“There were once two roads, and I took the one less traveled… AND IT HURT!” This is a fantastic quote by the Kid President, it expresses the road that is less traveled is not easy and painless. In fact it is the complete opposite. This is the road that Chaucer chooses to go down when he started openly attacking certain believes of the world. Through Chaucer’s satire writing he openly attacks the church and the hypocrisy within, the patriarchy and the idea that men are above women, and the system of nobility and the idea the men are in charge and that nobility is passed down not earned. To begin with, Chaucer in his poems the Pardoner’s Tale attacks the church. This is a big risk; it says in the article Church in the Middle Ages by Alixe that “The Church was the single most dominant institution in medieval life, its influence pervading almost every aspect of people's lives”. This means that the church had full control
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Chaucer’s reasoning to attack the church were very obvious now, However in the middle ages it was very absurd to attack the church. He attacks the church calling it a hypocritical system that works only for itself. In the Pardoner’s Tale, Chaucer has a pardoner, or in other words a man that works for the church say aloud that he “preach(s) for nothing but for greed of
Chaucer’s reasoning to attack the church were very obvious now, However in the middle ages it was very absurd to attack the church. He attacks the church calling it a hypocritical system that works only for itself. In the Pardoner’s Tale, Chaucer has a pardoner, or in other words a man that works for the church say aloud that he “preach(s) for nothing but for greed of