What Is Chaucer Like Society

Chaucer has created many characters in the Canterbury tales that he likes and many he dislikes. He is a very critical and detailed writer about these characters. With these characters, Chaucer has created real life issues with religious figures. Chaucer’s has showed how good religious figures can be and how corrupt they can be as well.

He represents corruption as the main theme in his poem The pardoner's tale. The churches are corrupted because of the religious figures. The monks tells people that there is a way to go to heaven, which is to confess to the priests. They lie to people for money (Chaucer).

Therefore, by looking at these various tales in the novel, one can see how Chaucer uses irony to critique society. One way that Chaucer uses this irony is in “The General Prologue” when he describes all the different characters. This allows him to interject various facts

I agree with what Condren’s view on Chaucer. Chaucer shows in the story Chaucer talks about how dynamic life is and how different the people are. Life is a crazy thing but Chaucer makes it really different. He makes everything “fascinating” with everything he talks about has to have a story behind it and the people have stories behind them. He makes the people “fascinating” he talks about how they have rashes and have nasty eyebrows and the way they dress. Nothing is boring with them.

In the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer introduces a variety of characters with a multitude of personalities. From the despicable Summoner to the abrasive Miller, these characters are created with their own personalities and their own human failings. One common fault that characters share is hypocrisy. From pretending to be wealthy to cheating the poor out of money, hypocritical tendencies are abundant in the Canterbury Tales. Throughout the story, Chaucer ridicules the human criticizes the human failing of hypocrisy through the examples of the Pardoner, the Merchant, and the Friar.

In his tales Chaucer describes men as idiots,foolish,and blindly.He says this because that's how men acted during his time like jerks .I would agree with him because what he says in his tales the men sound just as he described them.Also in his tales his shows many times that men don't have respect for the women.It also seems like during this time all men were drinking ,which made them look more like idiots.In the Miller's tale Chaucer describes the carpenter as a jealousy,drinking person. And how the women saw them as idiots.On her blog site Anne Marie Wilborn says”In my opinion, however, the men who no longer adhere to the codes of chivalry and honor are most often depicted as the idiots. The men who still adhere to those codes are the good

Chaucer provides multiple characters within the journey. He showed a lot of different individuals that are quite useful to the group. People, such as the nuns, who would help on the religious journey. The doctor who would help with anybody who is sick. People with handy man or somewhat related skills such as the carpenter, and a merchant.

In the medieval age there are norms that people in a society are supposed to abide by. In this time, there was a lot of wars dividing the nations and changed how people lived. The black plague also devastated the nation in many ways. During this time, if you weren't a noble or part of the church, then you didn't really have any power or voice in your society. Chaucer uses elements of the other or otherness to satire religion, social structure, and patriarchal institutions to show how corrupt these groups are in hope to change people’s mind about these groups and institutions.

It is up to the reader to see these themes and take them to heart as they read on in the tales, since Chaucer isn't afraid of using his satire of the times and people in order to tell a real tale on the realities of how society functioned during the medieval times. While this is fiction, Chaucer intended to put in as many subtle or or obvious views and ideals as possible with as little censoring as he could. Thankfully, he succeeded in such a controversial book, but while still being amusing and deep for fiction of the time.

Let’s start with Chaucer’s attack against the hierarchy. The hierarchy is the church and its maltreatment was trying to get the people to give the people running the church more money with false advertising. What would happen is that the people from the church would go out and tell people that they have sinned and needed to be blessed. The people would go to the church, give the church’s people money, and then be “blessed.” It was obvious which churches were pulling this stunt. Chaucer made two (three technically, but two only need to be pointed out.) characters that are from churches. There is the pardoner, that basically confess to pulling this stunt, and the monk, which was actually giving up the

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales reflects Britain history too. The Middle Ages were a time of political troubles, and social change. First, religion is important because the Church was the center of people's lives. Pilgrimages were very popular too because they allowed people to express their devotion to God. This is the reason why Chaucer's pilgrims as he calls them are going from London to the cathedral at Canterbury. The pilgrims are all from different walks of life and each tells a story related to his profession. The stories kind of illustrate the struggles between the different classes in society.

We cannot read the CT as an honest criticism of 14th century English society without examining the entire picture - and this picture includes Chaucer's ideological contradiction. To better understand Chaucer's real message - criticizing the Three Estates system in order to encourage acceptance of his own Estate, the merchant or middle class - I will briefly discuss the Three Estates system and Chaucer's role in the system's shift to include a Fourth Estate (and how this shift influenced the CT). Then I will examine four stories from the CT (The Wife of Bath's Prologue, The Friar's Tale, The Summoner's Tale, and The Pardoner's Tale) in which Chaucer seems to denounce elements of the social paradigm. I will then examine four stories from the CT (The Knight's Tale, The Man of Law's Tale, The Second Nun's Tale, and The Parson's Tale) in which Chaucer contradicts his criticism of his society. Finally, I will discuss how the dominant social paradigm influenced Chaucer's view of the lower classes, and how the classist structure led to ideological contradictions within the CT. Before we discuss Chaucer's ideological contradictions, however, we must first examine the system he was attempting to change, the Three Estate system.

Chaucer does not only the tale to show off his writing abilities -- it is not simply a display of his incredible versatility as an author.  Chaucer uses this tale to contrast his anti-church sentiments within the Canterbury Tales; it shows his great respect for spiritual beliefs and benefits him in making his argument against the Church.  In essence, Chaucer is clearly defending his anti-secular position by showing his reverence and devotion to spirituality; his problems lie with the Church, not the faith. While very well known for his sardonic criticism of the Church, he is less often acknowledged for his appreciation and respect for the religion itself.

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In his description of other pilgrims, Chaucer points out how the lack of morality within the Church is echoed by the rest of society. Several pilgrims have non-religious reasons for going on the pilgrimage. The Wife of Bath, for instance, is looking for her sixth husband, hoping that “Som Cristen man shal wed me [her] anoon” (WBT 54). Many of the characters have little or no regard for others, but instead are focused only on their own desires. The Franklin is so gluttonous that “It snewed [snows] in his hous of mete and drinke, / Of alle daintees that men coude thinke” (GP 347-8). Chaucer even suggests that the Sergeant at Law, a prominent figure in society, “seemed bisier than he was” (GP 324). The corruption of the Church has, according to Chaucer, affected the way individuals act. If the Church is immoral it is not surprising that much of society mirrors the Church’s immoral actions. The Parson cleverly describes the effect of a lack of morality in the leaders of society by comparing the corruption of individuals to the rusting of metals: “if gold ruste, what shal iren do? / For if a preest be foul, on whom we truste, / No wonder is a lewed man to ruste” (GP 502-4). Chaucer attacks not only the behaviour of the Church officials but also the immorality of the laypeople in Medieval society.