When we read and experience any literature we tend to favor or identify better with certain characters over others. When telling a story, in a film, in a novel, we choose the subjects who are depicted in the text and see them in a different light than the other characters. Chaucer's general prologue gives us an excellent opportunity to select the characters we like because of the large quantity he places before us. In the story the group is on a pilgrimage to Canterbury and the characters will take turns telling a story that will present a certain moral. Reading this text three individuals are easily distinguished from the others, they are those who do not seek the worldly things that their life could offer them, they are the Prioress, the Cleric of Oxford and the Parish Priest. Each of these characters consider themselves capable of offering more to the world and understand that there are more important things in this life than personal gain, they represent kindness, knowledge and religion and live their lives in such a way that they are seeking those virtues and not material things. The Prioress is the first character introduced in the prologue who will seek to improve others and not just herself. Many people wish it was in their nature to be kind and sensitive, but it's not a trait most people are born with, it takes constant work and practice. The Prioress, in the sense of kindness and charity, is the kind of person we could often be. “And appear dignified in all your dealings. As to her sympathies and tender feelings, she was so charitably thoughtful that she cried if she saw a mouse caught in a trap, if it were dead or bleeding. And he had little dogs that he would feed ro... paper... since, once we learn about them, we will begin to evaluate their character and decide our opinion of them. Chaucer's General Prologue gives us a great opportunity to criticize many different forms of human beings. The Prioress, the Cleric of Oxford and the Parish Priest all express traits much better than those of other individuals, they represent things that many people do not see as very important but for those who truly wish to be good people they are the most important. The traits of kindness, knowledge and religion each find a way to be expressed in Chaucer's General Prologue and if we look closely we will identify how important these qualities are. It is interesting to study different works or literatures to see the kind of characters each of us tends to gravitate towards, whether those characters are similar to ourselves or the people we would like to be.