The upper class started coming down and the lower class started moving up. When they combined they made the middle class.Chaucer is trying to show how the church is corrupt with just saying it and paying the consequences. He tells what people need to know without saying the name of the people that are corrupt this is how he tells that the church and how certain people are looking to help themselves and nobody else. He states that there are people who are good and but they are people us like us not rich and would help with anything that they could. Chaucer goes into telling who is corrupt without using their names which is how he stays safe at saying who they are because he uses examples like the king, the nun, then he tells about the ones
