Ironically, the church people fit this category. It may seem odd that Chaucer would express hate for the religious people since he is very religious himself. However, these church folks did not always do their jobs. In the tales, Chaucer gives the religious characters poor physical and personality traits to help get his point across. The way the religious folk act in The Canterbury Tales is a reflection of how they acted in Chaucer's time period. They were merely con-artists and manipulators. In The Summoner's Tale, a friar is portrayed as a con-man. The friar went from door to door promising people he would pray for them in return for money. In reality, the friar was not really praying for people like he was supposed to be doing. He was scamming them for their money. Even the actual Friar was just as greedy as the Friar in The Summoner's Tale. It was said in the prologue that "He was an easy man in giving penance where he knew he would gain a good pittance." (Chaucer 27 lines 223-224). Chaucer wrote the Friars to be a con-men in The Canterbury Tales because that is how he viewed people who "worked for the church". Chaucer disliked these people so much because they did not help the people or the
Ironically, the church people fit this category. It may seem odd that Chaucer would express hate for the religious people since he is very religious himself. However, these church folks did not always do their jobs. In the tales, Chaucer gives the religious characters poor physical and personality traits to help get his point across. The way the religious folk act in The Canterbury Tales is a reflection of how they acted in Chaucer's time period. They were merely con-artists and manipulators. In The Summoner's Tale, a friar is portrayed as a con-man. The friar went from door to door promising people he would pray for them in return for money. In reality, the friar was not really praying for people like he was supposed to be doing. He was scamming them for their money. Even the actual Friar was just as greedy as the Friar in The Summoner's Tale. It was said in the prologue that "He was an easy man in giving penance where he knew he would gain a good pittance." (Chaucer 27 lines 223-224). Chaucer wrote the Friars to be a con-men in The Canterbury Tales because that is how he viewed people who "worked for the church". Chaucer disliked these people so much because they did not help the people or the