Canterbury Tales Satire

Satire is defined as the use of humor, exaggeration, or irony to describe someone. In “The Canterbury Tales” written by Geoffrey Chaucer, satire is used often. CHaucer uses satire to describe a Prioress (nun), a Cook, and a Friar. Compared to these people today, the features Chaucer gives them do not match up.
To begin with, Chaucer uses satire to describe a nun. “Her way of smiling very simple and coy” (Chaucer 123). By saying this, he is saying that the nun is flirtatious. A nun is a woman who is supposed to be married to the church. This meaning she can have no other relationship other than with god. Also, “Another Nun the secretary at her cell, was riding with her, and three Priests as well” This is an example of Satire because he is stating that a nun is something they are not or should not be. Also, Chaucer wrote “She use to weep but if she saw a mouse caught in a trap, if it were dead or bleeding. And she had little dogs she would be feeding with roasted flesh, or milk, or fine white bread” (Chaucer 148-151). This is saying that the nun felt bad if she say a dead mouse but she fed her dog meat which came from a dead animal. This is satirized because she can not feel bad for a dead animal when she is feeding a dead animal to her dogs. A nun today would not feed her dog a dead animal if she felt bad for a dead mouse. Another example of why the prioress is satirized in “The Canterbury Tales” is because chaucer says she wore a golden brooch that stated “Amor VIncit Omnia” (Chaucer 166). That quote translates to “love conquers all.” Sense a nun is someone who is
By reading this people can tell it is satirized because they compare what he wrote to ow those people are now and they are exact opposites. That is mostly the point of writing using satire. It is to make the person look bad and make them the opposite of what they should