Church is a central role that plays in a lot of people’s lives but money makes people ruin good things. The Canterbury tales has a lot of characters who aren’t very religious or lie about being religious. Church corruption is when is when people steal money or go to church for their own personal purpose. In the Canterbury tales the characters who are not religious or are apart of the church for personal gain are the Pardoner, The Monk, and the Friar. In the prologue of the Canterbury tales Chaucer Illuminates church corruption through his characters The Pardoner who does misdeeds and deceives people, The Monk who steal money from church to be able to pay for hunting items, and also the Friar who takes money and has sexual relationships with
