Higher Forces In The Merchant's Tale

In the Merchants’ Tale, Chaucer makes reference to different contextual ideas associated with higher forces and their causal effect on people’s lower urges. The idea of higher forces could be associated with the religious or spiritual beliefs that our actions are fatalistic. The lower urges of people are primal, like love, sex, and money. These ideas imply that the actions of characters in the Merchant Tale are caused by higher urges to present the lower urges people have.

Throughout Medieval times, the Catholic Church had a fear mongering power over the people that God was always watching everyone, and he had control over whether you went to Heaven or Hell. This incentivised people into sticking to strict Catholic rules to appease God, in