Greed In The Pardoner's Tale

In the Middle Ages the Catholic church had a big political role.The fact that it was based more on politics then faith was something that Geoffrey Chaucer thought was wrong. “The Pardoner's Tale” focuses on greed of the characters and the Pardoner's as they used the church to have money and power, revealing the author's characterization of the people in the Middle Ages. They were really politically unstable and greedy. There was a lot of changes to the way society was. Even though it was a really unstable time period a vast majority of people relied on religion as a everyday thing of their lives. Most of the events or special occasions were held in church because of the loyalty towards God. (Ajalma) “In fact 1 out of 10 medieval people became monks or nuns devoting their lives to God.” (Ajalma) Even though Catholicism was a big part of Europe not everyone was a firm believer, but didn't really stand for what they believed was wrong from the church. It all had to do with the fact that they would be punished if they tried to speak against the church and its doings. For the monks selling indulgence …show more content…
So it was very hard for them to know what they should believe because of all these greedy people using it as an excuse to make money and have a better position in society. Women were more open about the bad things they did even though they probably knew it wasn't right but it put money in their hand. Monks and nuns are making lies and sinning to make a living. Spreading lies of the Catholic Church also they didn’t let people learn to read because they knew that someone could ruin their ways. Not saying that all the monks and nuns were overtaken by the greed and place in society. Some actually tried to spread the word of the Catholic church, but because of everything that was being done wrong people didn’t believe them. The one’s that were doing wrong for