is a monk. I respect monks. It must be difficult for monks and nuns to give up so much to serve God. Unlike some other people in the Canterbury Tales who claim to be religious, the monk is actually a good person. The Pardoner disgusts me with his hypocritical stories. The monk, however, seems to be true to his word. Another thing that makes me appreciate this character is that he is a big, strong and virile man. Usually, what comes to mind when you think of the word “monk” is a thin, bald, silent and gloomy boy in a bathrobe. This is not the case with this monk. He likes to hunt. “Hunting was his sport. A virile man”, is in… middle of the paper… to be told. The skipper is one of those people. The story he tells is probably extremely inappropriate and may have nothing to do with the skipper's travels, but it sounds like I'd like to hear it. It's been everywhere. "His beard in many storms trembled, and he knew all the ports as they were, from Gottland to the Cape of Finisterre, and every stream of Brittany and Spain." The Monk is a nice guy because he seems to have a totally different personality than the cliché monk. He's a tough kid, but he's still a good person and doesn't use his physical abilities to do evil things. The Miller is one of my favorites because he is a mischievous boy and does what he wants. It's huge and strong. He plays the bagpipes. If all that wasn't good enough, it's a red. Chaucer's General Prologue quoted from Works