The Most Immoral Pardoner The Pardoner is the most immoral character of the clergy in the Canterbury Tales prologue by Geoffrey Chaucer. The Pardoner breaks many vows put in place by the clergy for all clergy members to follow. The vow of poverty for instance he breaks by having lots of money from pardons, “His wallet lay before him on his lap, brimful of pardons come from rome” (Chaucer 706-707). He has a load of money in his wallet, not a way to live in a poverty if you think about it. He can’t really break the vow of chastity in the text it says, “I judge he was a gelding or a mare.” (Chaucer 711). This implies that he is castrated like a horse can be. This means he can’t break this vow due to his lack of testicles. Now the vow of obedience
