There are some characters in “The Prologue Canterbury Tales” that represent the middle-class society or working class. It seems that he belongs to the middle class, actually by the character of Ploughman Chaucer paints the life of the working class. As we know that Chaucer portrays “Prologue Canterbury Tales” in each and every class except the baggers and kings and queens. The Ploughman, and Summary inCanterbury Tales indeed, is a revolt against the upper class also because those days the upper-class people did not say compliments about the tiller’s work like that characters have been represented by Chaucer, He is also not a complex character rather he is a simple character, and supposed to be Chaucer’s ideal character, perhaps, the ideal is one from the whole “The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales”.
As The Ploughman’s Character and Summary in Canterbury Tales can feel that he is vacant by worldly wealth but he is rich in holy thoughts same as “The Ploughman’s character” is. Actually, he is a poor man but he is spiritually rich, his soul is an image of Christ. He is also a resemblance to the clerk’s character too. These are characters that we can say that they are ideal characters.
So far as “The Ploughman Character and Summary in Canterbury Tales” is concerned, he is the brother of the parson, having been the brother of the parson the ploughman has the same traits that has his brother too. The ploughman is a man who is called a tiller or farmer. In his working time, he works heartily. The ploughman does not work for only money while he works in the name of God. As a simple man his life is so simple and content and pays his tithes on time and with honesty. He loves God as well as His fellow men. He never ever shirks his hand toward repairing a ditch or digging a ditch in the name of God rather he feels happiness in doing so.
“The Ploughman Character and Summary in Canterbury Tales” is very much apparent and clear, he is not a very minute character rather he is a simple character who loves his job, and is considered to be Chaucer’s ideal character, perhaps, the ideal is one of the whole “The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales”. The Ploughman Character, indeed, is a revolt against the monastic characters as well as secular characters like that The Reeve, The Municipal etc. that have been represented by Chaucer, on the other hand, the friar, the monk, the prioress, the summoner all of them are opposite about him because they are indulged in worldly enjoyment rather he is doing a real practice that the Christ had been told us.
Last but not least the character of Ploughman in Canterbury Tales is an ideal character and loves God and human beings both.
