Canterbury Tales
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Throughout The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, there are pilgrims mentioned on a journey to Canterbury. Each one of these pilgrims belongs to different social classes that they are separated by. The main reason for this separation back then was type of job, and occasionally money. Compared to todays society which is mainly separated solely on money earned by your occupation, yet The Canterbury Tales is somewhat similar. In modern times we have three distinct social classes: upper, middle, and lower class.
Upper class contains individuals such as: doctors, dentists, lawyers, accountants, professional sport athletes, CEO, FBI agents, the President, jewelers, and actors. These types of individuals all possess the qualities of money they have either earned, or in most cases inherited through their family. Some of these people have just invested their money wisely, or may have invented something major that earned them the money. People such as doctors, professional sport athletes, and CEOs have had to work to where they currently rank in the class. Doctors had to study hard in school and college to earn their degree to be allowed to help people. Athletes had to train hard from the time they were little to help prepare them for what they now do. Their training allowed them to get to where they are today, which includes making millions for playing sports, for the sole purpose of entertaining people. Some CEOs, like Steve Jobs, invented something that has helped other people do things a lot easier. They have created products that people want to buy, and buy large sums of, thus making the CEO rich. Other people, like the President may have been born into a family that was into politics and had an upper hand in practicing and studying the politics. Plus they already have a name for themselves with their family being in politics before their birth.
Middle Class individuals could include: bakers, salespeople, teachers, nurses, waiters, hairdressers, cooks, construction workers, principals, or electricians. These types of people must work hard pretty much every day to maintain where they currently are in the world. They make average amounts of money over the course of a year and some are lucky to make ends meet. People like teachers, principals, and nurses must constantly work to maintain their money. Once school ends though, they must then find another job in order to keep on living their life the way they had been working in a school. These are the types of people that should earn a lot of respect because of how much they work and how hard they work.
Finally, the lower class, the bottom of the barrel people: janitors, McDonalds employees, prostitutes, crack heads, hobos, lunch ladies, garbage men, gas station attendants, cashiers, and dish washing people. The lower class individuals may have never tried to be more than what they thought they could be. Or maybe they just didnt care as much to