The Canterbury SMACKDOWN, Final (Unless There's a Tie)

[angevin2]

In the last round, the Knight trounced the Summoner, the Wife of Bath hung on to beat the Miller, and the Pardoner just squeaked by despite a valiant late-round effort by Chaucer and Sir Thopas. And now it's time for the final round, a three-way showdown between the three remaining pilgrims. This is it, friends: we've taken the fruyt, lat the chaf

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[capriuni]

Well, this has been fun...

...But:

This is only how semi-random people on LiveJournal would vote.

According to the story itself, the only people voting for the winner was the Canterbury Pilgrims themselves. What I'm wondering is: taking into consideration the characters' biases and quirks, whom do you think they would have chosen as the winner?

[angevin2]

Oh, I don't know! I think they'd mostly just get drunk and argue. ;)

[capriuni]

LOL! Probably true. I imagine Chaucer realized that, too...

[lnhammer]

ObNewYorkerCartoon: a plump medieval woman on a horse talking to a man on another, caption "I'm the Wife of Bath, but you can call me Bubbles."

---L.

[liseuse]

If I owned a handkerchief I would be wringing it right now. Umm? Oh, this is hard.

*clicks Knight and runs away*

[gillo]

For me it's a toss-up between the storyteller (Wife of Bath every time) and the story. I went for the Pardoner because the story is such a perfect little parable. And the Pardoner is so revoltingly honest about himself too.

[lareinenoire]

I'm afraid I need to be completely unoriginal. ::clicks the Wife of Bath::