In the canterbury tales the social class of medieval society reveal that the author's purpose is to describe the character's reputation and attributes. The purpose for this is to get a good detailed idea on how people were in the medieval stage of time. The author describes their reputation, clothing, appearance and there flaws in the canterbury tales. But in this story the author takes the character's role and changes it so its nothing like that role, this is called satire. For example, if u think of a Nun, you would describe her as a very proper and godly woman that lives very minimally in life. But by using satire this nun would act almost complete opposite by doing things that not a normal nun would do. She would be acting very ungodly
