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How Does Chaucer Use Social Issues In The Pardoner's Tale

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“(Ackroyd 157). Chaucer never made direct statements about politics, the controversy in the church, wars or basically any events that were happening in his life. He used subtlety, satire and sometimes made light of the events in his life in writing the stories of the Canterbury Tales. .
Chaucer wrote the Canterbury Tales to tell the story of the classes of the people, heath concerns, and the abuse in the Catholic Church. Chaucer uses the class of the people in the Nuns’ Priest Tale. He uses health concerns of that time in the Pardoner’s Tale. He also use the abuses in the Catholic Church in the Friar’s Tale. Geoffrey Chaucer was a brilliant writer, he used things that were happening around him to educate his readers and readers to come.

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