Geoffrey Chaucer

Canterbury Tales Aaron Talton In Canterbury Tales, Chaucer uses the Pardoner and the Prioress to subtlety display what he thinks of the church. The Prioress is after the attention of men. The Pardoner is after money. Chaucer shows the corruptness and hypocrisy integrated into the religious society at the time of the story. He saw the religious society as a corrupt society. The Prioress is a nun that seems to be infatuated with how she …

…do believe that God will bless their money because a man the TV said it would. So it is not that hard to believe that the Pardoner could dope all those people into making them give offering for the same fact of prosperity. Bibliography Works Citied Ashton, Gail. Chaucer. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. Boyd, Beverly. Variorum Editions of Geoffrey Chaucer. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987. Payne, Robert O. Geoffrey Chaucer. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1986.