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    October 31‚ 2013 The Canterbury Tales: exposing the corruption of the church? Many of the stories and characters on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales involve the Catholic Church‚ an omnipresent institution in the Middle Ages. The author himself was very aware of the Catholic Liturgy as shown in different passages from this book. “It has been pointed out for many years in various ways by scholars that Chaucer was a Catholic‚ and as such‚ of course‚ posessed some knowledge of the beliefs‚ practices

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    Canterbury Essay One can often figure out what an author’s view is on a society through the voices of the characters he creates. In The Canterbury Tale‚ Chaucer uses many characters to voice his opinion about the church society. He uses many church subjects to voice his opinion about the church‚ such as‚ the Friar‚ the Pardoner‚ the Summoner‚ the Monk‚ and the Parson. All of these church subjects each have an aspect of either good or bad. Honestly I think that Chaucer’s opinion of the church is

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    Money’s Corruption in Canterbury Tales The Marxist Critical Lens was based on a “German philosopher and economist named Karl Marx”. (Marxist Criticism Purdue OWL) The critical lens is looking at literature by examining the socio-economical classes and power that is created by economical resources. It depicts how individuals react with one another and can also show the effects of materialism. Through the many stories of the Canterbury Tale’s many of the characters are intertwined and a main theme

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    Corruption is authority plus monopoly minus transparency. The Canterbury Tales is a book containing a compendium of frame stories told by different characters written by Geoffrey Chaucer throughout the late 1300s. Throughout the novel‚ Chaucer criticizes the injustices that take place in the real world by using characters and their stories as exemplum for the realities of the world. The Pardoner and Summoner are Chaucer’s two most intriguing male characters in The Canterbury Tales. Both characters

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    The Canterbury Tales‚ a collection of tales by Geoffrey Chaucer‚ was written in Middle English at the end of the 14th century (Encyclopaedia Britannica‚ 2011). It is considered to be the best work of literature in English in the Middle Ages (Johnston‚ 1998). Chaucer uses literary devices as no one had ever done. In addition‚ he chose to use English instead of Latin. This masterpiece is structured in a similar way as Bocaccio’s Decameron. The tales are organized within a frame narrative (Encyclopaedia

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    The poem The Canterbury Tales‚ written by Geoffrey Chaucer‚ is an account of a pilgrimage of diverse people traveling together to Canterbury. The pilgrims go to visit the shrine of St. Thomas Beckett to thank God for allowing them to survive the winter. But before the thirty pilgrims leave‚ meet Harry Bailey‚ the owner of the Tabard Inn‚ who proposes they have a contest where each pilgrim will tell four tales on their journey. The winner of this journey will win a free dinner at the Tabard Inn. In

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    in literature is used to expose individuals’ true nature. Geoffrey Chaucer through the Canterbury Tales was aiming to show how each person was corrupt such as‚ the pardoner. Geoffrey Chaucer portrayed The Pardoner in the Canterbury Tales as a corrupt church official to show that the church in the Middle Ages was corrupt. Overall‚ The Pardoner is portrayed as a greedy man. In the prologue of the Canterbury Tales‚ Chaucer states “he made the parson and the rest his apes”‚ showing that he kept some

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    Chaucer clearly describes the pardoner as a parody‚ using satirical language to represent the corruption of the fourteenth century Church. This is evident through his immoral intentions‚ “I preche of no thyng but for coveityse” highlighted by this candid tone and repetition. This is particularly evident as he admits to his own hypocrisy and deceit‚ “For myn entente is nat but for to wynne‚ and nothing for correccioun of synne” emphasised by the rhyming of the juxtaposed nouns. The discourse marker

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    collected money for the church‚ some preached‚ but mostly were fraudulent and extorted money for their own use. In Geoffrey Chaucer “The Canterbury Tales” The Pardoner is trying to help out his people and trick his people into fundings for his own good‚ which is not a good combination. The church created Pardoner’s in Chaucer’s days to gather money from sinners in exchange for forgiveness. This created a healthy income for the church‚ but this also created the corruption within the church. Chaucer’s Pardoner

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    October 2014 Church Corruption in The Canterbury Tales Many of the religious characters in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer have traits that are different than what is traditionally expected of them. This is due to the Catholic Church‚ which ruled most of Europe during the Fourteenth Century‚ being extremely wealthy. While the people suffered from proverty and disease‚ extravagant cathedrals were built in every big city. As a result of this contrast between the wealth of the church and misery

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