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How What is an effect of Chaucer's decision to use a pilgrimage as the central premise for The Canterbury Tales?

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It provides Chaucer with an opportunity to write about characters that represent a wide range of SOCIAL classes.

Take the Pardoners Tail for example.

The Pardoner describes a group of young Flemish people who spend their time drinking and reveling, indulging in all forms of excess.

or

The Wife of Bath.

The tale concerns a knight accused of touching a woman inappropriately, whose life shall be spared if in one year he discovers what women most desire.

Both of different social class.

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