Canterbury Tales Essay

Holiness and purity, serenity and good will

towards man are general images that the mind portrays of a church and

its members. In Geoffrey Chaucer's collection The

Canterbury Tales written in the medieval time period. Therefore churches were for the poor or the ones truly devoted to the

church and sinners who were seeking forgiveness from their sins. Chaucer portrays disturbingly blunt views and

opinions on the Church and its members and its influence on medieval

society through his characterization of the Monk, the Friar, and the

Prioress in The Canterbury Tales.

The Monk from The Canterbury Tales and "The Prologue",

Chaucer shows the Monk as one of holy men of the church but yet he does not follow

the code of the Church.

The monk takes on the finer things in life than taking a

world of poverty like how monks are suppose to be.

In addition

", he spared for no expense/I saw his sleeves were

garnished at the hand/With fine gray fur, the finest in the land/he

had a wrought-iron cunningly fashioned pin."

(Chaucer 196-200).

The monk only takes the money he receives from

his so called church donations and uses the money for himself and

doesn't use it for its rightful purpose.

The Monk does not follow the code of a true

Monk again.

It does not follow code because he also hunts and it

wrong to hunt and kill a defenseless creature according to the bible.

"hunting a hare or riding at a fence/was all his fun, he

spared for no expense"

(Chaucer 195-196)

so the Monk had not a care in the world of what his

hunting did to his job and he didn't care how he hunted because he

loves it so much.: the monk does not follow the code

of a monk because of his unholy affairs.

The friar from "The Prologue" in Chaucer's The Canterbury

tales brings shame to the church.

The Friar is a beggar and he uses the money all for his

profit and not the churches.

Chaucer describes,

"but anywhere a profit might accrue/ courteous he was

and lowly of service too/natural gifts of his were hard to match/he

was the finest beggar of his batch"

(Chaucer 253-256)

The Friar was a con man he conned the rich to hiring him

for small work for his so called talents which he does not possess and

he cons them into giving him money for the church but truly it's just

for his profit.

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