Geoffrey Chaucer
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 appears romantically and physically towards males. 'She was known as Madame Eglantine.' Madame Eglantine was a French lady that was very much associated with romantics. She was very prim and proper. 'From her lips no morsel ever fell.' This could be interpreted that she is the head of her covenant and she wants to represent it well because it would be rather rude if she did have bad table manners. But I think that she was more interested in being gracious and beautiful than being a good representation of her covenant. She also wore a rosary around her arms with small coral beads and from them hung a brooch of golden sheen. The style of day in the secular world was this brooch style. This confers more that she was after worldly things and this does not go along with her supposed
The Pardoner, and the church on whose behalf he acts, is motivated purely by financial greed. This reflects what I believe were Chaucer's thoughts of the 14th century religious aristocracy. Once again everyone would be happy to have the guarantee that they saved from their sins just to pay a small fee. Variorum Editions of Geoffrey Chaucer. Thus he offers a magic "bone" to guarantee God's strength to better they're harvest. People would seem happy to pay anything in guarantee of a good harvest meaning no starvation for his family. The Pardoner and the Prioress reflects what Chaucer thinks about the church at the time. One of the guys who are asking for money and contributions and that if you do God will bless you. Bibliography Works CitiedAshton, Gail. ' Also he went on to build this up even more telling his audience to 'cook the water from the well and you will lose your jealousy for your wife. Their absolute want of money and they stoop to whatever level to do it. One way in which he does this is by asking his listeners if they have done something so awful that they would be scared to go to the confessional and confess it.
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